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1 JEREMY A. YELLEN Room 412, Leung Kau Kui Building Department of Japanese Studies The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor (tenure track), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Japanese Studies, August 2014-present Lecturer, Boston University, Department of History, Spring 2014 EDUCATION Ph.D. Harvard University, Department of History, 2012 Dissertation: The Two Pacific Wars: Order and Independence in Japan, Burma, and the Philippines, Advisor: Andrew Gordon A.M. Harvard University, Department of History, 2008 M.A. University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies, 2005 B.A. Northwestern University, History, 1999 RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS Harvard University, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Associate in Research, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Social Science, Tokyo, Visiting Foreign Researcher on Fulbright IIE grant Ateneo de Manila University, Ateneo Center for Asian Studies, Manila, 2011 Ateneo Center for Asian Studies Fellow, 2011 PUBLICATIONS Into the Tiger s Den: Japan and the Tripartite Pact, Forthcoming in the Journal of Contemporary History (2015). Shinzo Abe s Constitutional Ambitions, The Diplomat, June 12, The Specter of Revolution: Reconsidering Japan s Decision to Surrender, The International History Review, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar. 2013), Yellen, 1

2 H-Diplo Article Review: Masuda Hajimu. Fear of World War III: Social Politics of Japan s Rearmament and Peace Movements, Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 47, No. 3 (2012), TRANSLATIONS Sakamoto Yūichirō. War Finance Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Forthcoming. IN PROGRESS Japan s New Deal for Asia, To be submitted to Journal of Japanese Studies in July The Two Pacific Wars: Order and Independence in Japan s Hybrid Empire. Book manuscript to be submitted to a major academic press. INTERVIEWS Japan s Security Policy Shift: A Blow to Ties with East Asia. Deutsche Welle interview, July 1, CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED TALKS Nationalism as Internationalism in 1940s Japan. Presented at Nationalism in Rising Powers, McGill University, Montreal, May 9, Panel Organizer: Empire in Motion: New Directions in the Study of the Japanese Empire. Presented paper, Empire as Political Vision: Japan s Co-Prosperity Sphere, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Chicago, IL, Mar , Strange Partners: Germany, Japan and the German Alliance, Invited lecture for the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences, the University of Hong Kong, Feb. 10, Discussant (in absentia): Yoneyuki Sugita, A Reinterpretation of the Yoshida Doctrine, Legacies of World War II, Part 2, Osaka University, Dec , Understanding Japanese Imperialism. Invited lecture, Norwich University, March 21, Japan s Wartime Empire Re-imagined. Invited lecture for the Department of Japanese Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 6, Japan s Hybrid Empire: The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Seminar on Modern Japan, Columbia University, February 27, Japan s New Deal for Asia, Invited lecture for the Department of History, City College of New York, February 10, Yellen, 2

3 Constructing Empire. Invited lecture for the Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program, Nagoya University, December 13, The Japanese Empire. Primary Source workshop, Imperialism in East and Southeast Asia. Watertown, MA, November 13, Panel Organizer: Ghosts of Empire: Imperial Remnants across Postcolonial Asia. Presented paper, Ghosts of Imperial Japan: State Building in Burma and the Philippines. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. San Diego, CA, March 21-24, Japan s New Deal for Asia, Invited talk for the Department of Japanese Studies, the National University of Singapore, March 5, Into the Tiger s Den: The Birth of Japan s Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Drift to Pearl Harbor. Invited talk for the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Japan Forum, Harvard University. December 7, Anti-Westernism, Germany, and Japan s Co-Prosperity Sphere. Invited talk for the Naval Postgraduate School. November 14, Liberal Internationalism and its Discontents: Yabe Teiji s New Order in the Pacific War. Presented in the panel Reconsidering Liberalism in Wartime Japan at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Toronto, March 15 18, Reconsidering Japan s Decision to Surrender. Japanese History Group, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo. June 24, Wartime Visions of Order in East Asia: Japan and the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University. April 2, Imagining the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Delivered at Harvard University, January 26, SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 2011 Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Supplementary Dissertation Grant Fulbright Institute of International Education (IIE) Research Fellow Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship (declined) Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship (declined) Sosland Family Fellowship Graduate Award for High Scholarship, University of Washington 2005 Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Yellen, 3

4 TEACHING EXPERIENCE The Chinese University of Hong Kong Special Topics in Japanese Studies: Graduate Seminar, Spring 2015 Introduction to Japanese Studies, Fall 2014 Research-Based Final Year Project, Fall 2014; Spring 2015 Boston University The Samurai in Myth and History, Spring 2014 Introduction to Modern Japanese History, Spring 2014 Harvard University Japan and World War II in Asia, Spring 2013 Japan: Tradition and Transformation, Spring 2009 Head Teaching Fellow (Main Instructors: Andrew Gordon and Ethan Segal) Imperial Japan and the United States, Fall 2008 Teaching Fellow (Main Instructor: Andrew Gordon) World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II, Fall 2008 Teaching Fellow (Main Instructor: Charles Maier) ADVISING EXPERIENCE Chinese University of Hong Kong Course Coordinator, Student Final Year Research Projects, Harvard University Non-Resident Tutor in History, Pforzheimer House, Harvard College, Writing Tutor, Pforzheimer House, Harvard College, Student Coordinator, Tokyo, Summer 2010; Summer 2011 Tutor, History 99: Senior Thesis, Academic Year LANGUAGES Reading: Japanese, Chinese, Spanish Speaking: Japanese (fluent) RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Book Review Assistant Editor at the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Research Associate, Japan, at Greenmantle LLC, Research Associate at The National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, WA, Yellen, 4

5 Assistant English Teacher on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program, Aichi, Japan, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Director, Comparative Asian Research Network (CARN) lecture series, Article Referee, The Middle Ground Journal, 2013 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association Association for Asian Studies Yellen, 5