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Gregory M. Pflugfelder
Associate Professor
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
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Biography
Gregory Pflugfelder, associate professor (EALAC), specializes in early modern and modern Japanese history. He received his B.A. from Harvard (1981), his M.A. from Waseda (1984), and his Ph.D. from Stanford (1996). His books include Seiji to Daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken undôshi [Politics and the Kitchen: A History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in Akita Prefecture] (1986), awarded the Yamakawa Kikue Prize, and Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950 (1999), which received honorable mention for the John Boswell Prize of the Committee on Lesbian and Gay History. A collection of essays, JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life, co-edited with Brett L. Walker, was published in 2006. His current work engages the historical construction of masculinities, the history of the body, and representations of monstrosity.
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