Jeffrey E. Hanes
Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Associate Professor, History
Phone: (541) 346-4837
Email: hanes@uoregon.edu
Jeffrey Hanes, director of the Center for Asian Pacific Studies, is professor of modern Japanese history. He specializes in urban planning and history with a special interest in Japanese urban culture. He is the author of The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka (University of California Press, 2002), which has also been published in Japanese as Shutai toshite no Toshi (Keiso Shobo, 2007). He is the co-editor with Yamaji Hidetoshi of Image and Identity: Rethinking Japanese Cultural History (RIEB, Kobe University, 2005). Other recent publications include "The Tyranny of Progress: Cities and Change in the 21st Century (Journal of Policy Science, Kyoto, 2008) and "Pacific Crossings? Urban Progressivism in Modern Japan" in Pierre Yves-Saunier and Shane Ewen, eds., Another Global City: Historical Exploration into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850-2000 (Palgrave macmillan, 2008). He is currently working on two book manuscripts: Capital of Water, Capital of Smoke: The Production and Consumption of Urban Space in Osaka, and Envisioning Cities: A History of Urban Planning and Policy Ideas in Modern Japan.
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