Books

Under Contract Garrison Life: Militarization and Everyday People in Japan at the Dawn of the Postwar American Empire, under contract with Columbia University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

September 2026       “Militarized Labor in a ‘Demilitarized’ Nation: A History of Official Base Workers in Occupied Japan,” in the Journal of American–East Asian Relations, published online September 2026 with print edition forthcoming in December 2026. (LINK)

August 2024 “Narrating the Common Good: Stories About and Around the United Nations,” with Karoline Postel-Vinay and Pierre-Yves Cadalen, in Narratives, Nations, and Other World Products in the Making of Global History, eds. Jeremy Adelman and Andreas Eckert.

Forthcoming “‘A Justifiable Action’: The Girard Incident, Diplomatic Negotiation, and Official Violence in Postwar Japan,” in Shaping a Peaceful World: The United States and Post-Conflict Diplomacy since 1789, eds. Brian Etheridge, Andrew Johns, and Kelly McFarland, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in September 2026.

Under Review “Nisei Soldiers or Nise Soldiers?: The Role of Impersonation in the Military Occupation of Postwar Japan,” under review with the Journal of Japanese Studies.