Ito Koji

イトウコウジ | Ito Koji

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Assistant Professor

Research field (5)： Local studies , History - Europe/America , Sociology/history of science and technology , Environmental policy and society , International relations

Research keywords (21)： Northern Sea , Twentieth Century , International Law (Law of the Sea) , Fisheries Oceanography , Science and Technology , Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) , Resource Extractive Colonialism , Conservation , Salmon , Fisheries , Marine Environment , Borderland , North Pacific and the Bering Sea , Alaska , Global History , Transnationalism , Indigenous History , Japanese Imperialism , US Imperialism , History of US-Japan Relations , US Diplomatic History

Research theme for competitive and other funds (2)：

2024 - 2027 東アジア海域・北太平洋をめぐる「新しい海洋史」--海洋観・海洋資源・海洋知
2024 - 2025 冷戦変容と東アジアの学知:1965~1970年代に焦点を当てて

Papers (4)：

The Making of an American Ichthyological Empire: How The Structure of Perpetual Exploitation of Bristol Bay Salmon Developed in Southwest Alaska, 1883-1970s. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois. 2021
Koji Ito. Contesting Alaskan Salmon: Fishing Rights, Scientific Knowledge, and a U.S.-Japanese Fishery Dispute in Bristol Bay in the 1930s. Japanese Journal of American Studies. 2020. 31. 179-200
Koji Ito. Politics in the Dark: An Interpretation of Japan-U.S. War Crisis over Hawaii in 1897. Doshisha American Studies Supplement. 2013. 20. 20. 53-72
The Price of National Prestige: An Interpretation of the Japan-U.S. Confrontation over Hawaii at the Turn of the Century. American Review. 2012. 46. 46. 33-50

MISC (1)：

Koji Ito. (Book Review) Jeannie N. Shinozuka, Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022). History: Reviews of New Books. 2023. 51. 2. 28-30

Books (6)：

領海・漁業・外交-19~20世紀の海洋への新視点-
晃洋書房 2023 ISBN:4771037418
Let’s Learn English through Various Subjects: From Culture to SDGs
University Education Press 2022 ISBN:9784866922034
Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy
Rowman & Littlefield 2015 ISBN:9781442250680
アメリカ合衆国の連邦休日を英語で学ぼう
大学教育出版 2014 ISBN:9784864292917
Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West
SAGE Reference/CQ Press 2013 ISBN:9781608719099

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Lectures and oral presentations (22)：

Japan’s Salmon Fisheries and Its Construction of an Ecological Empire in the Northern Sea before the Second World War
(On Biodiversity: History, Heritage, and Research in Asia (National University of Singapore) 2023)
The Pacific as an Object of Inquiry and Control: Japanese Fisheries Scientists and Their Dream of Predictable Pelagic Fisheries before World War II
(International Workshop on Pacific Histories across Species and Borders (Osaka University) 2023)
Efforts to Create Ecological Maps: The Transformation of Salmon Fisheries in the North Pacific and the Rise of Fisheries Science during the Interwar Era
(Workshop for American History in Kansai 2023)
The Making of a Sockeye Salmon-Centered ecosystem in Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the Birth of an American Ichthyological Empire during the Interwar Period
(56th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for American Studies 2022)
Saving Salmon with Western Science: The Fisheries Crisis of 1919 and the Introduction of the “Predator Control” and “Stream Improvement” Projects in Southwest Alaska
(Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange 2022)

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Education (4)：

2014 - 2021 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of History (Ph.D. Program)
2012 - 2013 University of Washington at Seattle History (Exchange Program)
2008 - 2010 Osaka University Graduate School of Language and Culture (MA Program)
2004 - 2008 Osaka University School of Foreign Studies (BA Program)

Professional career (3)：

Ph.D. (History) (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
MA (Osaka University)
BA (Osaka University)

Work history (6)：

2022/04 - 現在 Osaka University Graduate School of Humanities Assistant Professor
2021/04 - 2022/03 Hagoromo University of International Studies Department of Human Life Studies Assistant Professor
2019/08 - 2020/05 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Standalone Teaching Assistant (HIST 259: Global History of World War II)
2019/01 - 2019/05 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Teaching Assistant (HIST 274: US and the World since 1917 by Prof. Kristin Hoganson)
2018/08 - 2018/12 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign History Teaching Assistant (HIST 100: Global History by Prof. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi)

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Committee career (8)：

2024/10 - 現在 Japanese Association for American Studies Councillor
2024/07 - 現在 Japanese Association for American Studies Member of the International Committee
2024/04 - 現在 Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange President
2023/01 - 2024/03 Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange Secretary
2020/03 - 2022/06 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Graduate Student Committee Member

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Association Membership(s) (8)：

Workshop for American History in Kansai , Kansai Forum for Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange , Association for Asian Studies , Organization of American Historians , American Historical Association , Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations , Japanese Association for American History , Japanese Association for American Studies

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