Background

Hiroshi Kitamura received a B.A. in American Studies from Carleton College (1995), and an M.A. (1997) and Ph.D. (2004) in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He arrived at William and Mary in 2004, after teaching U.S. and world history as a visiting assistant professor at SUNY-Oswego. Hiroshi specializes in the history of U.S.-foreign relations, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural interactions between East Asia and the United States since the late 19th century. He teaches classes on global U.S. history, U.S.-foreign relations, the nuclear world, and film history. Hiroshi's essays and articles have appeared in American Quarterly, American Studies International, Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, eds., Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange (British Film Institute), Jeffrey A. Engel, ed., Lives and Consequences: The Local Impact of the Cold War (Stanford, forthcoming), among other publications. He has also co-authored a Japanese-language book on U.S. college life, titled Tadaima Amerika ryugakuchu [I am Studying in America Now] (Tokyo: Soshisha, 1994). His book on Hollywood’s export campaign in post-World War II Japan is forthcoming from Cornell University Press.