Researcher Profile and Settings

Researcher

• EMail Addr Public

  gcampbelmail.doshisha.ac.jp

URL

https://doshisha.academia.edu/GavinJamesCampbell

researchmap

https://researchmap.jp/read0200875

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / History - General
• Humanities & social sciences / Religious studies / Christianity in the US and Global Christianity

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
• Organization of American Historians

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

• "Modern Kyoto, Modern Geisha: Geisha Entertainment in the 1920s and 1930s"
  Gavin James Campbell
  Feb. 2025, Research society
• Kimono: The Global Adventures of a Fashion Icon
  Gavin James Campbell
  Education About Asia, 27(1) 49 - 54, Jul. 2022
• 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
• “To Make the World One in Christ Jesus”: Transpacific Protestantism in the Age of Empire”
  Gavin James Campbell
  Pacific Historical Review, 87 575 - 592, Aug. 2018, Scientific journal
• The Transnational Turn in American Studies : A View from the Water
  Gavin James Campbell
  Doshisha American Studies, Alternative:International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, 53号(53) 85 - 97, 2017
  

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• "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
  Doshisha American Studies, Alternative:International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, (第51 号) 1 - 20, 2015
  

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• “We Must Learn Foreign Knowledge: The Trans-Pacific Education of a Samurai Sailor, 1864-1865”
  Gavin J. Campbell
  Japanese Journal of American Studies, 25 43609 , 2014
• "They Want My Life: American Travelers and the Gaijin Complex"
  Gavin James Campbell
  Doshisha American Studies, 203 - 214, Mar. 2012
• 'A Music Characteristic of Our Racial Psychology': John Powell and the Challenge of American Music, 1900-1925
  Gavin James; CAMPBELL
  Doshisha American Studies, Doshisha University, 42 97 - 112, 2006
  

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• "A Higher Mission Than Merely to Please the Ear: Music and Social Reform in America, 1900-1925
  Gavin James Campbell
  Musical Quarterly, 84 259 - 286, Aug. 2003, Scientific journal
• "Classical Music and the Politics of Gender, 1900-1925"
  Gavin James; CAMPBELL
  American Music, 21 (Winter) 446 - 473, 2003
• "Old Can Be Used Instead of New: Shape-Note Singing and the Crisis of Modernity in the New South, 1880-1920"
  Gavin James Campbell
  Journal of American Folklore, 110 169 - 188, 1997, Scientific journal

MISC

• “Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China”
  Pacific Historical Review, 92(4) 661 - 662, Oct. 2023, Book review
• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• 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 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 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
• 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
• “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 Spears.”
  CAMPBELL Gavin James; Bill C. Malone
  2008
• “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

• Kyoto's Interwar Geiko/Maiko and Urban Amusements
  Asian Studies Conference Japan, 01 Jul. 2023, Oral presentation
• 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