Name Beatrice Bodart-Bailey | Role Author | |
Books The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi | ||
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey (born 1942) is a German Australian academic, author, and Japanologist. She was named professor of economics at Kobe University, becoming "the first female and first non-Japanese person actually appointed by the Ministry of Education".
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Biography
Bodart-Bailey was born in Germany. Her early education was in German and British schools. She earned a BA at the Australian National University (ANU). Her master's and doctorate degrees were awarded at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at ANU in Canberra.
Bodart-Bailey's MA thesis investigated "The Political Significance of the Tea Master Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591)". Her 1980 Ph.D. thesis examined "Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658-1714)".
Bodart-Bailey's marriage to an Australian diplomat caused Bodart-Bailey to follow him as his career developed, including postings in Bangkok, Thailand, and Ottawa, Canada.
In 1982-1986, Bodart-Bailey was a visiting professor at Ottawa University, teaching Japanese history. She returned to ANU for post-graduate studies.
Between 1986 and 1995, Bodart-Bailey was granted various research fellowships at ANU.
In 1989-1990, Bodart-Bailey was awarded a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. She has been a professor in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and at Kobe University.
In 1991, Bodart-Bailey became professor of Japanese history at Otsuma Women's University, where she was a founding member of the Department of Comparative Culture.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Beatrice Bodart Bailey, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 30+ publications in 2 languages and 170+ library holdings.