Researcher Profile and Settings

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https://researchmap.jp/Hiromi_Monobe

Research Interests

• ハワイ社会史
• Japanese Americans
• American Studies
• migration, immigration
• race, ethnicity
• nationalism, transnationalism

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / Local studies
• Humanities & social sciences / History - Europe/America

Research Experience

• Doshisha University, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Associate Professor, 2013/04 - Today
• Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Visiting Scholar, 2012/04 - 2013/03
• Doshisha University, Institute for Language and Culture, Associate Professor, 2010/04 - 2013/03
• International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 「日本的教育文化の複数地域展開に関する比較研究--ブラジル・フィリピン・ハワイ・アメリカの日系教育史を中心に--」（研究代表者：根川幸男）, Joint Research Fellow, 2013 -
• International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 「新大陸の日系移民の歴史と文化」（研究代表者：細川周平）, Joint Research Fellow, 2011 -
• Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University, Assistant Professor, 2006/04 - 2010/03
• Kobe Women's University, 2005 - 2006
• Japan-America Society of Hawaii, Director of Sister Schools Program, 2004 - 2005
• University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of American Studies, Instructor, 2001 - 2002

Education

• University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Department of American Studies, 1994/08 - 2004/08
• Doshisha University, アメリカ研究科, 1992/04 - 1994/09
• Amherst College, Department of American Studies, 1989/09 - 1991/05
• Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English, 1985/04 - 1989/03

Degree

• Ph.D., University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Aug. 2004
• Sep. 1994

Association Memberships

• アジア系アメリカ文学研究会
• Organization of American Historians
• Association for Asian Studies
• Association for Asian American Studies
• American Studies Association
• 日本移民学会
• 日本アメリカ学会

Published Papers

• The Pacific War and Awakening Ethnic Pride: The Image of Japanese Americans Projected on the Takarazuka Revue's Production of Hawaii On That Day
  Pacific and American Studies, 25 101 - 119, Mar. 2025, Scientific journal
• From 'Vanishing Race' to Friendly Ally: Japanese American Perceptions of Native Hawaiians during the Interwar Years
  Hiromi Monobe
  The Japanese Journal of American Studies, The Japanese Journal of American Studies, 23 73 - 95, Jun. 2013, Scientific journal
  

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• The 'position' of Nikkei in the racial hierarchy of Hawai'i : a study of Japanese American perception of native Hawaiians during the interwar years
  物部 ひろみ
  立命館言語文化研究 = 立命館言語文化研究, 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所, 21(4) 163 - 173, Mar. 2010, Research institution
  

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• ハワイにおける「第二世問題」—プロジェクトA3 日本人の国際移動研究会 2008年度研究経過報告
  物部 ひろみ
  立命館言語文化研究 / 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所 [編], 立命館大学, 20(4) 99 - 101, Mar. 2009, Research institution
• From Japanese Language School to Cooking Classes: Education of Japanese American Nisei Women in interwar Hawaii
  物部 ひろみ
  立命館言語文化研究 / 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所 [編], 立命館大学国際言語文化研究所, 20(1) 187 - 199, Sep. 2008, Research institution
• 戦間期におけるハワイ日系人の帰農運動--奥村多喜衛と二世自作農
  物部 ひろみ
  移民研究年報 = The annual review of migration studies / 日本移民学会 編, 日本移民学会, (12) 45 - 67, Mar. 2006, Scientific journal
• Japanese American Nisei's Politics and Ideologies in Interwar Hawai'i: The Intersection of Americanization and Racial Expansion
  Hiromi Monobe
  同志社アメリカ研究 = Doshisha American studies, Center for American Studies, Doshisha University, 42 113 - 130, Mar. 2006, Research institution
  

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• 「戦間期におけるハワイ日系人の帰農運動ー奥村多喜衛と二世自作農」
  物部 ひろみ
  『移民研究年報』, 日本移民学会, 12(12) 45 - 67, 2006, Scientific journal
• 奥村多喜衛とハワイにおける「米化」啓発運動
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学文学部教育学研究室編『多文化社会ハワイを生み出す教育～戦間期、同志社人による日系市民教育活動』, 2005
• Shaping an Ethnic Leadership: Takie Okumura and the 'Americanization' of the Nisei in Hawai'i 1919-1945
  Hiromi Monobe
  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004, Doctoral thesis
• "The Embedded Messages in James T. Hamada's Don't Give Up the Ship, the First Japanese American Novel in English"
  Hiromi Monobe
  AALA Journal, 6 93 - 104, 2000
• The Alchemy of World War II: A Literary and Historical Analysis of Japanese American Identity
  Hiromi Monobe
  M.A. thesis, Doshisha University, 1994, Master thesis

MISC

• S.B.ニコルズ伝—スチューアト・バートン・ニコルズ伝 アーモスト大学と同志社の交流
  スチューアト・バートン・ニコルズ伝 編集委員会
  May 2024
• Book Review: Barbara F. Kawakami, Picture Bride Stories
  Hiromi Monobe
  The Hawaiian Journal of History, 51 194 - 196, Dec. 2017, Book review
• 書評：李里花著『「国がない」ディアスポラの歴史—戦前のハワイにおけるコリア系移民のナショナリズムとアイデンティティ』
  物部ひろみ
  移民研究年報, 23 174 - 176, Jun. 2017, Book review
• When I Was a Student at Amherst College, 1989-1991
  Hiromi Monobe
  キリスト教社会問題研究, Doshisha University, 60 113 - 126, 2011, Others
  

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• Book review: Hawai Nikkei Nisei to kirisutokyou imin kyouiku: senkanki Hawaian-bodo no Amerikaka kyouiku katudou , by Yoshida Ryo
  物部 ひろみ
  The annual review of migration studies, 日本移民学会, 15 120 - 126, Mar. 2009, Book review
• 同志社・ハワイ間交流者プロフィール、日本ハワイおよび同志社ハワイ交流史年表
  物部 ひろみ
  『同志社・ハワイ・日本ー知られざる日米交流史ー』同志社大学国際センター, 155 - 167, 2008, Introduction research institution
• 書評：白水繁彦編著『移動する人びと、変容する文化ーグローバリゼーションとアイデンティティ』
  物部 ひろみ
  図書新聞, 2893, 2008, Book review
• 翻訳：ポール・F・フーパー著「連帯する恩恵者ー日本とハワイの関係におけるハイライトー」
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社・ハワイ・日本ー知られざる日米交流史ー, 39 - 53, 2008
• 翻訳：中川芙佐著『土佐からハワイへ～奥村多喜衛の軌跡/From Tosa to Hawaii: the Footsteps of Takie Okumura』
  物部 ひろみ
  高知新聞社, 2001, Others

Books etc

• "Hawaii Nisei and Kengakudan, a Group Tour to Their Ancestral County Japan," Transborder Nisei: Japanese Americans and Education during the 1930s
  MONOBE Hiromi
  Gendai Shiryo Shuppan, 2016, Joint work, 77-101, Scholarly book
• 「熊本県における日系二世の留学ー熊本海外協会をめぐる教育ネットワークの形成」吉田亮編著『アメリカ日系二世と越境教育ー1930年代を主にして』
  物部 ひろみ
  不二出版, 2012, Joint work, 135-174, Scholarly book
• "The Intersection of 'Americanization' and 'Racial Expansion': Nisei Identity Politics in Prewar Hawai'i" in Christian Collet and Pei-te Lien (eds.)The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans
  Hiromi Monobe
  Temple University Press, 2009, Joint work, 153-167, Scholarly book
• ony during the 1920s" in Jon Thares Davidann (ed.) Hawai'i at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War
  Hiromi Monobe
  University of Hawai'i Press, 2008, Joint work, 119-145, Scholarly book
• 「ハワイ日系市民の政治活動とアイデンティティ〜1920年代から1930年代の指導者たち」米山裕・河原典史編著『日系人の経験と国際移動』
  物部 ひろみ
  人文書院, 2007, Joint work, 80-100, Scholarly book

