Faculty  
Gary Leupp, Professor of History

Email: gary.leupp@tufts.edu
Tel: (617) 627-2426

 


Education

  • Ph.D University of Michigan
  • M.A University of Hawaii
  • B.A. University of Hawaii

Expertise:

  • Japanese History

Research and Scholarship:

  • Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900 (London: Continuum, 2003)
  • Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan (1995).
  • Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan (1992).
  • “Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: An Overview of the Scholarship,” in Michael O'Rourke and Katherine O'Donnell, eds., Queer Masculinities: 1550-1800 (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006)
  • “The Five Men of Naniwa: Gang Violence and Popular Culture in Genroku Osaka,” in James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu, eds., Osaka: The Merchants’ Capital in Tokugawa Japan (New York: Cornell University Press, 1999)
  • “Images of Black People in Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Japan: Race Theory and Colour Consciousness, 1543-1900,” Japan Forum (Oxford University Press), vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 1995)
  • The Weavers of Nishijin: Wage-Labor in Tokugawa Japan (book in progress)