Department of History
Assistant Professor of Japanese History

Suzanne O'Brien's areas of interest range from early modern to contemporary Japanese history, particularly cultural and gender history. Her most recent project is a study of changes in ideas and practices of daily life, including hairstyles and diet, across the nineteenth century. She has also worked on movements for redress for Asian victims of the Imperial Japanese military during World War II.

For more information see:      http://www.bu.edu/history/faculty.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Introduction to the History of Modern Japan (CAS HI 391)
Interwar Japan and the Pacific War (CAS HI 488)
The Samurai in Myth and History (CAS HI 381 / LJ 281)
The Historians Craft: Representing the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki  (CAS HI 200)