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AARON STEPHEN MOORE
Curriculum Vitae
School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies
Coor Hall 4464, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4302 USA
Email:
Phone: 719-510-7867
EDUCATION
Cornell University
Ph.D., History, August 2006.
Dissertation: The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945.
Advisors: J. Victor Koschmann (chair), Michael Steinberg, and Naoki Sakai.
M.A., History, April 2002.
M.A., Asian Studies, January 1999.
M.A. Thesis: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Historical Collective Praxis in Iinkai no Ronri
(Logic of Committee): Contributions Towards a Radical Democratic Philosophy.
University of Virginia
B.A., History and Final Honors (minor, Asian Studies), 1994.
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, 1994.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1. Associate Professor, History Faculty, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, August 2014 to present.
2. Assistant Professor, History Faculty, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University, August 2008 to May 2014 (on leave, 2008-2009).
3. Honors Faculty, Barrett, the Honors College, Arizona State University, August 2009 to Present.
4. Terasaki Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, UCLA, 2008-2009.
5. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio University, Sept. 2007 to July 2008.
6. Lecturer, History Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006-2007.
7. Research Associate, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 2006-07.
8. Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Cornell University.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
EXTERNAL
1. Fellowship for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Sept. 2017 to Aug. 2018.
2. Residential Scholarship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept. III., Jan. 2017 to Aug. 2017.
3. Visit Korea Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea, Aug. 2016.
4. Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies Fellowship, Seoul National University, Sept. 2014 to February 2015.
5. Asiatic Research Institute Fellowship for Northeast Asian Studies, Korea University, Summer 2013.
6. National Science Foundation Travel Grant Award for attending the International Congress for the History of Science and Technology in Budapest, Hungary, July 2009.
7. Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies, UCLA, 2008-2009.
8. Florence Tan Moeson Fellowship, Asia Division Friends Society, Library of Congress, June 2008.
9. Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2003-2004.
10. Monbukagakusho (Ministry of Science and Education) Research Scholarship, 2003-04, declined.
11. German Academic Exchange Fellowship (DAAD), Humboldt University, 2002-2003.
INTERNAL
1. Melikian Research Fund, “Engineering the Far East: The Formation of the Soviet-Stalinist Regional Economy in Northeast Asia During the Cold War,” 2016.
2. SHPRS Travel Grant, January 2014.
3. History Faculty Speakers Grant, 2013, 2015.
4. SHPRS Speakers Grant, November 2013.
5. Institute for Humanities Research Subvention Grant, Arizona State University, November 2012.
6. A.T. Steele Faculty Grant, Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University, January 2012; May 2013; June 2016.
7. Kelly-Douglas Fund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 2006.
8. Cunningham Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Cornell University, 2004-2005.
9. Foreign Language and Areas Studies Fellowship in Japanese, Cornell University, 2001-2002.
10. School for Criticism and Theory Fellowship, Cornell University, Summer 2001.
11. Sage Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1999-2000.
12. Cornell University East Asia Program Travel Grants, Cornell University, 1997, 2005.
13. Margaret Morgan Coughlin Award in Asian History, University of Virginia, 1994.
GRANTS
1. “Legacies of Colonialism and Writing the History of Colonial Rule,” Academy of Korean Studies Laboratory Program Grant, 2017 (Michael Shin and Aaron S. Moore, in process of application)
2. NEH Dialogues of War Grant, 2016-2017 (Erica Hughes, Aaron S. Moore, Matt Delmont, et. al. in process of application).
3. US Dept. of Education Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program Grant, 2017-19 (Executive Committee for application and implementation)
3. Korea Foundation Support Grant for “Korea Space” at ASU, 2016-17 (Aaron S. Moore).
4. Japan Foundation Institutional Project Support Program, 2011-2014 (Sybil Thornton, Anthony Chambers, John Creamer, Aaron Moore).
5. D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia Group Grant February 2013 (Aaron Moore, John DiMoia, Hiromi Mizuno).
6. Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1, December 2013 (Aaron Moore, John DiMoia, Hiromi Mizuno).
WORKS IN PROGRESS
1. Damming Asia: The Cold War and Japanese Post-Colonial Development in Asia
(Second monograph project; To be submitted to University of Hawaii Press).
2. “Flows and Networks” in Kavita Philip, Sarah Blacker, Emily Brownell, Sarah van Beurden, eds. Keywords in the History of Planning (Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Submitted to editors).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1. John Di Moia, Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron Moore, eds. Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order (New York and London: Bloomsbury Press, under contract for publication in 2018).
