Joseph Seeley

University of Virginia

 

Member profile details

First name
Joseph
Last name
Seeley
Organization
University of Virginia
Institutional email address
jas5fz@virginia.edu
Main Field/Discipline
History of Modern Japan
Home Region
North America
Research keywords
  • Colonial Korea
  • Colonial Taiwan
  • Diplomacy
  • Environment
  • Interwar
  • Japanese Empire
  • Manchuria
  • Meiji
  • Sino-Japanese Relations
  • Taisho
  • Transwar
  • World War II
Bio
Joseph Seeley is an assistant professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. He specializes in the histories of Korea, the Japanese Empire, and East Asian environmental history. His current book project examines Japanese imperialism along the Yalu River border between northern Korea and China during the period 1894-1945. Drawing on previously unexamined sources in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, he argues that the seasonally changing river was a critical actor in imperial border creation and contestation. He has also previously published articles on animal and environmental histories of Korea and the Japanese Empire and US-Korean diplomatic history.
Representative publications
“Cattle, Viral Invasions, and State-Society Relations in a Colonial Korean Borderland,” Journal of Korean Studies (forthcoming March 2023)

"Reeds, River Islands, and Inter-Imperial Conflict on the Early Twentieth-Century Sino-Korean Border." Water History, Vol. 12 (September 2020): 373–384.

Co-author (with Aaron Skabelund), "'Bite, Bite against the Iron Cage': The Colonial Seoul and Taipei Zoos and Empire’s Ambivalent Dreamscape," The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 79, No. 2 (May 2020): 429-454.

Co-author (with Aaron Skabelund), “Tigers—Real and Imagined—in Korea’s Physical and Cultural Landscape,” Environmental History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2015): 475–503.

Co-author (with Kirk Larsen), “Simple Conversation or Secret Treaty? The Taft-Katsura Memorandum in Korean Historical Memory,” Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 59-92.
Courses taught
Borders, Maps, and Conflict in East Asia
Industrial Pollution and Society in East Asia
Modern Korean History
Premodern Korean History
North Korea
Available for
  • Book Talks
  • Documentaries
  • Guest Articles
  • Guest Lectures
  • Historical Consulting
  • Invited Talks
  • Media Interviews
  • Podcasts
  • Streaming Appearances
  • Television Appearances
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