At Home in the Classroom
Bill Tsutsui is an experienced and enthusiastic classroom teacher and student advisor. He has taught undergraduate classes at all levels
in a public flagship university, a private research university, and a small liberal arts college, and he has worked extensively with
graduate students in master’s and doctoral programs. He has also developed online classes and professional development courses for K-12 instructors through the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia and a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant.
He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas
and the Pulling for Kids Award of the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center.
Bill has offered courses on topics including “The History of East Asia,” “Japanese Economic and Business History,” “Entrepreneurship in
East Asia,” “Marginalized Groups and the Construction of National Identity in Japan,” “The Pacific War,” “Godzilla and Global Popular Culture,” “Japan Pop,” and “Japanese Politics and Society,” as well as a range of early modern and modern Japanese history surveys and topical graduate seminars. In 2021, he developed and taught the course "Japanese Monsters" at Harvard University, where he was serving as the Reischauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies. He has also developed workshops and short courses on personal branding, career preparation, and Asian-American leadership for high school students, undergraduates, and working professionals. Bill’s doctoral advisees have won Japan Foundation and Fulbright fellowships and gone on to tenure-track positions at institutions including the University of Alaska Anchorage, Seattle Pacific University, and the University of Southern Arkansas.
in a public flagship university, a private research university, and a small liberal arts college, and he has worked extensively with
graduate students in master’s and doctoral programs. He has also developed online classes and professional development courses for K-12 instructors through the National Consortium for Teaching About Asia and a U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grant.
He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including the W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Kansas
and the Pulling for Kids Award of the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center.
Bill has offered courses on topics including “The History of East Asia,” “Japanese Economic and Business History,” “Entrepreneurship in
East Asia,” “Marginalized Groups and the Construction of National Identity in Japan,” “The Pacific War,” “Godzilla and Global Popular Culture,” “Japan Pop,” and “Japanese Politics and Society,” as well as a range of early modern and modern Japanese history surveys and topical graduate seminars. In 2021, he developed and taught the course "Japanese Monsters" at Harvard University, where he was serving as the Reischauer Distinguished Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies. He has also developed workshops and short courses on personal branding, career preparation, and Asian-American leadership for high school students, undergraduates, and working professionals. Bill’s doctoral advisees have won Japan Foundation and Fulbright fellowships and gone on to tenure-track positions at institutions including the University of Alaska Anchorage, Seattle Pacific University, and the University of Southern Arkansas.