Workshops Organized

“American Bases, Japanese Towns: Everyday Life and Militarization in Postwar Japan,” Author’s Book Manuscript Workshop, Program on U.S.–Japan Relations, Harvard University, March 2021.

Invited Talks

“Eye Witnesses to History: Finding Everyday Life in Courts-Martial Files from Occupied Japan,” Washington University in St. Louis, April 2025.

“‘Halt! Tomare! Halt!’: The Nature of Officially Sanctioned Violence in Japan Under U.S. Occupation,” University of Oregon, November 2024.

“‘Any Unusual Incident’: Military Shootings and Courts Martial in Occupied Japan,” University of Vermont, April 2023.

“Official Violence and Historical Anonymity: Finding Evidence of Military Shootings in the Archives of Occupied Japan,” New York University, February 2023.

“A Militarized Peace: East Asia Between World War II and the Korean War,” Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Syracuse University, April 2021.

Conference Presentations

“Japanese Women in the Postwar Occupation: Voices from the U.S. Military Archives,” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies Regional Conference, Stephen F. Austin State University, November 2024.

Discussant for Panel “Perspectives from Modern South Asia,” Annual Graduate Conference, University of Oregon, June 2024.

“‘Prowlers are Reported’: The Discursive Construct of the Japanese ‘Prowler’ in the Base Towns of Occupied Japan,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 2024.

“Militarized Labor in a Demilitarized Nation: The History of Base Workers in Occupied Japan,” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies Regional Conference, University of Houston, November 2023.

“‘The Wild Mood of a Battlefield’: The Kobe Incident of 1952 and the Problem of Military Crime in Japan’s Postwar Base Towns,” New England Association of Asian Studies Regional Conference, Wellesley College, October 2023.

“‘Prowlers are Reported’: The Discursive Construct of the Japanese ‘Prowler’ in the Base Towns of Occupied Japan,” Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Elizabethtown College, October 2023.

“‘A Justifiable Action’: U.S. Soldiers, Japanese Civilians, and Official Violence in Post–World War II Japan,” Post-Conflict Workshop, Georgetown University, June 2023.

“Enforcing the Peace: Shootings of Japanese Civilians by U.S. Soldiers in Occupied Japan,” John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College, January 2023.

“A Wartime Occupation: The Japan Logistical Command and the Final Years of the Allied Occupation,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, Syracuse University, October 2022.

“Con Artists and Conquerors: The Impersonation of U.S. Military Service Members During the Allied Occupation of Japan,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 2022.

“American Trash, Japanese Treasure: Military Garbage in Occupied Japan,” New England Association of Asian Studies Regional Conference, December 2021.

“Policing the Occupation: The U.S. Military Provost Court System in Occupied Japan,” Midwest Conference on Asia Affairs, October 2021.

“The Other Occupation: Living with the U.S. Military Presence in the Base Towns of Postwar Japan,” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, October 2021.

Associates’ Panel: “U.S. Military Bases and Japan’s National Security Strategy,” Program on U.S.–Japan Relations, Harvard University, February 2021.

“Conning the Conquerors: The Impersonation of Military Service Members During the Allied Occupation of Japan,” Program on U.S.–Japan Relations, Harvard University, November 2020.

“Prejudicial Acts: ‘Crime’ and Punishment in the Base Towns of U.S.–Occupied Japan,” Modern America Workshop, Princeton University, February 2019.

“The Kobe Incident and the United Nations,” Narratives of the Global: Contesting and Converging Stories of Global Order Workshop, Princeton University, June 2018.

“Histories of Everyday Life in Japanese Base Towns, 1945–1955,” Junior and Visiting Member Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo, November 2017.

“The United Nations, Japan, and Global History,” Narratives of the Global: Contesting and Converging Stories of Global Order Workshop, Sciences Po, December 2016.

“‘Dawn of Asia’: Tsuji Masanobu, the Korean War, and Images of World War III in 1950s Japan,” Mershon Center for International Security Studies Graduate Student Symposium, The Ohio State University, May 2015.