Paul Barclay
Degrees
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
- M.A., University of Minnesota
- B.S., University of Wisconsin
Special interests: Japanese empire; East Asian history; Indigenous Studies; Easton history
Select publications: Kondo the Barbarian: A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan’s Bloodiest Uprising. Manchester: Eastbridge Books Press, 2023. link
“Imperial Japan’s Forever War, 1895-1945.” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, vol. 19, no. 18 (September 15, 2021). link
“Japanese Empire in Taiwan.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press. Article published June 2020. link
“Fascism Carved in Stone: Monuments to Loyal Spirits in Wartime Manchukuo.” In Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right. Edited by Julia Adeney Thomas and Geoff Eley. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, pp. 44-68.
Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945. Oakland: University of California Press, digital 2017; paperback 2018. link
YouTube: “Unburying the Past.” Lehigh Valley Live. May 7, 2023. link
“Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s ‘Savage’ Border.” Podcast What is Asia? Hosted by Nakota DiFonzo. February 6, 2023. link
Honors: Lafayette College Advisor of the Year; Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Research Fellowship; Marquis Distinguished Teaching Award; Visiting Scholar at Kyoto University Center for Integrated Areas Studies; National Endowment for the Humanities Sabbatical Year Fellowship; Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Lecture Award; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow.