Joseph Seeley JOSEPH ANDREW SEELEY 450 Serra Mall, Bldg 200, Stanford, CA 94305 (385) 722-7607 jseeley@stanford.edu EDUCATION Ph.D (In Progress), History, Stanford University B.A. (2013), History, summa cum laude, Brigham Young University, 3.99 GPA Minor: Korean A.S. (2007), summa cum laude, Dixie State College, 3.98 GPA PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2017: Graduate Instructor, Department of History, Stanford University HIST 97S: Toxic Water and the "Airpocalypse": Industrial Pollution and Society in Modern East Asia 2015-2016: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Stanford University HIST 103D/EARTHSYS 112: Human Society and Environmental Change HIST 96C/196C: Modern Japanese History HIST 98/198: Modern Chinese History 2012-2013: Research Assistant, Department of History, Brigham Young University Research on historical controversies effect on modern Korean foreign relations, translate and analyze North Korean educational propaganda 2011-2012: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Brigham Young University HIST 293: World War II HIST 341: China since 1200 HIST 202: World Civilization from 1500 PUBLICATIONS Articles Joseph Seeley and Aaron Skabelund, Tigers Real and Imagined in Korea s Physical and Cultural Landscape in Environmental History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2015): 475 503. Kirk W. Larsen and Joseph Seeley, Simple Conversation or Secret Treaty? The Taft-Katsura Memorandum in Korean Historical Memory in The Journal of Korean Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 59-92. In Pursuit of the Beast : Tiger Hunting as Imperial Benevolence in Colonial Korea in Ohio University Undergraduate Journal of History, Vol. 3 (2013): 13-23.
JOSEPH ANDREW SEELEY PAGE 2 Pleas for Toleration Against the Call of Treason: The 1890 Shanghai Protestant Missionary Conference and the Controversy over Chinese Rites in Thetean, Vol. 41 (2012): 125-140. PRESENTATIONS "'Bite, Bite against the Iron Cage': The Colonial Seoul and Taipei Zoos and Empire s Ambivalent Dreamscape." Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, March 17, 2017. "Obliterating the Yalu: Japanese Bridge Construction and the 'Sedentarization' of the Sino-Korean Border, 1894-1911." Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program Lunch Series, Stanford University, October 17, 2016. "Japanese Colonial Aquaculture and the Environmental Legacies of Sup'ung Dam Construction on the Yalu River." Asian Studies Conference Japan, International Christian University, July 2, 2016. "Frozen Paths, Fluid Barriers: The Seasonal Geographies of Yalu River Border Security, 1931-1945." East Asian Studies Workshop Symposium, Stanford University, June 2, 2016. "Frozen Paths, Fluid Barriers: The Seasonal Geographies of Yalu River Border Security, 1931-1945." Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Utah, October 1, 2015. With Aaron Skablund, Tigers Real and Imagined in Korea s Physical and Cultural Landscape. College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, June 18, 2015. With Aaron Skabelund, Tigers Real and Imagined in Korea s Physical and Cultural Landscape. Environmental History Group, Korean History Research Association, Seoul, June 12, 2015. Reinvented Relationships: Tigers in the Korean Physical and Cultural Landscape. Phi Alpha Theta Utah Regional History Conference, Utah State University, March 23, 2013. Imagining a Controversy: The Taft-Katsura Memorandum in Korean Historical Memory. Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, West Yellowstone, MT, October 12, 2012. Double-edged Advocacy for a Dying Kingdom: Ernest Bethel and The Korea Daily News' plea for Chosôn Korea. Phi Alpha Theta Utah Regional History Conference, Westminster College, March 31, 2012. Pleas for Toleration Against the Call of Treason: The 1890 Shanghai Protestant Missionary Controversy and the Controversy over Chinese Rites. Presented at Phi Alpha Theta Biennial Convention, Orlando, FL, January 3-6, 2012. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
JOSEPH ANDREW SEELEY PAGE 3 Korea Program Prize for Writing in Korean Studies for "Frozen Paths, Fluid Barriers: The Seasonal Geographies of Yalu River Border Security, 1931-1945," Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Korea Program, Stanford University, 2016. Confucius Scholarship, Institute for International Students, Nanjing University, 2013. Fellowship for Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Summer Program, Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, Brigham Young University, summer 2013. Outstanding Student Award, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. History of Science, Medicine & Technology Award for Best Paper in Category for Reinvented Relationships: The Tiger's Changing Place in the Korean Physical and Cultural Landscape, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. Sechin Jagchid Award in Non-Western History for Best Paper in Category for Imagining a Controversy: The Taft-Katsura 'Secret Treaty' in Korean Historical Memory, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. First Place (Advanced Category) for speech entitled 한국어의특징 (The unique attributes of the Korean language), BYU Korean Language and Culture Club Annual Speech Contest, March 25, 2013. Edwin S. Hinckley Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. Brigham Young University History Department Research Travel Grant, May 2012. Office of Research and Creative Activities Undergraduate Research Grant for Imagining a Controversy: The Taft-Katsura Memorandum in Korean Historical Memory, Brigham Young University, 2012. First Place (History) for Adversary of Empire: Tigers in the Japanese Imperial Imagination, Mary Lou Fulton Mentored Student Research Conference, 2012. Sechin Jagchid Award in Non-Western History for Best Paper in Category for Pleas for Toleration against the Call of Treason: The 1890 Shanghai Protestant Missionary Controversy and the Controversy over Chinese Rites, Department of History, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012. Best Undergraduate Paper for Double-Edged Advocacy for a Dying Kingdom: Ernest Bethel and The Korea Daily News' Plea for Chosôn Korea at Phi Alpha Theta Utah Regional History Conference, 2012. First Place (Advanced Category) for speech entitled 초기한미관계의아픈역사 (The painful history of early U.S.-Korean relations), BYU Korean Language and Culture Club Annual Speech Contest, March 29, 2012.
JOSEPH ANDREW SEELEY PAGE 4 Foreign Language and Area Studies Scholarship (Korean), Brigham Young University, 2011-2012. Elva Pedersen Jorgenson Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2011-2012. Dean s List, College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, Brigham Young University, Winter 2008, Winter 2011-Fall 2013. Brigham Young Scholarship, Brigham Young University, 2011, 2008. Academic Scholarship, Dixie State College, 2006-2007. SERVICE President, Phi Alpha Theta (Beta Iota Chapter), Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. Editor-in-Chief, Thetean (Student History Journal), Brigham Young University, 2012-2013. Associate Editor, Thetean (Student History Journal), Brigham Young University, winter 2012. MEMBERSHIPS Association for Asian Studies Phi Alpha Theta (Beta Iota Chapter), Brigham Young University, 2008-2013. RELATED EXPERIENCE English Teacher: Busan, South Korea, January 2009 November 2010 Volunteer-taught a weekly English conversation class while completing a two-year proselyting mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Korea. Junior Ranger Instructor: Zion National Park, UT, Summer 2007, Summer 2008 Prepared educational material for and instructed children aged 6-12 about the ecology and human history of Zion National Park LANGUAGES Japanese: Advanced reading, speaking, listening, and writing Korean: Advanced reading, speaking, listening, and writing Chinese (Mandarin): Advanced reading, speaking, listening, and writing German: Beginner, 2 semesters at college COMMUNITY OUTREACH
JOSEPH ANDREW SEELEY PAGE 5 With Aaron Skabelund, Tigers Real and Imagined in Korea s Physical and Cultural Landscape, Bokja Girl s High School, Cheonan, Korea, June 19, 2015. RELEVENT GRADUATE COURSEWORK HIST 392G: Modern Korea; HIST 394D: Manchuria: Cradle of Conflict, Cockpit of Asia; HIST 498C: Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 1; HIST 398: Major Topics in Modern Chinese History; History 401A: Spatial History: Concepts, Methods, Problems; HIST 498D: Japanese Imperial Archives, Part 2; HIST 303J: Water in World History; HIST 306D: World History; HIST 496A: Research Seminar in Chinese History; HIST 396D: Historiography of Modern Japan; HIST 491A: Modern Korea Research Seminar; HIST 395B: Early Modern Japan.