Ken Kawashima (B.A. (1993), M.A. (1994) University of Chicago, History, Phd., New York University, History (2003)) is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies. He is author of The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan (Duke UP, 2009), co-editor of Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader (Cornell UP, 2014), and the English translator of Uno Kozo’s 1953 book, Theory of Crisis (Brill, 2021). He has published articles on modern Japanese history and Japanese colonialism, as well as on Marxist and critical theory in Historical Materialism, boundary 2, positions: Asia culture critique, South Atlantic Quarterly, and Socialist Register. He has published book chapters in Tosaka Jun: A Critical Reader, edited by Ken Kawashima, Fabian Schaeffer and Robert Stolz; The Sage Handbook of Marxism, edited by Alberto Toscano, Sara Ferris, et.al.; Ronsō no Buntai, edited by Gavin Walker and Yutaka Nagahara (Hosei UP, 2024, in Japanese); and Contemporaneia: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, edited by Michael Marder and Giovanni Tusa (MIT, 2024). His most recent article is “Japan’s ’New Pre-War’: Five Dislocations of its Historical Development” in The Socialist Register 2024: A New Global Geometry”, edited by Greg Albo et.al.. As a visiting scholar at Cornell, he is researching the history of capitalist crisis in modern Japan and the problem of historical narration in the discipline of economics during the Cold War era (1945-1991) in Japan and the United States.