2. Chinese edition of Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Beijing: Beijing Yanziyue Culture and Art Studio, under contract for publication in 2018).
3. Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013; Paperback, 2015).
REFEREED ARTICLES
1. Aaron Moore and Lisa Onaga, “Searching for the Historical Roots of 11 March 2011,” Technology and Culture 58 (Jan. 2017): 154-158.
2. “Japanese Development Consultancies and Post-Colonial Power in Southeast Asia: The Case of Balu Chaung Hydropower Project in Burma,” East Asia Science, Technology and Society 8, no. 3 (2014): 297-322. Awarded the “Distinguished Contribution to Electrotechnical History” Commendation from the Society for the History of Technology, 2015. Second Most Downloaded Article in East Asia Science, Technology and Society on Project Muse (September 2014 – August 2015).
3. “‘The Yalu River Era of Developing Asia:’ Japanese Expertise, Colonial Power and the Construction of Sup’ung Dam, 1937-1945,” Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (2013): 115-139.
4. “Para-existential Forces of Invention: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Technology and Critique of Capitalism,” Positions: East Asia Culture Critique 18, no. 1 (2009): 127-157.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “Networks of Post-Colonial Development in Cold War Asia: Japan’s First Wartime Reparations Project in Burma” in Engineering Asia: Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order (New York and London: Bloomsbury Press; forthcoming, 2018).
- “The Logic of Committee and Doyōbi: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Political Praxis” in Max Ward, Viren Murthy, and Fabian Schaefer eds., Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 288-325.
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES
- Aaron Moore and Lisa Onaga, eds. “Forum: Japan Before Disaster Studies,” Technology and Culture 58 (Jan. 2017). Editors of forum section for issue of Technology and Culture.
TRANSLATIONS
1. Iwasaki Minoru, “The Deception of the ‘Idea of Self-Responsibility’ and ‘Individualization’—Neo-Liberal Rhetoric as Revealed in the Privatization of Japan’s National Universities,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 10, no. 2 (2009): 248-259.
2. Choi Deokhyo, “Wartime Mobilization and Zainichi Koreans,” Quadrante 6 (2004): 175-193.
3. Uemura Tadao, “Re-Thinking History at its Sunset,” Trans-Cultural Studies 7 (2003): i-xiii.
BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS
1. “Review of Engineering War and Peace in Modern Japan, 1868-1964,” Technology and Culture 56, no. 2 (2015): 545-547.
2. “Review of ‘Motazaru kuni’ no shigen ron,” International Journal of Asian Studies 11, no. 2 (2014): 230-233.
3. “Review of Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State,” Social History 37, no. 1 (2012): 75-77.
4. “Review of Japan’s Holy War: The Ideology of Radical Shinto Ultra-Nationalism,”
Japanese Studies 30, no. 3 (2010): 473-475.
5. “Review of Re-Politicising the Kyoto School as Philosophy,” Japanese Studies 28, no. 2 (2008): 254-256.
6. “Review: No More Tears Sister: Anatomy of Hope and Betrayal,” lines (May 2005),
7. “Review: Sri Lanka: Global Challenges and National Crises,” lines (August 2002),
ONLINE COURSE MATERIALS
1. “Japan in the Age of the Samurai: History and Film,” MIT’s Open Course Ware, http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
NON-REFEREED ARTICLES
- “‘Dai tōa no kensetsu’ kara ‘Ajia no kaihatsu’ he—Nihon no enjiniyaringu to posuto koroniaru/reisenki no ajia kaihatsu ni tsuite no gensetsu” [From “Constructing East Asia” to “Developing Asia”—Japanese Engineering and the Post-Colonial/Cold War Discourse of Development in Asia] Gendai shisō 42, no. 12 (2015): 128-147. For special issue on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Asia-Pacific War.
2. “Hatsumei no jun-jitsuzon-teki chikara: Sen kyūhyaku sanjūnendai ni okeru Nakai Masakazu no gijutsuron to shihonshugi hihan” [Para-existential Forces of Invention: Nakai Masakazu’s Theory of Technology and Critique of Capitalism] Quadrante 7 (2005): 243-275.
BOOK SECTION INTRODUCTION
- “Provincializing and De-Provincializing Europe” in Unpacking Europe: Towards a Critical Reading, Salah Hassan and Iftikhar Dadi, eds. (Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2001), 176-177.
