About
I am currently an Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and History at Furman University in Greenville, SC. My research explores what it meant to be a subject of the seventh- through ninth-century Japanese rulers through a study of their changing approaches to the incorporation, assimilation and configuration of immigrants and their descendants. Education
2019 Ph.D., History, University of Southern California
2013 M.A., History, University of Southern California
2007 Certificate, Japanese Language, Inter-University Center Ten-Month Program
2006 B.A. in History with distinction, Yale University. Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.
Publications
Book Chapters
2020 “East Asia’s First World War, 643-668,” in East Asia in the World: Twelve Events That Shaped the Modern International Order, edited by David Kang and Stephan Haggard, Cambridge University Press.
2017 “Approach and Be Transformed: Immigrants in the Nara and Heian State” in Hapa Japan: Constructing Global Mixed Race and Mixed Roots Japanese Identities and Representations, ed. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Ito Center Editions, an imprint of Kaya Press, January 2017.
Translations
2017 “Japanese International Marriages (Kokusai Kekkon): A Longue Durée History, from Early Modern Japan to Imperial Japan,” by Itsuko Kamoto in Hapa Japan: Constructing Global Mixed Race and Mixed Roots Japanese Identities and Representations, ed. Duncan Ryuken Williams, Ito Center Editions, an imprint of Kaya Press, January 2017.
Memberships
American Historical Association
Association for Asian Studies
Project for Premodern Japan Studies, Ritsuryō Translation Project
Ritsuryō Research Group, University of Tokyo
