Dr. Yasuhide Kawashima
Professor of History
YASUHIDE KAWASHIMA, Professor of History, teaches a wide range of courses in early American history, American legal history, and East Asia at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s of Law from Keio University (Tokyo) and his Ph.D. from University of California, Santa Barbara, and studied at Harvard Law School as a Charles Warren Fellow in American Legal History. He is the author of four books, including Puritan Justice and the Indian (Wesleyan, 1986) and The Tokyo Rose Case (Kansas, 2007), 35 articles in New England Quarterly, Journal of Family Law, Journal of Social History, American Journal of Legal History, Journal of Forest History, American Indian Law Review, and other journals in diverse fields, and over 60 review essays and book reviews. He has served on two boards of directors and held various other offices in national associations. He has received numerous fellowships and grants from Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, John Carter Brown Library, Social Science Research Council, Japan Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. He was the runner-up for the Forest History Society’s Weyerhaeuser Award for the best article (1983) and was co-winner of the Webb-Smith Essay Prize (1992). Currently, he is at work on two books, “Forensic Medicine in Early America” and “History of American Immigration Law.”
Faculty Profile
Classes Taught:
- Early America, American Legal, East Asia
