Event

Korean Studies Colloquium

Jeff Bayliss is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College. Professor Bayliss’s research focuses on minority groups and issues of minority identity in modern Japan.  For his dissertation, he examined the manner in which Japan’s two largest minorities, the Koreans and the Burakumin, viewed and interacted with one another during the 1920s through the end of the Pacific War – years during which both groups faced severe discrimination from majority society.  His research sheds new light on the way that similarly disadvantaged groups, facing similar kinds of discrimination at the hands of majority society, relate to one another, and how they cooperate – or fail to cooperate – in their respective struggles for social equality.