Presentations

• オーテス・ケーリと同志社大学の戦後教育：リベラルアーツを通しての「ボーイズ」育成
  同志社大学人文科学研究所 第４研究会, 07 Sep. 2024, Oral presentation
• 冷戦期アメリカの帰米二世：アジア研究に貢献した日本語図書館司書の事例
  Hiromi Monobe
  26th Annual Asian Studies Conference Japan, 06 Jul. 2024, Public symposium
• オーテス・ケーリと戦後日本の大学教育：同志社アーモスト館における教育的実践と成果
  同志社大学人文科学研究所 第４研究会, 16 Mar. 2024, Oral presentation
• 太平洋戦争と覚醒する民族的誇り--1940年代日本の演劇が描くハワイ日系人--
  物部ひろみ
  2023年度日本演劇学会全国大会, 24 Jun. 2023, Oral presentation
• “Aloha from Japan’s Hawaii: Localized Hawaiian Culture at the Joban Hawaiian Center in Fukushima”
  MONOBE Hiromi
  The 9th International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2015, Adelaide, Australia (July 6, 2015)
• "Building Interracial and Intergenerational Coalitions: Nisei Pioneer Statesmen and Their Political Activities in Prewar Hawai'i"
  MONOBE Hiromi
  The 2014 Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, 2014, San Francisco, California (April 17, 2014)
• "From Poor Man’s Paradise to Hope for Tomorrow: The Representation and Practice of Hawaiian Culture at the Joban Hawaiian Center in Fukushima"
  MONOBE Hiromi
  The 2014 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (March 28, 2014)
• 「戦間期ハワイにおける教育活動と日系社会: 伏見宮記念奨学会と東洋文庫」
  物部 ひろみ
  国際日本文化研究センター「日本的教育文化の複数地域展開に関する比較研究」共同研究会, 2013, 京都、2013年6月15日
• "Turning into 'Ideal' Japanese American Brides: Nisei Girls Studying at Christian Middle Schools in Interwar Japan”
  物部 ひろみ
  The 2013 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 2013, San Diego, California
• "Studying Abroad in the Ancestral Country: Japanese American Students in Kumamoto Prefecture during the 1920s and 1930s"
  MONOBE Hiromi
  The 8th International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2013, Macau (June 24, 2013)
• 「日系二世の日本留学と県人ネットワーク ―熊本海外協会の事例を考察する」
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学人文科学研究所公開講演会, 2011, 同志社大学
• 「ハワイの日系一世指導者〜奥村多喜衛の活動と思想」
  物部 ひろみ
  ユタ日報研究会, 2010, 長野県松本市、松本市県立図書館
• 「奥村多喜衛と曽我部四郎」
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学スピリット・ウィーク, 2009, 同志社大学
• 「ハワイにおける多民族性と日系人の『位置』」
  物部 ひろみ
  立命館大学国際シンポジウム「環太平洋地域における日本人の国際移動」, 2009, 立命館大学
• 「同志社とハワイ日系二世留学生」
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学人文科学研究所公開講演会, 2009, 同志社大学
• "Community Empowerment, Gender Confinement: Transnational Education for Nisei Women in the Prewar Japanese Community in Hawai'i"
  MONOBE Hiromi
  The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii
• 最初の日系アメリカ人文学、James T. HamadaのDon't Give Up the Shipの歴史性に関する一考察
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学英文学会年次大会, 2006, 京都
• 戦間期におけるハワイ日系二世のポリティカル・ストラテジー：白人との協調とエスニック・コミュニティーの結束
  物部 ひろみ
  アメリカ学会第３９回年次大会, 2005, 京都
• 二世のより良き未来のために：1920-1930年代のハワイにおける日系人の帰農運動
  物部 ひろみ
  日本移民学会第１５回年次大会, 2005, 仙台
• Americanizing Hawai'i's Japanese: A Transnational Partnership and the Politics of Racial Harmony in the Era of Immigration Exclusion
  物部 ひろみ
  The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2005, Los Angeles, California
• 奥村多喜衛とハワイにおける「米化」啓発運動
  物部 ひろみ
  同志社大学社会学部「教育文化学科」新設記念シンポジウム「多文化社会ハワイを生み出す教育～戦間期、同志社人による日系市民教育活動」, 2005, 京都
• Constructing the Future of the Nisei in Hawai'i: An Analysis of James T. Hamada's Don't Give Up the Ship, the First Japanese American Novel in English
  物部 ひろみ
  The 2003 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, 2003, San Francisco, California
• Becoming Full-Fledged American: Local Japanese Expectations towards the Nisei Generation during the Interwar Years
  物部 ひろみ
  The 2003 East-West Center International Graduate Conference, 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Invisible Thread: The Japanese Government and the Americanization Movement among the Nikkei in Hawai'i during the 1920s
  物部 ひろみ
  Crossroads: Hawai'i's Role in Interwar Japanese Cultural & Political Internationalism, 2001, Honolulu, Hawaii
• The Emergence of the "Nisei Problem": The Local Japanese Community in Hawai'i during the 1920s
  物部 ひろみ
  The Tenth East-West Center Participants Conference, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Entering the Middle Class: The Americanization of Nisei Men during the 1940s and 1950s
  物部 ひろみ
  The Fifteenth National Conference, The Association for Asian American Studies, 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii
• ハワイにおける先住民運動について
  物部 ひろみ
  第六回AALAフォーラム, 1998, 神戸

