Assistant Professor of History
- B.A. (1997) Williams College
- A.M. (1999) Harvard University
- Ph.D. (2003) Harvard University
- Eiko.Maruko@williams.edu
- Stetson B29
- 413.597.2970
- Office Hours
- Thursday 10:00-12:00, or by appointment
- Courses
- LGST 101: Processes of Adjudication
- HIST 217: Early Modern Japan
- HIST 218: Modern Japan
- HIST 301C: Approaching the Past: Practices of Modern History
- HIST 321: History of U.S.-Japan Relations
- HIST 395: Comparative History of Organized Crime
- HIST 486T: Historical Memory of the Pacific War
- Research
- Modern History of Political Violence
- History of Organized Crime and Politics
- Modern Japanese Political and Social History
- Selected Publications
- Books:
- The Violent Politics of Modern Japan: Ruffians, Yakuza, and Democracy, 1860-1960 (under review).
- Articles and Essays:
- "Violence and Liberalism in Interwar Japan," (under review).
- "Organized Crime in Japan," in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
- "Mediated Democracy: Yakuza and Japanese Political Leadership," in Felia Allum and Renate Siebert, eds., Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy (New York: Routledge, 2003).