Dr. Faison is L.R. Brammer Presidential Professor and the author of Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2007). She is co-editor with Dr. Ruth Barraclough of Gender and Labor in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class, which was published by Routledge in 2009. Most recently she co-edited (with Dr. Alison Fields) Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific (University of Washington Press, 2024). She teaches courses on East Asian and Japanese history, and in 2012 was the recipient of the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Atomic Memories: Legacies of the Cold War in Japan and the United States, and a second that is a social and political history of twentieth century Japan in the form of a biography of the socialist feminist Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980).
Elyssa Faison
