Masayoshi Yamada

Education:

B.A., History, Ritsumeikan University; M.A., American Studies, Doshisha University; Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles

Dissertation:

Sounds We Saw, Visions We Heard: The History of Jazz Fandom and the Politics of Imagining the Past and Envisaging a Future through Jazz Listening

Thesis Advisor:

Robin D.G. Kelley, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Topic:

History of Jazz Fandom; History of Music Listening in Prisons

Mentor:

Eric Porter, Professor of History and History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

Current Position:

President's and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz