Valerie H. Barske
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Office: 453 CCC Phone: 715-295-5058 E-mail: vbarske@uwsp.edu Title: Lecturer Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign M.A., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign B.A. Oglethorpe University |
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Courses Taught:
History 102 World History Since 1500
History 216 East Asia to 1600
Women's Studies 490/Peace Studies 320 Gendering Peace: Women's Activism in East Asia Seminar
Specialty: Modern Japan, East Asian Civilization, Gender and Women's History, Social Movements and Peace Studies, Colonial Studies
Dissertation: "Performing Embodied Histories: Colonialism, Gender, and Okinawa in Modern Japan"
Publications:
"Performance in East Asia and Oceania," in Gary Xu ed. Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures Vol. 6, East Asia and Pacific Oceania. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. Series Awarded the 2008 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Sources Collection.
"Nuchibana: Okinawans Performing Peace as Historical Protest," in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement 12:3.
"Okinawa Omnibus: A Film Review," in Asian Educational Media Service News and Reviews 4:2.
Awards:
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006-2007
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship to Japan, 2005-2006