LEUPP, Gary P. 1956-

PERSONAL: Born January 19, 1956, in AK; son of Gene M. and Ruth E. (a homemaker; maiden name, Nelson) Leupp; married Mari Tsutsumi (a homemaker), April 27, 1983; children: Sophia M., Erik K. Education: University of Hawaii—Manoa, B.A., 1978, M.A., 1980; University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1989. Politics: "Anti-imperialist."

ADDRESSES: Home—Somerville, MA. Office— Department of History, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Tufts University, Medford, MA, assistant professor, 1988-95, associate professor of history, 1995—, adjunct professor of comparative religion, 1998—.

WRITINGS:

Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1992.

Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1995.

Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900, Continuum (New York, NY), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on weaving workshops in Tokugawa Kyoto, urban gang violence in Tokugawa Japan, and ethnic consciousness and racemixing in early modern Japan.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Historical Review, February, 1995, review of Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, p. 211; December, 1997, review of Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan, p. 1552.

Choice, June, 1996, review of Male Colors, p. 1686.

Contemporary Sociology, January, 1997, review of Male Colors, p. 73.

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, December, 1994, review of Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, p. 587.

Historian, spring, 1994, review of Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, p. 574; summer, 1997, review of Male Colors, p. 899.

Journal of Asian and African Studies, August, 1998, Joseph A. Murphy, review of Male Colors, p. 309.

Journal of Homosexuality, February, 2001, review of Male Colors, p. 154.

Journal of Urban History, May, 1998, review of Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan, p. 507.

Reference and Research Book News, July, 1996, review of Male Colors, p. 36.

online

International Gay and Lesbian Review Online, http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/oneigla/onepress/ (April 17, 2003), Joseph R. Hawkins, review of Male Colors.

Tufts University Web Site, http://ase.tufts.edu/ (October 22, 2004), author profile.*