Curriculum Vitae PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER Department of History, Texas State University, 601 University Drive San Marcos, TX 78666-4616 office: 512/245-2104; fax: 512/245-3043 email: ps30@txstate.edu EDUCATION PH.D., ASIAN CULTURES AND LANGUAGES, May 2004 Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Dissertation: Looking to the Past, Looking to the Future: The Localization of Japanese Historic Preservation, 1950 1975 M.A., ASIAN CULTURES AND LANGUAGES, December 1998 Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Thesis: Touring the Bomb Sites: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Guidebooks M.A., COMMUNICATIONS, May 1989 The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA B.A., ENGLISH LITERATURE, May 1984 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE SENIOR LECTURER, Department of History Texas State University, San Marcos (2007 present) LECTURER, Department of History Texas State University, San Marcos (2004 2007) Courses Taught: Western Civilization, Origins to 1715 / Western Civilization After 1715 World Civilizations up to the Sixteenth Century / World Civilizations from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Modern Japan, 1600 to the Present Empire and Identity in Central Asia The History of Postwar Japan The Japanese Urban Experience Community Transformation and Tradition: Tourism in East Asia American History Through Memoir: From the End of Reconstruction to the Present Day Senior Seminar in International Studies
PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER 2 RESEARCH FELLOW, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo (June July 2016) Research and Outreach Responsibilities: Continuing research on my monograph on Japanese heritage preservation, I also took part in various events and meetings sponsored by the Institute, including public lectures and social occasions with faculty and students from a variety of Tokyo-area universities. I attended the annual Asian Studies in Japan Conference at the International Christian University, Tokyo, traveled to see several historic sites relevant to my research and teaching, and presented my own work in a full-day workshop/conference in Kyoto. ROBERT AND LISA SAINSBURY FELLOW, The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, UK (January July 2013) Research and Outreach Responsibilities: While focused primarily on research toward the completion of a monograph charting the growth of townscape preservation activities in postwar Japan, I also organized and participated in Sainsbury Institute workshops on heritage protection, offered a public lecture on changing views of culture in 1940s and 1950s Japan, and presented recent research to the Japan Research Centre at SOAS/University of London. LECTURER, Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas at Austin (January 2004 May 2007) Courses Taught: The Postwar Japanese Film Japanese New Wave(s) History and the Chinese Film A History of the Japanese Film: Styles, Genres, Movements Space and Place in the East Asian Film The New Film in Hong Kong, Taiwan, China OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE COMMISSIONING EDITOR, Academic & General Unit, Northeast Asia, Oxford University Press (Hong Kong) Ltd., Hong Kong and Austin (1993 1998) EDITOR, SR Books, Scholarly Resources Inc., Wilmington, DE (1991 1992) GENERAL MANAGER, Zoland Books Inc., Cambridge, MA (1989 1990) FREELANCE EDITOR, Philadelphia, PA, Shatin, Hong Kong, Austin, TX (May 1986 December 2003) ASSOCIATE EDITOR, The American Poetry Review, Philadelphia, PA (1984 1989)
PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER 3 SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Siegenthaler, Peter. 2015. Review Essay: Urban Regeneration and Community Survival in Postwar Japan. History Workshop Journal 80.1: 259 268.. 2010. Architecture, Folklore Studies, and Cultural Democracy: Nagakura Saburô and Hida Minzoku-mura. In Christoph Brumann and Rupert A. Cox, eds., Making Japanese Heritage. London: Routledge.. 2008. Development for Preservation: Localizing Collective Memory in 1960s Kanazawa. In Sven Saaler and Wolfgang Schwentker, eds., The Power of Memory in Modern Japan. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental.. 2003. Creation Myths for the Preservation of Tsumago Post-town. Planning Forum 9: 28 45.. 2002. Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Guidebooks. Annals of Tourism Research 29.4: 1112 1138.. 1999a. The Ningen Kokuhô: A New Symbol for the Japanese Nation. Andon: Bulletin of the Society for Japanese Art 62: 3 16.. 1999b. Japanese Domestic Tourism and the Search for National Identity. The CUHK Journal of Humanities 3: 178 95. Wilkins, Karin G., and Peter Siegenthaler. 1997. Media and Identity in Hong Kong. Peace Review 9.4: 509 13. SCHOLARLY REVIEWS Siegenthaler, Peter. 2016. Review of Louise Scott, Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan. Pacific Affairs 89.2: 439 441.. 2010. Review of Scott Laderman, Tours of Vietnam: War, Travel Guides, and Memory. Pacific Historical Review 79.2: 312 13.. 2005. Review of Jeffrey Hanes, The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka, Journal of Oriental Studies (Hong Kong) 39.2: 254 256.. 2000. Review of Kappa Senoh, A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan, Persimmon: Asian Literature, Arts, and Culture 1.2: 94 6. Moore, Shannon, and Peter Siegenthaler. 1999. The Kodô Taiko Drum Troupe in Austin: 5 February 1999. Theatre InSight 10.1: 85 6. SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS Peter Siegenthaler. Nationalism and Dissent in Early Mass Tourism: Shimazaki Tôson and the Nakasendô. International Workshop on Tourism, Japan, and the Asia- Pacific War. Doshisha Women s University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2016.
PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER 4 Is There a Japanese Way of Preserving Cultural Heritage? European Association for Japanese Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2014.. Preserving Culture on the Margins: Toyama Prefecture in the Postwar Era. A Third Thursday Lecture for the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, UK, June 2013.. Tourism and the Religious Landscape of Hida-Takayama. Invited talk in the Sainsbury Institute-sponsored workshop, The Archaeology of Ritual and Approaches to Religious Geography: Landscapes and Cityscapes of the Sacred in Japan and Europe, Tübingen, Germany, March 2013.. Morito Tatsuo s Bunka Kokka-ron : The State, the Citizen, and Democratic Culture in Early Postwar Japan. Talk for the Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK, February 2013.. Morito Tatsuo s 1946 Bunka Kokka-ron: State Power, the Citizen, and the Nation of Culture in the Postwar Era. Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March 2012.. Morito Tatsuo s 1946 Bunka Kokka-ron: State Power, Democracy, and the Nation of Culture in the Postwar Era. European Association for Japanese Studies, Talinn, Estonia, August 2011.. Reading Heritage Townscapes: Preservation, History, and the Visual in 1960s Japan. Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Austin, Texas, October 2009.. Making the Buildings of Tsumago Speak to the Nation: Townscape Preservation in 1960s Japan. European Association for Japanese Studies, Lecce, Italy, September 2008.. Geography, Democracy, Culture, Identity: Establishing Hozon-kai in Toyama Prefecture. Association for Asian Studies, March 2008.. Democracy, Cultural Protection, and Local Identity: Japan after the Allied Occupation. World History Association of Texas, Austin, Texas, February 2008.. Cultural Democracy at the Grass Roots: Preservation Societies in Toyama Prefecture, 1950 1955. American Historical Association, Atlanta GA, January 2007.. What s So Local about Local Preservation? Japanese Folk Houses in the Postwar Era. World History Association of Texas, Seguin, Texas, February 2006.. Municipal Planning and Heritage Tourism: Kanazawa s Search for Local Autonomy in the 1960s. Paper presented to the interdisciplinary conference, On Voyage: New Directions in Tourism Theory, University of California at Berkeley, October 2005.. Bunka-zai no Minshu-ka: Folk Houses and the Democratization of Culture in Early Postwar Japan. Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March April 2005.. Creation Myths for the Preservation of Tsumago Post-town. Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2001.
PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER 5. The Flash of the Bomb and Japan s Bright Future: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Guidebooks. Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 2000. SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS University Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University, 2010, 2011 Golden Apple award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Liberal Arts and University Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University, 2009 Participant, 2000 2001 SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop Social Science and Area Studies Research Grant, The University of Texas Office of Graduate Studies and the Ford Foundation, Summer 1999 Teaching Excellence Award, 1998 1999, The University of Texas at Austin First Prize, Heinz Kaempfer Fund 1997 essay contest on Japanese arts and crafts PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS Siegenthaler, Peter. Workshop organizer, Cultural preservation at the grass roots: How have citizens, local politicians, artisans, artists, and academics engaged with heritage sites, objects, and practices in postwar Japan? The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, UK, July 2013. Panel organizer and chair, The Spaces of Democracy in Postwar Japan, at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada, March 2012. Panel organizer, History and the Visual in Postwar Japan, at the annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, Austin, October 2009. Panel organizer, Life on the Margins in 1950s Japan, at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, April 2008. Panel organizer, Constructing and Contesting the Cultural Nation : Defining Citizenship in Postwar Japan, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 2007. Panel organizer and chair, How to Construct the Bunka Kokka? Contestations of Cultural Democracy in Early Postwar Japan, at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March April 2005. Border Crossings panel co-organizer, Architectural Preservation in Asia: Local Citizens as Activists and Stakeholders, at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, March 2001 Author of desk reviews in Asian history, heritage protection, dark tourism, and Asian tourism for Annals of Tourism Research and Asia Pacific World Member of the Association for Asian Studies, European Association for Japanese Studies, World History Association of Texas, and the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
PETER DAVID SIEGENTHALER 6 Between 1989 and the present, author of several works of poetry and literary reviews in Osiris, Compound Eye, Pen International, and lift