INVITED TALKS
1. “Post-Colonial Development: Japanese Engineers and the Construction of South Korea’s Hydropower Infrastructure,” University of Tuebingen, Korean Studies Program, Tuebingen, Germany, May 2017.
2. “From Colonial Development to Economic Cooperation: Japanese Engineers and the Post-colonial, Cold War System of Development in Asia,” Asia Center, Harvard University, Sept. 2016.
3. “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea,” Science and Technology Studies Program/Centre for Korean Research/Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia, Sept. 2016.
4. “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in Asia,” Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University, February 2016.
5. “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in Asia,” East Asian Studies Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, November 2015.
6. “Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945.” Critical Book Review Event, Tokyo University of Science, March 2015.
7. “‘The Yalu River Era of Constructing East Asia’: Technology and Japanese Imperial Power on the Colonial Borderlands.” Center for Chinese Studies, School for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Paris, March 2015.
8. “Engineering the Empire: “Comprehensive Development” in Japan’s Colonial Borderlands.” Nissan Seminar Series, Oxford University, March 2015.
9. “Re-Engineering Asia—Japanese Technical Aid and Post-Colonial Power in Cold War Asia.” East Asian Studies Seminar, Cambridge University, March 2015.
10. “‘Constructing East Asia:’ Regional Planning in the Japanese Empire and Beyond.” Institute of East Asian Studies, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea, November 2014.
11. “Total War Mobilization and Dam Construction on the Korea Borderlands.” Kyujanggak Colloquium, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, October 2014.
12. “Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945.” Meet the Author & Critical Book Review Event, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, October 2014.
13. “Comprehensive Development” in Manchukuo: The Case of Fengman Dam, Conference on “East Asia and Manchuria in the Trans-War Period,” Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea, September 2014.
14. “Interview: Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945,” New Books in East Asian Studies and New Books in Science, Technology, and Society podcasts, October 2013. and
15. “The Technological Imaginary of Colonial Manchukuo,” History of Science and Technology Colloquium, Seoul National University, July 2013.
16. “Japanese Development Consultancies and Post-Colonial Power in Southeast Asia: The Case of Balu Chaung Dam in Burma (1954-1960),” Center for Asian Research, Arizona State University, April 2013.
17. “Constructing East Asia: Technology and Colonial Power in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945,” Department of History, University of California—Santa Barbara, Feb. 2011.
18. “Technology as Power in Wartime Manchukuo, 1932-1945,” Center for East Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin—Madison, March 2010.
19. “Technologies of Asian Development”: Japanese Engineers in China and Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium, UCLA, February 2009.
20. “‘Overcoming Modernity’ through Technology in Wartime Japan (1937-1945),” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium, UCLA, January 2009.
21. “The Technological Imagination of Imperial Japan, 1931-1945,” Library of Congress, Asia Division, June 2008.
CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
1. “Flows and Networks,” “De-Colonizing the Plan: Keywords in the History of Planning” Workshop, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, June 2017.
2. “Japanese Development Consultants, Infrastructure, and the Rise of Post-Colonial Dictatorships in Cold War Asia,” “Science, Technology, and Modern Dictatorship in Asia” Workshop, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, June 2017.
3. “The Cold War Formation of the Northeast Asian Political Economy: Japanese Engineering Consultants and the Development of South Korea’s Hydropower Infrastructure,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2017.
4. “From “Constructing” to “Developing” Asia—Japanese Engineers and the Formation of Post-Colonial, Cold War Development in Asia,” Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III (Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge) Colloquium, Berlin, Feb. 2017.
5. “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea,” Reconstruction of East Asia Conference, Cambridge University, Dec. 2016.
6. “World War II in Comparative Perspective,” Arizona Council for History Education, Mesa, AZ, August 2016
7. “From Colonial “Asian Construction” to Post-Colonial “Economic Cooperation”: Japanese Engineering Consultants and the Development of South Korea’s Hydropower Infrastructure,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Singapore, June 2016.
8. “From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea,” European Forum for Korean-Japanese History, Brussels, Dec. 2015.
9. “Developing the Southern Regions”—Japanese Aid Networks and Post-Colonial Power in Cold War Asia,” East Asian Science, Technology and Society Conference, Kaohsiung (Taiwan), Oct. 2015.
