Gavin James Campbell is professor of history in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Doshisha University
in Kyoto, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and began his
career researching Southern music and culture, publishing results in the Journal of American Folklore,
Musical Quarterly, American Music, and serving four years as music editor for Southern Cultures. In 2004 he
published his first book, Music and the Making of a New South, with UNC Press. More recently he has
turned to transpacific history, with an emphasis on US‐Japan contact in the 19th century. His most recent
publicatons have examined Western tourists' encounter with Japanese etiquette and Japanese toilets. He is
currently writng a book about Niijima Jō, a Japanese samurai who ran away to the US in 1864 and stayed
for nine years before returning to Japan a Christian and educator.