GAVIN J. CAMPBELL
Graduate School of Global Studies
Professor
Last Updated :2023/05/28

Researcher Profile and Settings

Researcher

  • EMail Addr Public

    gcampbelmail.doshisha.ac.jp

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - General

Education

  • ノースキャロライナ大学チャペルヒル校, - 1999
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, - 1999
  • ノースキャロライナ大学チャペルヒル校, - 1994
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, - 1994
  • コーネル大学, - 1992
  • Cornell University, - 1992
  • ケンタッキー大学, スクール オブ ミュージック, - 1987
  • University of Kentucky, - 1987

Degree

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Association Memberships

  • Asian Studies Association
  • 日本アメリカ学会 Organization of American Historians
  • Asian Studies Association
  • Organization of American Historians
  • Japan Association for American Studies

Awards

  • 第173回新島襄生誕記念会、新島論文賞
    2016, Japan
  • Niijima Essay Prize
    2016
  • Will F. Holmes Award, Southern Historical Association [best paper at the annual conference by junior faculty.]
    2001
  • Will F. Holmes Award, Southern Historical Association [best paper at the annual conference by junior faculty
    2001
  • St. George Tucker Society Dissertation Prize
    2000
  • St. George Tucker Society Dissertation Prize
    2000
  • Folklore Fellows Prize [best published article in the field of folklore by a graduate student]
    1995
  • 1995 Folklore Fellows Prize [best published article in the field of folklore by a graduate student]
    1995

Published Papers

  • Styling Hirohito: Modernity, Monarchy, and “Western Clothes” in Interwar Japan
    Gavin James Campbell
    Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, 25(3) 1 - 27, Apr. 2021, Scientific journal

MISC

  • Kimono: The Global Adventures of a Fashion Icon
    Education About Asia, 27(1) 49 - 54, Jul. 2022
  • The Transnational Turn in American Studies : A View from the Water
    Campbell Gavin James
    「同志社アメリカ研究」, Alternative:International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, 53号(53) 85 - 97, 2017
  • Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South
    Gavin James Campbell
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 103(1) 277 - 277, Jun. 2016, Book review
  • "God and the Gorilla: Religion and Science at Niijima's Amherst"
    Gavin James Campbell
    「新島研究」, 107号(vol. 107) 37 - 53, 2016
  • "God and the Gorilla: Religion and Science at Niijima's Amherst"
    Gavin James Campbell
    Niijima kenkyu, 107号(vol. 107) 37 - 53, 2016
  • "An Unbroken Chain Between Us" : Thoughts on Missionary Encounters
    Campbell Gavin James
    『同志社アメリカ研究』, Alternative:International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, (第51 号) 1 - 20, 2015
  • “An Unbroken Chain Between Us: Thoughts on Missionary Encounters”
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    『同志社アメリカ研究』, (第51 号) 1 - 20, 2015
  • Toilets tell truth about people: 150 years of plumbing for “real Japan”
    Gavin James Campbell
    The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World, Palgrave Macmillan, 103 - 121, 01 Jan. 2014
  • “Toilets Tell Truth about People”: 150 Years of Plumbing for “Real Japan,”
    Gavin James Campbell
    The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World, 103 - 121, 2014
  • “We Must Learn Foreign Knowledge: The Trans-Pacific Education of a Samurai Sailor, 1864-1865”
    Gavin J. Campb
    Japanese Journal of American Studies, 25 43609 , 2014
  • Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era.
    Gavin James Campbell
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, ORGANIZATION AMER HISTORIANS, 99(3) 940 - 941, Dec. 2012, Book review
  • Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
    Gavin James Campbell
    AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 116(5) 1515 - 1516, Dec. 2011, Book review
  • Jim Crow's Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945
    David Murray
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES, CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 45(3) 1515 - 1516, Aug. 2011, Book review
  • Staging tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott
    Michael T. Bertrand
    JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY, SOUTHERN HISTORICAL ASSOC, 74(3) 791 - 792, Aug. 2008, Book review
  • “Britney Spears.”
    CAMPBELL Gavin James; Bill C. Malone
    The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 355 - 56, 2008
  • "Britney on the Belle Curve." in Pop Perspectives: Readings to Critique Contemporary Culture
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL, Laura; Gray-Rosendale, ed
    571 - 580, 2008
  • “Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott”
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    Journal of Appalachian Studies 13, 262 , 2008
  • “Britney Spears.”
    CAMPBELL Gavin James; Bill C. Malone
    The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, 355 - 56, 2008
  • "Britney on the Belle Curve." in Pop Perspectives: Readings to Critique Contemporary Culture
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL
    McGraw Hill, 571 - 580, 2008
  • Steel Drivin'Man: John Henry, the untold story of an American legend
    Gavin James Campbell
    AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, AMER HISTORICAL REVIEW, 112(4) 1199 - 1200, Oct. 2007, Book review
  • Steel Drivin'Man: John Henry, the untold story of an American legend
    Rosemary Feurer
    REVIEWS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PRESS, 35(3) 399 - 405, Sep. 2007, Book review
  • "A music characteristic of our racial psychology": John Powell and the challenge of American music, 1900-1925
    Campbell Gavin James
    Doshisha American studies, Doshisha University, 42 97 - 112, 2006
  • 'A Music Characteristic of Our Racial Psychology': John Powell and the Challenge of American Music, 1900-1925
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL
    Doshisha American Studies, 42 97 - 112, 2006
  • Mavericks and other traditions in American music.
    Gavin James Campbell
    JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY, ORGANIZATION AMER HISTORIANS, 92(2) 684 - 684, Sep. 2005, Book review
  • "Buried Alive in the Blues: Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk." in How Far is America From Here: Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association
    Gavin James CAMPBELL; Theo D'haen; Paul Giles; Djelal Kadir; Lois Parkinson; Zamora, eds
    499 - 507, 2005
  • "Buried Alive in the Blues: Janis Joplin and the Souls of White Folk." in How Far is America From Here: Selected Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International American Studies Association
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL
    Amsterdam/NY: Rodopi, 499 - 507, 2005
  • "Classical Music and the Politics of Gender, 1900-1925"
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL
    American Music, 21 (Winter) 446 - 473, 2003
  • "Classical Music and the Politics of Gender, 1900-1925"
    Gavin James; CAMPBELL
    American Music, 21 (Winter) 446 - 473, 2003
  • “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South,”
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    Doshisha American Studies, (vol.49) 87 - 91
  • “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South,”
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    Doshisha American Studies, (vol.49) 87 - 91

Books etc

  • "All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge: Niijima Jo's Transpacific Crusade for a Christian Japan, 1871-73" in Varieties of Southern Religious History: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Mathews
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    University of South Carolina Press, 2015, 162-176, Scholarly book
  • “Toilets Tell Truth about People”: 150 Years of Plumbing for “Real Japan”in The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    Palgrave MacMillan, 2014, The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World,103-121, Scholarly book
  • “Mortification, Mockery and Dissembling: Western Adventures in Japanese Etiquette,”in Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan
    CAMPBELL Gavin; Jan Bardsley; Laura Miller
    University of California Press, 2011, Joint work, 80-94, Scholarly book
  • “Britney on the Belle Curve,”
    CAMPBELL Gavin; Laura Gray-Rosendale
    McGraw Hill, 2007, Joint work, 571-580
  • Belle or Slut? Making Sense of Britney Spears”in Amerika kenkyu no riron to jissen: tabunka shakai ni okeru bunka no poritikusu
    CAMPBELL Gavin; Yusuke Torii; Masumi Izumi; Wuming Zhao
    Sekaishisho-sha, 2007, Joint work, 55-70
  • Music and the Making of a New South
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    University of North Carolina Press, 2004, Scholarly book

Presentations

  • Modern Girl, Modern Geisha: Interwar Popular Culture and the Geisha of Kyoto
    Gavin James Campbell
    Modern Japan History Workshop, 08 Dec. 2022, Oral presentation
  • "The Charms of so useful a Garment": The Kimono in Western Fashion, 1600-1920
    Gavin James Campbell
    Asian Studies Conference Japan, 02 Jul. 2022, Oral presentation
  • “The Plain Mr. in His Plain Dress,”: Diplomatic Uniforms in the Early Republic
    Australia and New Zealand American Studies Association Annual Conference, 24 Nov. 2021, Oral presentation
  • “Music and the Making of the New South,”
    Gavin Campbell
    Invited Lecture, California State University, Chico, 05 Nov. 2021, Invited oral presentation
  • “‘All These Small Things’: US-Japan Sartorial Diplomacy and the ‘Opening’ of Japan”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Japanese Studies Conference, Dimitrie Cantimer Christian University, 03 Sep. 2021, Oral presentation
  • “Japonisme: Rethinking Art Between East and West,”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Doshisha research study group, 25 Jul. 2021
  • “Sartorial Diplomacy at the Shogun’s Court, 1856-58”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 16 Jan. 2021, Oral presentation
  • “Ceremony, Diplomacy and Intercultural Communication: A Case Study of US-Japan Relations, 1856-58”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Cultural Studies, Jiangxi Science & Technology Normal University, 18 Oct. 2020, Invited oral presentation
  • “Stitching Tokugawa Japanese Menswear into Global Fashion, 1600-1800”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Globalizing Men’s Fashion, London College of Fashion, 22 Jul. 2020, Oral presentation
  • “Styling Hirohito: Menswear, Monarchy and Modernity in the Roaring Twenties”
    Gavin James Campbell
    Department of History and Japan Studies Program (co-sponsored), University of Kentucky, 05 Mar. 2020, Invited oral presentation
  • “Conservative Christians in Donald Trump’s America,”
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    Center for the Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR), Doshisha University, 2017, Doshisha University
  • "The United States, Japan and the Transnational Politic of Menswear,"
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    The University of Kentucky, Department of History, 2017, Kentucky
  • "Clothing the Body Politic: Menswear and Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-1871,"
    Anthropology of Japan in Japan conference, 2017
  • トランプ大統領のアメリカと保守的キリスト教
    同志社一神教センターのセミナー, 2017
  • "Clothing the Body Politic: Menswear and Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-1871,"
    Anthropology of Japan in Japan conference, 2017
  • Conservative Christians in Donald Trump's America
    Doshisha Center for the Study of Monotheistic Religions Seminar, 2017
  • “‘To Make the World One in Christ Jesus’: Transpacific Protestantism in the Age of Empire”
    Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity, 2016
  • “‘To Make the World One in Christ Jesus’: Transpacific Protestantism in the Age of Empire”
    Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity, 2016
  • “Thinking Like an Historian.” Graduate student workshop for students in American Studies
    CAMPBELL Gavin
    2013, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
  • “All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge”: Niijima Jō’s Trans-Pacific Crusade for Christ, 1871-72
    At the Korean Association for American Studies annual conference, 2013
  • “All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge”: Niijima Jō’s Trans-Pacific Crusade for Christ, 1871-72
    American Studies Association of Korea, 2013
  • Southerners Defending Slavery
    invited lecture and workshop for graduate students at the American Culture Center, Sogang University, 2013
  • “All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge”: Niijima Jō’s Trans-Pacific Crusade for Christ, 1871-72
    At the Korean Association for American Studies annual conference, 2013
  • “All Sharers in the Blessed Knowledge”: Niijima Jō’s Trans-Pacific Crusade for Christ, 1871-72
    American Studies Association of Korea, 2013
  • Southerners Defending Slavery
    invited lecture and workshop for graduate students at the American Culture Center, Sogang University, 2013
  • We Must Learn Foreign Knowledge: The Trans-Pacific Adventures of a Samurai Sailor
    The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: Connected Histories in the Age of Empire, 2012
  • We Must Learn Foreign Knowledge: The Trans-Pacific Adventures of a Samurai Sailor
    The Asia-Pacific Maritime World: Connected Histories in the Age of Empire, 2012
  • “From the Chrysanthemum Throne to the Porcelain Throne: the Japanese Toilet in the Anglo-American Travel Narrative,”
    Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 2011
  • “Now I Believe I Have Found the Answer: God and Niijima Jō at Andover Seminary”
    Japan in the US, the US in Japan Research Study Group (部門研究5) Doshisha University, 2011
  • “From the Chrysanthemum Throne to the Porcelain Throne: the Japanese Toilet in the Anglo-American Travel Narrative,”
    Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 2011
  • “Now I Believe I Have Found the Answer: God and Niijima Jō at Andover Seminary”
    Japan in the US, the US in Japan Research Study Group (部門研究5) Doshisha University, 2011
  • “Niijima Jo and the World of the American Merchant Marine,”
    invited lecture at the Georgia Workshop in the Cultural History of Capitalism, University of Georgia, Athens, 2010
  • “Niijima Jo and the World of the American Merchant Marine,”
    invited lecture at the Georgia Workshop in the Cultural History of Capitalism, University of Georgia, Athens, 2010
  • “Cosmopolitanism on Vacation: Contemporary American Travelers in Japan”
    Nordic Association for American Studies annual conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
  • From 新島七五三 to Joe Neesima: US Merchant Ships and the Transformations of a Japanese Sojourner”
    Japan in the US, the US in Japan Research Study Group (部門研究5) Doshisha University, 2009
  • Invited as visiting associate professor in the Regional Studies Program of Shantou University
    Shantou China teaching an intensive introductory-level undergraduate course: Adventures in Popular Culture Studies, 2009
  • “Cosmopolitanism on Vacation: Contemporary American Travelers in Japan”
    Nordic Association for American Studies annual conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009
  • From 新島七五三 to Joe Neesima: US Merchant Ships and the Transformations of a Japanese Sojourner”
    Japan in the US, the US in Japan Research Study Group (部門研究5) Doshisha University, 2009
  • Invited as visiting associate professor in the Regional Studies Program of Shantou University
    Shantou China teaching an intensive introductory-level undergraduate course: Adventures in Popular Culture Studies, 2009
  • Invited as visiting associate professor in the Regional Studies Program of Shantou University
    Shantou China teaching an intensive introductory-level undergraduate course: Adventures in Popular Culture Studies, 2008
  • “Britney Spears and the Imagined South in American Popular Culture,”
    American Studies Association of France annual conference, 2008
  • Invited as visiting associate professor in the Regional Studies Program of Shantou University
    Shantou China teaching an intensive introductory-level undergraduate course: Adventures in Popular Culture Studies, 2008
  • “Britney Spears and the Imagined South in American Popular Culture,”
    American Studies Association of France annual conference, 2008
  • “The Continued Relevance of American South,”
    invited lecture at the Tokyo American Center, 2007
  • “The Story of American Classical Music at the Turn of the Century,”
    invited lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 2007
  • “My Wife Can’t Stop Talking About Toilets: Anglo-American Travelers and the Japanese Toilet”
    “Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel Conference,” Leeds, United Kingdom, 2007
  • “‘We’ll Put a Boot in Your Ass’: Southern Masculinity and American Militarism After 9/11,” at “
    The United States after September 11: Changes and Continuities” conference, Beijing, China,, 2007
  • “Race, Order and the Transformation of a North Carolina Slave Festival,”
    at the International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea, 2007
  • “The Continued Relevance of American South,”
    invited lecture at the Tokyo American Center, 2007
  • “The Story of American Classical Music at the Turn of the Century,”
    invited lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 2007
  • “My Wife Can’t Stop Talking About Toilets: Anglo-American Travelers and the Japanese Toilet”
    “Things That Move: The Material World of Tourism and Travel Conference,” Leeds, United Kingdom, 2007
  • “Race, Order and the Transformation of a North Carolina Slave Festival,”
    at the International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea, 2007

Works

  • Participated in the founding meeting of the Global United States Studies consortium, University of East Anglia
    2013
  • Participated in the founding meeting of the Global United States Studies consortium, University of East Anglia
    2013
  • Served as evaluator and interviewer for faculty and graduate students applying
    2009
  • Gave a guest lecture (“Niijima Jo and America”) to students visiting the Doshisha Global MBA program
    2009
  • Served as evaluator and interviewer for faculty and graduate students applying
    2009
  • Gave a guest lecture (“Niijima Jo and America”) to students visiting the Doshisha Global MBA program
    2009
  • Served as outside expert reviewer for University of Georgia Press
    2008
  • Served as outside expert reviewer for University of Georgia Press
    2008