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Garrett L. Washington | |
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| Occupation | Professor author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Rice University (BA) Universite de Paris VIII Saint Denis/Vincennes (DEA) Purdue University (PhD)Contents |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Japanese history |
| Sub-discipline | History of Modern Japan History of women and gender History of religion Social history |
| Institutions | The University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Garrett L. Washington is an American professor of Japanese history. He is an associate professor of history and the director of diversity,equity,and inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specializes in Western influences on late 19th and early 20th century Japanese society. [1]
Washington received a B.A. from Rice University. In 2000,he was an Association for International Education Japan MonbushōScholar with KyūshūUniversity. He received a diplôme d'études approfondies from the Universitéde Paris VIII Saint Denis/Vincennes and a doctorate in from Purdue University. He received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship in 2008. [2]
Washington has written about Japanese Protestantism and the roles of religious organizations in social movements. He is currently researching the history of women and gender in Japan. For his research,he has received the UMass Healey Faculty Research Grant and the Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grant from the Association for Asian Studies. [3] In 2019,Washington was the Japan International Christian University Foundation Visiting Scholar.
Washington was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University from 2008 to 2009 and a postdoctoral fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He went on to teach at Oberlin College. He currently teaches courses on modern and traditional Japan,Japanese women's history,Japanese imperialism,US-Japan relations,and race,religion and nation in East Asia at UMass. He was a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2018,and in 2020,he received the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award. [4]