Ongoing Research Projects
My ongoing projects explore in local archives and sub-elite experiences that illustrate how understanding Japanese and other non-Western historical archives – written, material and virtual – are essential to navigating the challenges of a globalized world.
Projects
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Journal Article in Preparation: The Search for Modern Micronesia – Genealogies of a Colonial Past
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Forthcoming Monograph “The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State, and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific” (Cambridge University Press 2025).
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Article in Preparation: “Post-Humanity Crisis after the explosion of Aogashima Island: Japan’s Tenmei Crises (1782–88) in the Context of a Global Volcanic Winter.”
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Synthetic Nitrogen and the Dependencies of Modern Growth: Global Japan in the Creation of Unsustainable Infrastructures, 1700 to present
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The Evolution of Kappa, or: Science and Environmental Change in the History of a Fictive Species in Japan
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Deep-Blue Visions in the Drafting of Japan’s Pacific Geographies
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Article In Preparation: “Japan, Hawai‘i, and the Construction of Late Nineteenth-Century Visions of Pacific Futures” (Working Title)
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“Land Reclamation and Malaria Outbreaks in the Yaeyama Islands under the Ryukyuan Kingdom” (Working Title)
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“Pictograms and Knot-Ropes: Administrative Records in the Borderlands of Early Modern Ryukyu.”