Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
St.OlafCollege, Asian Studies and Political Science
1520 St. Olaf Avenue, Northfield, MN55057
507.786.3655,
Academic Positions
Freeman Assistant Professor of Asian Politics, St.OlafCollege
September 2003 – present
Assistant Professor of Political Science, New College of Florida
(Previously New College of the University of South Florida)
August 1998 – June 2003
Education
Ph.D.
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, December 1998.
Dissertation: “Outsiders Moving In: Identity and Institutions in Japanese Responses to International Migration”
M.A.
University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, June 1993.
Thesis: “The Autonomy of Political Executives: A Case Study of the Food Stamp Program”
B.A.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1989.
Summa Cum Laude, with Highest Distinction in Political Science and Highest Distinction in East Asian Studies.
Publications
“Asian Conversations: Establishing an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Asia,” 2006. Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak and Phyllis Larson. International Journal of the Humanities 3 (8).
“Local Citizenship in Japan: Overcoming Nationality?” 2006. Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective, ed. Takeyuki Tsuda. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
“Harvesting Insights from Rice in East Asian Studies,” with Bruce R. Dalgaard, Winter 2004. Education about Asia 9 (3).
“Japon, Villes Ouvertes,” 2004. Translated and edited by Sandrine Tolloti. Alternatives Internationale 15, Juillet-Août.
“Living in Harmony: Prospects for Cooperative Local Responses to Foreign Migrants,” 2000. Local Voices, National Issues: The Impact of Local Politics in Japanese Policymaking, ed. Sheila Smith, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, Center for Japanese Studies.
“Foreigners are Local Citizens, Too: Local Governments Respond to International Migration in Japan,” 2000. Japan and Global Migration, eds. Mike Douglass and Glenda S. Roberts, London: Routledge.
Book Review of Foreign Workers and Law Enforcement in Japan, by W. Herbert, American Journal of Sociology, May 1998.
Courses Taught
Introductory Undergraduate
Introduction to International Relations (St.OlafCollege and New College of Florida)
Thinking Politics: An Introduction (New College of Florida)
Power and the Press in Asia (St.OlafCollege)
Intermediate Undergraduate
Asian Conversations II: Meeting Sojourners (St. Olaf College, to be taught in China and Japan)
Comparative Politics: Structure, Culture and Rationality (New College of Florida)
International Politics of Northeast Asia (St.OlafCollege)
Japanese Politics (New College of Florida)
Japanese Politics and Society (St.OlafCollege)
Local Politics in Global Cities (New College of Florida)
National Identity in China and Japan (St.OlafCollege, taught in China and Japan)
Nationalism, Regionalism, Globalization: Asia (St.OlafCollege)
Rice and Society in East Asia (St.OlafCollege)
State Theory (New College of Florida)
Advanced Undergraduate
Human Rights in Asian Contexts (St.OlafCollege)
Political Activism Across Borders (New College of Florida)
Immigration and Citizenship (St.OlafCollege and New College of Florida)
Independent Study Courses and Tutorials
Qualitative Methods & Fieldwork in Canada, Michael Reading, Spring 2007 (St.OlafCollege)
Qualitative Methods & Fieldwork in China, Leigh Billings, Spring 2007 (St.OlafCollege)
US -China Foreign Relations, Kelin Loe, Summer 2006 (St.OlafCollege)
Political Development, Dan Garnaas-Holmes, Fall 2004 (St.OlafCollege)
Grassroots Politics in Japan, Kristin White, Fall 2004 (St.OlafCollege)
Group Thesis Tutorial (New College of Florida)
Japanese Language Readings in Immigration Politics (New College of Florida)
Totalitarianism (New College of Florida)
United States Foreign Policy and Asian Studies (New College of Florida)
Work in Progress
Teaching Democracy: Civic Engagement in Japanese Higher Education. Research Project Proposal, submitted toFulbright Scholar Program on August 1, 2008 (10 months funding requested); Japan Foundation Research Fellowship on September 2, 2008 (9 months funding requested). Will be submitted to Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship (will request 9 monthsfunding); and to National Endowment for the Humanities/Advanced Social Science Research on Japan (will request 10 monthsfunding).
“Necessary Exclusions: How Nationalism and Democratization Masked Decolonization in Japan.” (To be submitted to Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.)
“Typologies in Immigration and Citizenship Politics.” (To be submitted to International Migration Review.)
Conference Papers & Invited Lectures
“Embedding Study Abroad in the Home-campus Program,”17thAnnual ASIANetwork Conference, Lisle, IL, March 13-15, 2009.
“Comparative National Membership Regimes” 66th Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference, April 3-6, 2008, Chicago, Illinois.
“Immigration and Nationalism,” Citizenship in the 21st Century, CarletonCollege and St.OlafCollege Joint Faculty Seminar. April 12, 2007.
“Legacies of Rapid Decolonization in Japan and the Challenges to Them,” 31st Annual Social Science History Association Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. November 2-5, 2006.
“Legacies of Decolonization for Japanese National Identity” Brown bag lunch seminar on East Asian Studies, University of Minnesota, TwinCities. March 28, 2006.
“Asian Conversations: Establishing an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Asia,” with Phyllis Larson, The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, August 2-5, 2005.
“Development of National Migration Regimes: Japan in Comparative Perspective,” Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, October 19, 2004.
“Local Citizenship in Japan: Overcoming Nationality?” Midwest Japan Seminar, University of Minnesota, October 2, 2004.
“’Asian Conversations’ at St. Olaf: Rice and Society in East Asia,”12th Annual ASIANetwork Conference, Lisle, IL, April 2-4, 2004.
“Can Migrants Be Members? Local Citizenship in Japan, “ Japan Forum Lectures, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 28, 2003.
“Putting the ‘City’ Back in Citizenship? A Comparison of Foreigners’ Councils in Global Cities,” Transnational Migration and Social Justice in the Global City, MarquetteUniversity, Milwaukee, WI, November 14-16, 2002.
“Can Migrants Be Members? Constraints and Consequences of Local Citizenship in Japan,” Reluctant Hosts? Japan as a Recent Country of Immigration in Comparative Perspective, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, October 18-19, 2002.
“Towards Local Citizenship? Japanese Cities Respond to Immigration,” Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, January 23, 2001.
“Nation after Empire: Reformulation of Japanese Citizenship under Occupation,” 2000 Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 30-September 3, 2000.
“Inventing Homogenous Japan: Immigration and Citizenship Policies from 1945-1960,” The 52nd Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies,San Diego, CA, March 9-12, 2000.
“Internationalizing a Homogenous Nation: Japanese Responses to International Migration,” KalamazooCollege Liberal Arts Colloquium, Kalamazoo, MI, October 13, 1999.
“The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Local Internationalization,” The 50th Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies,Washington, D.C., March 26-29, 1998.
“Community Responses to the New International Migration in Japan,” The 49th Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies,Chicago, IL, March 1997.
“Recognizing Foreigners as Community Members: Immigration and the Internationalization of Japanese Cities,” 1996 Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August 29-September 1, 1996.
“Immigration Politics in Japan: Differences in Issue Articulation across Levels of Government and Society,” 1995 Annual Convention of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 31-September 3, 1995.
“How far Kokusaika? Possibilities Created by Immigration to Japan,” The 7th Annual Ph.D. Kenkyukai Conference, International House, Tokyo, Japan, June 26, 1995.
Fellowships and Awards
St.OlafCollege, Teaching and Curriculum Development Grant, Summer 2008, for finalizing Asian Conversations Curriculum
St.OlafCollege, Freeman Faculty Funds, Asian Conversations Planning (BeijingTokyo) & Civic Engagement Research (Japan) summer 2008
St.OlafCollege, Teaching and Curriculum Development Grant, with Phyllis Larson, Summer 2007, for revising Asian Conversations Curriculum
St.OlafCollege, Released-Time Grant, two-course release for 2005-2006 academic year.
New College of Florida Research Leave, Spring 2002
New College of Florida Summer Faculty Development Funds, Summer 2001
$3000 for Naming the People: Japanese Immigration and Citizenship project
New College of Florida Summer Faculty Development Funds, Summer 2000
$3000 for research related to Naming the People: Japanese Immigration and Citizenshipproject
New College of the University of South Florida, Summer 2000
Course Development Grant from the Community Action Research Initiative
$3000 for preparation of “Research Practicum: Globalization Politics in Florida”
Northeast Asia Council, Association of Asian Studies, awarded March 24, 2000
Grant for Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes
¥200,000, “Quiet Before the Storm? Shifting Immigration Politics in Japan”
University of South Florida, awarded May 1999
Research & Creative Scholarship Grant, $7200 for travel, library research at Harvard University and the Library of Congress, and summer salary, “Re-inventing Homogenous Japan: Immigration and Citizenship Policies, 1945-1966”
Mellon Foundation, 1996-1997 (academic year)
$12,000, University of Chicago Dissertation Year Fellowship
Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, January 1995-March 1996
Affiliation in Japan, HitotsubashiUniversity
University of Chicago Century Fellowship, October 1991, four-year award
Tuition and stipend
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bronze Tablet University Honors; Ralph Tyler, Jr. Prize in East Asian Studies; Charles E. Merriam Political Science Scholarship; Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha
Service
Discussant. “China in Institutional Perspective.” Panel at 66th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 3-6 April 2008, Chicago, IL.
