Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts
Job title
Professor
Degree
Doktor der Philosophie (PhD)(Tübingen University, Germany), MA (Magister)(Tübingen University, Germany; Sophia University, Japan)
Research funding number
60573417
J-Global ID
201101019660754546
Profile
Grants and Research Projects: 2005–2008: University of Tübingen, Japanologie, DFG research project: "Money and Monetary Policies of the Shogunate and Domains in Late Tokugawa Japan: Discourses and Practices." 2008–2009: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York (NY, USA), Postdoctoral Fellow: "Tadano Makuzu." 2009.5–2009.9: University of Tübingen, Japanologie, DFG research project: "Cholera: Health and Hygiene in Nineteenth Century Japan." 2010– : Network Studies in Japanese History, ICC project, Sophia University 2016–2022: Digitial History, JSPS Research Grants (Kaken C) 2018– 2021: Digital Humanities in the classroom, Educational Innovation Project, Sophia University Major research project is the investigation of the social and intellectual network of the Rai family of Hiroshima during the late Tokugawa period. A second research project deals with economic thought of the late Tokugawa period. A third project deals with disaster discourses of the 1850s in Japan. A fourth project deals with Tokugawa women and gender. See my websites: japanese-history.org and jbdb.jp (Subject of research) Network Studies in Tokugawa Japan Economic Thought of Late Tokugawa Japan Reacting to the Past: New Approaches to Critical Thinking and Japanese History Historical and spatial examination of networks in Asia Digital Humanities in History
Research Interests
Japanese history
,premodern history
,women's history
,gender studies
,network studies
,economic thought
,intellectual history
,biography
,medical history
,social and political history
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / History - General /
Humanities & social sciences / History of thought /
10th international conference “Japan: Pre-modern, Modern and Contemporary” (Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Bucharest, Romania) 1 Sep 2023
Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880UKRI (United Kingdom Research and Innovation) and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science): Yano Akiko Akama Ryo Rosina Buckland Alfred Haft Timothy Clark Andrew Gerstle Nakatani Nobuo Hirai Yoshinobu Akeo Keizō Ida Taro Iwasa Shin’ichi John Carpenter Michael Kinski Bettina Gramlich-Oka Scott John Sugimoto Yoshihisa Tsukuda Ikki Ellis Tinios Paul Berry Anna Beerens Matsuba Ryōko Yamamoto Yukari Yamamoto Yoshitaka Yokoya Ken’ichiro
Sophia University