American History (society and culture, immigrants, education), national integration and education, nationalism/ethnicity and identity
Research theme
I entered academia through U.S. history of education, via American Studies, and earned a degree in immigration history. My current interest is in the relationship between discourse, world perception, and identity formation, particularly through the educational functions of popular culture, large-scale events, and the media.
Detailed contents of research
I am interested in the relationship between the ideologies and systems that underpin the establishment and maturation of modern industrial society and the formation and transformation of collective identity. In the past, I have pursued the above interest mainly through the process of assimilation and adaptation to American society, focusing on Swedish immigrants to Chicago and its suburbs in the United States. As of 2025, I am stepping into oral history documentation and research of postwar Japanese history, including participation in the “Life History of Hokkaido” project (to be published in 2026), with 150 authors.
Simplified curriculum vitae
1999-2001: Research Associate, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo; 2002-04: Lecturer, Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University; 2004-07: Associate professor, Institute of Language and Culture Studies, Hokkaido University; 2007-April 2022: Associate professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University; May 2022-present: Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University.
Research achievements
Eiko Tsuchida, “Henkyo-toshi kara Senshin-toshi e: Globalism jidai no Oregon-shu Portland to sono Rekishi-teki Haikei (From Frontier City to Advanced City: Portland, Oregon in the Age of Globalism and Its Historical Background),” in Ayumu Kaneko and Yoshiyuki Kido ed., Heito ni Kousuru America-shi: Majority wo Toinaosu (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2022), 185-205.
Eiko Tsuchida, “Hokubei Hokuseibu Enganchihou ni okeru Chiiki Identity Hyosho: Seattle Vancouver ni tsuiteno Shiron (Representations of Local Identities in the Pacific Northwest: an Essay on Seattle and Vancouver),” in Masashi Hirosue ed., Umi to Riku no Orinasu Sekaishi: Koushi to Nairiku Shakai (Tokyo: Shunpusha, 2018), Chapter 16, 299-317.
Eiko Tsuchida, “Technology ga Tsukuru Kokumin・Ethnicity－Bunkateki Icon to shiteno Kagaku-gijutsu to Shuudan identity (Nation and Ethnicity Created by Technology: Science and Technology as Cultural Icons and Group Identity),” in Ayumu Kaneko and Yoshiyuki Kido ed., Heito no Jidai no America-shi: Jinshu・Minzoku・Kokuseki wo Kangaeru (Tokyo: Sairyusha, 2017), 185-205.
Eiko Tsuchida, “Minzoku/Kokumin eno Kizoku, Kaikyuu eno Kizoku: Swedish Kyoiku Doumei in Chicago (1915-1956) no Rekishi kara (National Belongings and Class Belongings: From history of the Swedish Educational League in Chicago, 1915-1956),” in Masashi Hirosue, ed. Ekkyosha no Sekaishi: Dorei, Ijuusha, Konketsusha (Tokyo: Shunpusha, 2013), Chapter 12, 251-276.
Eiko Tsuchida, “Technology no Utopia to Taminzoku no Saiten: Chicago Shinpo no Isseiki Bankoku Hakurankai, 1933-34 nen (Technological Utopia and World’s Fairs: A Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, 1933-34),” in The Journal of International Media, Communication, and Tourism Studies, vol. 17 (2013), 13-25.
Eiko Tsuchida, “Technology to Imin no Americanism－Sweden-kei imin-shakai ni yoru Gunkan Monitor to John Ericsson no hyoushou (Technology and an Immigrant Version of Americanism: Swedish-American Representation of the Ironclad Monitor and John Ericsson),” in The American Review 43, 2009, 155-173.
Society Affiliation
Japan Association of American Studies, Japanese Association for American History, Hokkaido American Literature Society, Japan Society for Western History
Classes in charge
Graduate school: Introduction to the Study of Multicultural Society and Education
