Sarah Kovner

About me:

Sarah Kovner's research and teaching focus on Japanese History, Gender History, and International History. She received her A.B. from Princeton in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Columbia in 2004. Her current project, "Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan," uses social history to analyze how people experience the loss of empire and re-negotiate national sovereignty. She is also the author of an article forthcoming in the Journal of Asian Studies, "When Flesh Glittered: Sex Markets in Occupied Japan."

Courses:

Modern Japanese History: History and Memory in the Twentieth Century

Modern Korea: Power and Protest

Gender and Sexuality in Japan, 1600-Present

Occupying Power: Military Rule of Civilian Populations in the 20th Century