University of Southern California

Graduate Students


Benjamin Uchiyama


Contact Information

E-mail: buchiyam@usc.edu

Education

  • B.A. University of California, Davis, 2001
  • M.A. Harvard University, 2005



Research


Summary Statement of Research Interests


  • Modern Japan (particularly mass culture and war mobilization in 1930s and 1940s)

Research Specialties


  • Modern Japan, Cultural History, World War II

Honors and Awards

  • Esterline Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference, Pomona, CA, 2011  
  • Fulbright-IIE Grant for Dissertation Research in Japan, 2008-2009   
  • Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008-2009   
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2006-2007   
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2005-2006   
  • College Merit Award (five-year fellowship package), USC , Fall 2005   
  • Noma-Reischauer Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Publishing, Ltd., Fall 2005   
  • Honorable Mention, Joseph Fletcher Memorial Award for Excellence in the Writing of the A.M. Thesis, Committee on Regional Studies - East Asia, Harvard University, Spring 2005