Joseph Seeley
@josephaseeley.bsky.social
assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Recently published new book Border of Water and Ice is OA! https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49
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Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
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Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
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November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
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Excited to dive into this newly published history of Pusan/Fukuoka as "imperial region" bound together by the fluid borderland of the Tsushima Strait. Many congrats to @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social , who will be hosting for a book talk @modernjapanhist.bsky.social in May! mjha.org/event-6433046
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited to dive into this newly published history of Pusan/Fukuoka as "imperial region" bound together by the fluid borderland of the Tsushima Strait. Many congrats to @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social , who will be hosting for a book talk @modernjapanhist.bsky.social in May! mjha.org/event-6433046
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❄️ Our Winter Sale is here!
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November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
❄️ Our Winter Sale is here!
Use the code 09WINTER and get 44% off from November 10 to December 5, 2025. 📚
🔗Access to US & Canada: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/
🔗Access to the rest of the world: mngbookshop.co.uk/publisher/co...
Order your next favorite title now!
Use the code 09WINTER and get 44% off from November 10 to December 5, 2025. 📚
🔗Access to US & Canada: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/
🔗Access to the rest of the world: mngbookshop.co.uk/publisher/co...
Order your next favorite title now!
Critiques of Meiji-era Japanese militarism/colonialism? Icy border crossings? Even tigers? Man, the anime Golden Kamuy hits all of the right buttons for me.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Critiques of Meiji-era Japanese militarism/colonialism? Icy border crossings? Even tigers? Man, the anime Golden Kamuy hits all of the right buttons for me.
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@cornellupress.bsky.social is having an amazing sale atm — 44% off until 12/5, including books by @josephaseeley.bsky.social , @timothymyang.bsky.social , and myself, among others!
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@cornellupress.bsky.social is having an amazing sale atm — 44% off until 12/5, including books by @josephaseeley.bsky.social , @timothymyang.bsky.social , and myself, among others!
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In twelve hours!
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In twelve hours!
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
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This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!
Excited to dig into Hannah Shepherd's new book, out in December from UC Press:
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October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!
Not even an unusually heavy rain could dim my excitement at returning to my alma mater today! 6년만에 스탠포드. 懐かしすぎる.
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Not even an unusually heavy rain could dim my excitement at returning to my alma mater today! 6년만에 스탠포드. 懐かしすぎる.
Highly idiosyncratic Hangul spelling of the word "조선" (Korea) on the cover of a 1930 colonial Korean magazine. Almost looks like a completely different script.
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Highly idiosyncratic Hangul spelling of the word "조선" (Korea) on the cover of a 1930 colonial Korean magazine. Almost looks like a completely different script.
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I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
Check out Jack Bouchard's review of "Oceanic Japan: The Archipelago in Pacific and Global History," edited by Stefan Huebner, Nadin Heé, Ian J. Miller, and William M. Tsutsui, published in 2024 by University of Hawai'i Press; now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am please to announce that this is the 1000th review that I have facilitated for H-Environment! Thank you so much to all of the reviewers who make this position such a pleasure! #envhist #envhum #ecrocrit #envphil #aghist #oceanhist #conservation #sustainability #plantstudies #animalhist #energy 🏞️
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Needed some happy news, so I was thrilled to see that both of my panels had been accepted for next year's @asianstudies.org conference! Look forward to seeing Asian Studies friends and colleagues in Vancouver!
September 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Needed some happy news, so I was thrilled to see that both of my panels had been accepted for next year's @asianstudies.org conference! Look forward to seeing Asian Studies friends and colleagues in Vancouver!
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job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
Excited to be returning to my PhD alma mater (first time since graduation) for a book talk in a few weeks!
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September 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Excited to be returning to my PhD alma mater (first time since graduation) for a book talk in a few weeks!
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ceas.stanford.edu/events/borde...
An influential Koreanist once described Soviet-occupied North Korea as an "isle of tranquility," but the stories of those who fled South after Korea's 1945 division suggest otherwise. Yumi Moon’s chapter in this great new volume helpfully elucidates this refugee experience.
September 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
An influential Koreanist once described Soviet-occupied North Korea as an "isle of tranquility," but the stories of those who fled South after Korea's 1945 division suggest otherwise. Yumi Moon’s chapter in this great new volume helpfully elucidates this refugee experience.
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A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
“August Journalism” Studies: Lessons in World War II Reporting from Japan’s Season of Remembrance - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
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September 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A new essay from me synthesizing the rich body of media criticism in Japanese focused on the practice of "August journalism" (八月ジャーナリズム): the tendency for rehearsed, compressed, and hollowed-out coverage of war memory each August.
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
apjjf.org/2025/9/fedman
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On Monday!
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
September 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On Monday!
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia).
Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996
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My review of BREAKNECK, by Dan Wang, an insightful and balanced look at the Chinese engineering state—both its strengths and shortcomings—that offers a much-needed contrast to fear-mongering China books.
Bookshelf: Breakneck
The first copy of Breakneck I received looked like the quintessential fear-mongering China book. Against an inky black background a red graphic appeared—somewhat difficult to identify, but it seeme…
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August 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My review of BREAKNECK, by Dan Wang, an insightful and balanced look at the Chinese engineering state—both its strengths and shortcomings—that offers a much-needed contrast to fear-mongering China books.
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So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
Published today: 'Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales', by Andrew McTominey bit.ly/4n4LkxB
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
'Waterscapes' is the 23rd title in the Society's New Historical perspectives book series, published @uolpress.bsky.social. Available free Open Access and in print 1/2
August 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So I've written a book! Waterscapes is about how impactful our need for water is on the environment and people. It's also about the ways in which infrastructure projects can impact place for good or bad.
As the Osaka Expo remains ongoing, for those interested in the deeper history of exhibitions in Japan, please check out this online book talk event I am moderating in less than two weeks!
mjha.org/event-6239996
mjha.org/event-6239996
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
As the Osaka Expo remains ongoing, for those interested in the deeper history of exhibitions in Japan, please check out this online book talk event I am moderating in less than two weeks!
mjha.org/event-6239996
mjha.org/event-6239996