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.