Research Projects

• Educational Reconstruction in Postwar Japan and Japanese American Christianity
  吉田 亮; 田中 智子; 物部 ひろみ; 竹本 英代; 高橋 典史
  竹本は、北米外国伝道協議会による日本語学校設立運動を調べ、特に1948年に設立された東京日本語学校の設立経緯を明らかにした。協議会は、48年までに500名の宣教師を日本に派遣することを決定し、宣教師の日本語学習についてはイェール大学かバークレイ大学で１年学んだ後に２年目に日本で学ぶこととし、日本語学校を建設する場所として京都を選定したこと、しかし朝鮮戦争勃発後は東京日本語学校にも支援していくこととなった。 田中は、京都帝大キリスト教講座の担当者を調べることで、戦前戦後と京都に連続的な宗教学会のネットワークが継続しており、占領期における本講座復興を可能にする人的ベースを形成していた可能性を指摘した。戦前戦後の教授陣の授業内容、在学生の研究内容のデータ化によって、同志社神学科には京都帝大教員が非常勤講師として出講したこと、京都帝大着任以前に京都の仏教系諸学校に所属した時期から出講した人物も多かった。 高橋は、常光浩然を事例にした仏教の立場からの国際的平和運動の展開を分析した。常光は戦後においては原爆の被害などのつらい戦争体験・日本仏教の戦争責任問題・仏教界の危機的状況を踏まえて国境・宗教・宗派を越えて連帯することを可能にした平和運動への積極的関与、及び仏教の近代化・国際的振興に向けた活動を展開した。 吉田は、北米外国伝道協議会の活動（1945－47）を追うことで、その目的がキリスト教による日本の民主化であったこと、対象と方法は現地主体の再建支援、リーダー育成、国民全体にキリスト教メッセージを浸透・根付かせるであったこと、他機関との関係においては教団・教育同盟・他キリスト教機関との協力、経済・人的支援を中心に広範な共同事業（指導）が進められる一方で、日本政府・SCAP・皇室から公的支援は無かったこと、成果としては日本を「前進プラン」実行のひな形として位置づけようとした。, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2019/04 -2023/03, Coinvestigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• Educational Works of Japanese American Religious Groups among their Second Generation Groups During World War II
  Yoshida Ryo
  The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how Japanese Americans developed the eduational works among their compatriots who were not relocated in Hawaii and the U.S. during World War II.This study particularly focused on both geographical and religious differences.Fist of all, These Japanese Americans lived in Hawaii, Chicago, New York, and even Internment Camp concentrated in Americanizing those compatriots for their ethnic survival. In other words, they did not attempt to assimilate to the larger society. Second, their activities had autonomous, independent-minded characters so that they aggressively proved themselves as American citizens. Third, they took advantaged of Americanization works to continue and develop their ethnic community and culture (including religion). Finally, those who lived in Chicago and New York pursuited the trans-generational, trans-racial activities., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2015/04 -2020/03, Coinvestigator, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• Transnationalism in American Studies and Future of Area Studies
  Keiko Ikeda Keiko; Bestor Theodore; Kelly William; Yano Chris; Stevens Carolynn; Fine Kathleen; White Merry; Whitelaw Gavin; Dominguez Virginia; Desmond Jane
  This study centered around the questin of how the area studies can survives in the face of global disciplinary reorganization. Working together with American researchers, we examined the directions of transnational area studies from multi-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives and searched for a new model of area studies in the age of globalization. More concretely, we examined 1) Discursive change in Transnational American Studies in the U.S., quantitative and qualitative change in international programs, curriculum change; 2) Restructuring of area studies program in Japan and U.S.;3) the issues related to scholarly identity and career development., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 2015/04 -2019/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• Ecucational Activities among Japanese Nisei by Japanese Religious Groups in the 1930s
  YOSHIDA RYO; MONOBE Hiromi; KOJIMA Masaru; TAKEMOTO Hideyo; HONDA Aya
  This study demonstrates the characteristics of the educationalactivities targeting second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, by Japanese religious groups in Hawaii and the Pacific coast states in the 1930s. In particular, this study investigates those educational activities by examining three factors that determined these activities: Americanization education, moral education, and transnational education. It argues that these religious groups played a role, as “Japanese American” religious groups, in reinforcing “American citizenship” values as well as “transnational” values. Ultimately, this study shows how these religious groups wanted the Nisei to take advantage of the cultural and social resources and influences of both countries., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2011/04 -2015/03, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• The Nisei generation's educational experience in Japan
