Garrett L. Washington

Garrett L. Washington is an American professor of Japanese history. He is an associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He specializes in the religious, spatial, and women's histories in late 19th and early 20th century Japanese society.^[1]

Washington received a B.A. from Rice University. In 2000, he was an Association for International Education Japan Monbushō Scholar with Kyūshū University. He received a diplôme d'études approfondies from the Université de Paris VIII Saint Denis/Vincennes and a doctorate in from Purdue University. He received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship in 2008.^[2]

Washington has written about Japanese Protestantism and the roles of religious organizations in social movements. He is currently researching the history of women and gender in Japan. For his research, he has received the UMass Healey Faculty Research Grant and the Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grant from the Association for Asian Studies.^[3] In 2019, Washington was the Japan International Christian University Foundation Visiting Scholar.

Washington was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University from 2008 to 2009 and a postdoctoral fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He went on to teach at Oberlin College. He currently teaches courses on modern and traditional Japan, Japanese women's history, Japanese imperialism, US-Japan relations, and race, religion and nation in East Asia at UMass. He was a UMass Lilly Teaching Fellow in 2018, and in 2020, he received the College of Humanities and Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award.^[4]

• Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan (2021) University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-8886-2
• "'The Problem of Faith' by Chikazumi Jōkan" in Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer, eds. Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan (2021) University of Hawaii Press. 221–228. ISBN 978-0-8248-8825-1
• Garrett L. Washington, ed. Christianity and the Modern Woman in East Asia (Leiden: Brill, 2018). Including Garrett L. Washington, "Christianity and 'True Education': Yasui Tetsu’s Contribution to Women’s Education in Imperial Japan," 134–162. ISBN 978-90-04-36910-8
• Camille Washington-Ottombre, Garrett L. Washington, and Julie Newman, "Campus sustainability in the US: Environmental management and social change since 1970." Journal of Cleaner Production 196 (20 September 2018): 564–575. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.012
• "St. Luke’s Hospital and the Modernization of Japan" Health and History  Vol. 15, no. 2 (Dec., 2013): 5-28. doi:10.1353/hah.2013.0005
  • Republished in Yun-jae Park, ed., Dong Asia Yeoksa sok'ui Seon'gyo Byeongwon  [Missionary Hospitals in East Asian History] (2015) Yonsei University Press.
• "Preaching Modern Japan: National Imaginaries and Protestant Sermons in Meiji and Taishō Tokyo," in David Yoo and Albert Park, eds. Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America  (2014) University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3947-5
• "Brick for Brick: Chikazumi Jōkan and Buddhism’s Response to the Christian Spatial Menace in Japan." Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review E-Journal  No. 6 (March 2013): 95–120.
• "Pulpits as Lecterns: Discourses of Social Change inside Tokyo’s Protestant Churches, 1890–1920," Japanese Studies  Vol. 29, no. 3 (December 2009): 381–399. doi:10.1080/10371390903298060