Guide to the American Studies Seminars in Japan Records
compiled by Stanford University Archives staff
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
February 2011
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Overview
Call Number: SC0266
Creator:
Stanford University
Title: American Studies Seminars in Japan records
Dates: 1950-1981
Bulk Dates: 1950-1960
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Summary: The records consist mostly of correspondence but also include memoranda, reports, financial documents, syllabi, bibliographies,
clippings, and several photograph albums. Some of the materials relate to seminars held in Kyoto, 1951-1952. There is one
file on establishing an American Studies Program at Stanford, 1953. Collection includes extensive correspondence of Hideo
Kishimoto, 1952-1960, with some typescript articles and talks. Other correspondents include Claude Buss, John D. Goheen, J.
E. Wallace Sterling, George H. Knoles, George H. Kerr, Shinzo Kaji, Morton G. White, and Perry Miller.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
The records were received by the Stanford University Archives via administrative transfer in 1980.
Information about Access
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Cite As
[Identification of item], American Studies Seminars in Japan Records (SC0266). Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
The American Studies Seminars in Japan were jointly sponsored by Stanford and the University of Tokyo and partially funded
by the Ford Foundation. The seminars, held in the summers of 1950 to 1956, were taught by American scholars in various fields
for students at the University of Tokyo. Among the seminar organizers were Hideo Kishimoto and Shinzo Kaji of the University
of Tokyo and George Harmon Knoles and John D. Goheen of Stanford.
Description of the Collection
The records consist mostly of correspondence but also include memoranda, reports, financial documents, syllabi, bibliographies,
clippings, and several photograph albums. Some of the materials relate to seminars held in Kyoto, 1951-1952. There is one
file on establishing an American Studies Program at Stanford, 1953. Collection includes extensive correspondence of Hideo
Kishimoto, 1952-1960, with some typescript articles and talks. Other correspondents include Claude Buss, John D. Goheen, J.
E. Wallace Sterling, George H. Knoles, George H. Kerr, Shinzo Kaji, Morton G. White, and Perry Miller. The collection also
includes the
Bulletin of the Center for American Studies of the University of Tokyo, Nov. 4, 1981, with recollections of the seminars by its participants.
Access Terms
Buss, Claude Albert.
Goheen, John D.
Kaji, Shinzo.
Kerr, George H., 1911-
Kishimoto, Hideo, 1903-1964.
Knoles, George Harmon.
Miller, Perry, 1905-1963.
Stanford University
Sterling, J. E. Wallace, (John Ewart Wallace), 1906-1985
White, Morton Gabriel, 1917-
Intercultural education.
Photoprints.
United States--Study and teaching.
Box 1, Folder 3
Records, class materials
1951
Box 1, Folder 8
Records, clippings of lectures from the Seminars from newspaper The Manichi
1953
Box 2, Folder 3
American Studies Degree at Stanford
1953
Box 2, Folder 8
Notes from John Goheen's Trip
1955 Jun
Box 3, Folder 2
American Studies Seminars Addenda
Box 3, Folder 5
Institute for American Studies at the University of Tokyo, memoranda on
1955
Box 3, Folder 6
Rockefeller Foundation
1952-1958
Box 3, Folder 7
Rockefeller Foundation
1957-1960
Box 3, Folder 8
American Studies Seminar in Kyoto
1951
Box 3, Folder 9
American Studies Seminar in Kyoto
1952
Box 3, Folder 10
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1952-53
Box 3, Folder 11
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1954
Box 3, Folder 12
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1955
Box 3, Folder 13
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1956
Box 3, Folder 14
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1955-1957
Box 3, Folder 15
Hideo Kishimoto correspondence
1958-1960
Box 3, Folder 16
Bulletin of the Center for American Studies of the University of Tokyo, No. 4
1981
Box 4
Photo albums (3): opening ceremonies, seminars, professors, group photographs, parties
1950-1952
Box 5
Photo album: opening session, seminars, professors, group photographs, social activities
1956