10. “Constructing the Continent: Japanese Technologies of Comprehensive Urban and Regional Planning in China, 1937-1945,” International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Paris, July 2015.
11. “Hydropower and Neo-Colonial Power in the Mekong—“Comprehensive Development” in Japan’s Overseas Development Assistance Programs,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Singapore, July 2014.
12. “Japanese Development Consultancies and Post-Colonial Power in Southeast Asia,” New Horizons in Modern Japan History of Technology, Cambridge, May 2014.
13. “Japan and War Reparations Development in Southeast Asia,” Workshop on Engineering Asia: Development Visions from the Imperial to the Post-War (1931-1975), National University of Singapore, December 2013.
14. “Hydropower and Neo-Colonial Power—The Emergence of ‘Comprehensive Development’ in Japan’s Overseas Development Assistance Programs,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 2013.
15. “The Colonial Origins of Post-War “Comprehensive National Land Development,” British Association for Japanese Studies Annual Meeting, Norwich, September 2012.
16. “Constructing the Continent: Japanese Urban Planning Technology and the Case of “Pan-Asian” Beijing,” Asian Studies Conference Japan Annual Meeting, Tokyo, June 2012.
17. “Japanese Development Consultancies in Southeast Asia,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, March 2012.
18. “The Colonial Roots of Japan’s Post-War ‘Comprehensive National Land Development’ Policies,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 2012.
19. “Japanese Development Consultancies and Neo-Colonial Power in Southeast Asia,” Society for the Social Study of Science Annual Meeting, Cleveland, November 2011.
20. “‘Constructing East Asia:’ Coastal Industrial Cities and Regional Planning in the Japanese Empire and Beyond,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, March 2011.
21. “Dams and Imperial Power in Wartime East Asia, 1931-1945,” Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Tacoma, September 2010.
22. “Total War Mobilization and Multi-purpose Dam Construction in Manchukuo, 1931-1945,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, March 2010.
23. “Japanese Engineers and ‘Comprehensive Technology’ in Wartime Manchukuo and China, 1931-1945,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, November 2009.
24. “‘Constructing East Asia:’ Japanese Technology Projects in Wartime Manchukuo and China, 1937-1945,” Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Tucson, October 2009.
25. “The Transnational Shaping of Theory of Technology in Imperial Japan, 1931-1945,” XXIII International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, Budapest, Hungary, July 2009.
26. “Total War, Colonial Engineers and the Precursors of Postwar ‘Comprehensive National Land Planning’”, Workshop on Dis/continuities: Nation-State Formation in Japan with Science, Technology, and Medicine during Imperialism, War, Occupation, and Peace, 1932-1962, UCLA, May 2009.
27. “The US Technocracy Movement and the Formation of Japanese Wartime Technology Bureaucrats,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 2008.
28. “Technological Visions of Southeast Asian Development Under the Japanese Empire,” International Conference for Asian Studies Meeting, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2007.
29. “The Order of Technology for the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere,” International Association of Historians of Asia Meeting, Manila, Philippines, 2006.
30. “‘Subjective Technology’ in Kyoto School Philosophy: Nakai Masakazu’s Philosophy of Technology and the Political,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2006.
31. “Technology as Creativity and Praxis: The Techno-topia of Wartime Japan,” European History Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2006.
32. “Techno-Imperialism and the New Order in East Asia: Mōri Hideoto’s Theory of Technology,” International Association of Historians of Asia Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 2004.
33. “Education Reform in Japan,” Workshop on Neo-Liberalism and Structural Reform in Asia, Center for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Madras, Madras, India, 2004.
34. “Ideologies of Cosmopolitanism and Modernization of the Japanese Empire, 1938-1942,” Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Collective Violence: Activist and Academic Perspectives, Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2003.
35. “Miki Kiyoshi and the Factory Society,” Documents of Barbarism: Comparative Cultures and Literatures, Cornell University, Ithaca, 2002.
CONFERENCE PANELS CHAIRED/ORGANIZED/COMMENTS
1. Commentator, “Hydraulic Modernity: Waterwork Projects and the Reconfiguration of Political and Economic Order in Twentieth-Century East Asia,” Association for Asian Studies in Asia Annual Meeting, Seoul, Korea, June 2017.
2. Organizer and Chair, “Infrastructures of Planning In South Korea and Japan: The Global Origins of Developmentalism,” Society for the History of Technology, Singapore, June 2016.