  YOSHIDA Ryo; MONOBE Hiromi; KOJIMA Masaru; NOIRI Naomi; AZUMA Eiichiro
  This research project has two purposes : to investigate how four variables (geography, age, religion, sex) affected the education received in Japan by the Nisei (second-generation Japanese born in North America with dual citizenship) who were sent by their parents back to Japan for schooling, and to demonstrate how their educational experience influenced both Japanese and American society. Unlike those Nisei who were sent to the Tokyo area, the main purpose of sending young Nisei to the prefectures from which their parents had emigrated was for them to acquire the "culture of their heritage" by enrolling in elementary school, since most were young enough to enter this level of the school system. Many Nisei boys who were sent to study in Kyoto were there to receive professional licenses as Buddhist priests, but Buddhist Nisei schooling in Kyoto promoted the indigenization of Buddhism in America. Most of the young Nisei women who came to Japan were selected from among the elite in each Japanese community in North America. The Nisei's schooling in Japan was influenced by regional, state, and national contexts. In Wakayama, their educational experience led to a shift in the purpose of public schooling on Terminal Island in Southern California from "Americanizing" a foreign population to enabling the Nisei to be bicultural. In Kumamoto, it served to strengthen a transnational network of people from Kumamoto that extended across both Japan and North America. In Okinawa it promoted upward mobility., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 2008 -2010, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Doshisha University
• An Interdisciplinary Study of the International Movement of the Japanese in the Pacific Region
  YONEYAMA Hiroshi; SAKAGUCHI Mitsuhiro; YAMAZAKI Yuko; KAWAHARA Norifumi; IZUMI Masumi; MINAMIKAWA Fuminori; TODOROKI Hiroshi; HAYASHI BRIAN MASARU; MONOBE Hiromi; MIYASHITA Takashi; AZUMA Eiichiro; GUTHRIE-SHIMIZU Sayuri; NIIYA Brian
  Three analytical objectives of the project were achieved : (1) Formation of Japanese communities in the Pacific Rim Region ; (2) Relationship between local governments and Japanese residents ; (3) Contribution of the international movement of the Japanese to the formation of the "Pacific World." In addition, uses of the geographic information system (GIS) in the study of international migration were explored., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 2006 -2009, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Ritsumeikan University
• Japanese American leadership and the "Nisei Problem" in Hawaii during the 1920s and 1930s
  アメリカ政府, The East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship, 奨学寄附金, 1998/08 -2002/05, Competitive research funding
• Japanese American history and literature in Hawaii
  経団連、The Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation, The University of Hawaii Foundation, 皇太子奨学金, 奨学寄附金, 1994/08 -1996/07, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• The involvement of the Japanese government in the effort to Americanize the Nikkei in prewar Hawaii
  Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, The Minae and Miki Kajiyama Graduate Scholarship, 奨学寄附金, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• 戦間期ハワイにおける日系二世の政治活動
  同志社ハワイ寮基金委員会, 同志社ハワイ寮基金, 奨学寄附金, Competitive research funding
• The Back-to-the-farm Movement among Hawaii Nisei during the Interwar Years
  University of Hawaii Foundation, The Arts and Sciences Advisory Council Award, 各種団体からの研究助成, Competitive research funding
• The Americanization and Nisei womanhood in interwar Hawaii
  American Association of University Women, The Pacific Fellowship, 各種団体からの研究助成, Competitive research funding
• Japanese American history and literature
  Amherst College, 新島奨学金, 奨学寄附金, Competitive research funding