American Political Science Association, 2004 Ralph J. Bunche Award Committee
Outside Reader of Ph.D. Dissertation, MonashUniversity, October 2003
Manuscript Referee: International Migration, Social Science Japan Journal, Critical Asian Studies, Comparative Politics, StanfordUniversity Press, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
St.OlafCollege
Administrative and Committee Service
Director Asian Conversations, 2005-2009
Fulbright Advisory Committee, 2003-2009
Convener of Asian Studies Dept. Subcommittee on Asian Conversations Review, 2006-07
Honorary Degree Subcommittee, Spring 2007
Scholars Day Interviewer for Admissions Office, 2004, 2006, 2007
Co-organizer, “Voices from the Past, Voices for the Future: The Human Cost of War,” (visit by four hibakusha from Japan) Summer and Fall 2006
Co-organized Comprehensive Immigration Reform Roundtable, March 7, 2006
Taskforce reviewing Term in Asia, IDOCS, Spring 2006
Faculty Participant in interviews of Admissions Office Director, Fall 2005
International Relations Search Committee, Political Science Department, Spring 2005
Political Theory Search Committee, Political Science Department, Fall 2004
Freeman Seminar Faculty Development Program, Lecturer, Mentor, Trip Co-Leader 2004-2005
Dept. of Asian Studies, Working Group on Information Literacy in the Curriculum, 2003-04
Dept. of Asian Studies, Working Group on Term in Asia, 2003-04
International Relations Search Committee, Political Science Department, Fall 2003
Presentations
Center for Innovation in the Liberal Arts Presentations
- “Conversation about the Conversations.” 2 April 2008.
- Faculty Development Release Time Grants, September 21, 2006
- Technology Poster Session, Presentation on Using Wiki Pages, November 2007
- Moodle Presentation, March & June 2005
Moderator for Immigration Politics Panel, Political Action Committee, September 2007
Admissions’ Office Speaker, Fall 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008
Speaker at Amnesty International Human Rights Week event, Fall 2006
Women’s History Month, Panel Moderator, March 2005
Advisor to students
Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honorary) Faculty Advisor, 2004-09
CIVICS House Faculty Advisor, 2007-2009
Dept. of Political Science, Distinction Paper advisor for one student, reader for one student, Spring 2007
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Student Advocates, Faculty Advisor, 2006-07
Dept. of Asian Studies, Distinction Paper advisor-two students, committee for one other, Spring 2005
Dept. of Political Science, Distinction Paper advisor for three students, Spring 2005
Dept. of Asian Studies, Distinction Committee for two students, Spring 2004
New College of Florida
Environmental Social Scientist Search Committee, Div. of Social Sciences, 2002 –2003
Student Research and Travel Scholarship Committee, 2002-2003; Spring 2000
Student Life Committee, 2000-2001; 1999-2000 (Chair)
Diversity Planning Group, Blueprint Plan, Summer 1999
Faculty Development, St.OlafCollege
Civic Engagement Institute, Center for Experiential Learning, June 2008
CILA Summer Workshop, Global Understanding across the Curriculum, May 2008
CILA Learning Community on Global Understanding, 2007-08
Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, “Contemporary China,” January 2007
Foreign Languages Across the Curriculum Workshop, June 2006
Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, “Citizenship,” January 2006
Moodle Training Workshop, IIT and CILA, August 2004
Ethics and Normative Perspectives Seminar, Spring and Summer 2004; June 2006
Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, “World Hunger,” May 2004
Languages
Japanese, excellent speaking and reading ability, good writing ability
Memberships and Affiliations
American Political Science Association; ASIANetwork; Association for Asian Studies; Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego, Research Associate; Midwest Japan Seminar; Midwest Political Science Association; Social Science History Association
Additional Academic Positions
Editorial Intern, 1996 - 1997 (academic year): Editorial Board of the Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture (published by Cornell University Press), University of Chicago. Chief Editors, David Laitin and George Steinmetz
Field Researcher, April – May 1996: Comparative Research Project on Labor Supply and Demand in San Diego County and Hamamatsu Region, Wayne Cornelius (University of California, San Diego) and Yasuo Kuwahara (Dokkyo University), co-directors. Arranged for and conducted interviews with employers of foreign workers in Hamamatsu, Japan. Coordinated communication between the Hamamatsu field site, the Institute of Statistical Research in Tokyo, and the Center of U.S.- Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego.
Workshop Coordinator, July 1995 - March 1996: Ph.D. Kenkyukai, Social Sciences Group, International House, Tokyo, Japan.Arranged for speakers and served as moderator of workshop seminar for Ph.D. students conducting research in Japan.
Workshop Coordinator, 1993-1994 (academic year): Graduate Student Coordinator for the University of Chicago workshop, “East Asia: Politics, Economics and Society.” Served as contact for guest speakers, participating faculty, and graduate students. Performed various administrative duties.
Teaching Assistant, Winter Quarter 1994: University of Chicago, “Comparative Economic Diplomacy,” Professor Daniel Verdier. Taught weekly discussion sessions, graded undergraduates, and conducted guest lecture.
Instructor, Summer 1992: OaktonCommunity College, “Conversational Japanese.” Designed and taught intensive summer language course.
Research Assistant, Summer 1992: University of Chicago, for Professor Bernard Silberman. Constructed bibliography of Japanese language sources on the institutionalization of professions.
Non-academic Employment
Toshiba Corporation, Tokyo Headquarters, August 1989 – August 1991
International Agreements, Negotiations and Legal Services Division; International Agreements Negotiation Corporate Staff.
Katherine Tegtmeyer PakOctober 2008