Members

Satoshi Mizutani (Doshisha University) [Director]
  • Position: Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
  • Areas of research: Trans-imperial histories of colonialism and anti-colonialism with a focus on the British and Japanese empire
Nadin Heé (Universität Leipzig) [Vice Director]
  • Position: Professor, East Asian Institute, Universität Leipzig
  • Profile and works: Link 1 (Universität Leipzig), Link 2 (Academia.edu)
  • Areas of research: Global History, Modern History of East Asia, History of Knowledge, Empire Studies, History of Resources, Environmental History, Maritime History
Daniel Hedinger (Universität Leipzig) [Vice Director]
  • Position: Research Associate, Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), Universität Leipzig
  • Profile and works: Link 1 (Leipzig), Link 2 (FRIAS), Link 3 (Academia.edu)
  • Areas of research: Transnational history focusing on modern Japanese history as well as European history
Tomoki Yamada (University of Birmingham) [Coordinator]
  • Position: PhD student, College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
  • Area of research: Trans-imperial history, the League of Nations mandates system, trans-colonial history of the British empire, colonial education
  • Email: tomoki.yamada.0201[at sign]gmail.com
    • He is in charge of the administrative work, the management of this website and the editing of the CTH Newsletter.
Tomohito Baji (University of Tokyo)
  • Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
  • Areas of research: Theories of empire and international relations in early twentieth-century Britain, the United States and Japan
Makoto Yoshida (Nanzan University)
  • Position: Professor, Faculty of Global Liberal Studies, Nanzan University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Akiyoshi Nishiyama (Kyoritsu Women’s University)
  • Position: Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women’s University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Takeshi Komagome (Kyoto University)
  • Position: Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Position: Professor, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania
  • Profile and works: English
Yoshihiro Yakushige (Doshisha University)
  • Position: Researcher, Institute for the Study of Humanities and Social Sciences, Doshisha University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Sakiko Nakao (Chuo University)
  • Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Maria Framke (Erfurt University)
  • Position: Research Fellow, History Department, Erfurt University
  • Profile and works: English / German
Aaron Peters (Ambrose University)
  • Position: Lecturer, History/Humanities at Ambrose University
Vicky Shen (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Position: PhD Student, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
  • Profile: English
Seiko Mimaki (Doshisha University)
  • Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Taro Tsurumi (University of Tokyo)
  • Position: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Arts, University of Tokyo
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Asako Masubuchi (Doshisha University)
  • Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
  • Research interests: U.S. military occupation of Okinawa, oral history, colonial medicine, women’s history critical theory, militarism, transpacific studies, Cold War studies, Okinawan modern history
Robert Kramm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  • Position: Freigeist-Fellow & Principal Investigator, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Profile and works: English
  • Research interests: modern Japan, history of everyday life, colonialism and postcolonialism, and history of anarchism, communes and the body
Clara Torrão Busin (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
  • Position: PhD student, Institut des mondes africains, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
  • Profile and works: French
  • Research interests: political and social history, migration, mobility, Mozambique, Tanzania
Marie Sebillotte (École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
  • Position: contract PhD student, Institut des mondes africains, École des hautes études en sciences sociales; half-tenure track at the Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble
  • Profile and works: French
  • Research interests: slavery, abolitionism, Congo, Angola
Eloy Romero Blanco (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Position: PhD Student, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
  • Profile: English
Jason Butters (Columbia University)
  • Position: PhD Student, Department of History, Columbia University
  • Profile: English
Motoki Tomoyose (Doshisha University)
  • Position: PhD student, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University
Tomoe Morita (Doshisha University)
  • Position: PhD student, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University
  • Profile and works: English / Japanese
Satomi Mizoguchi (Doshisha University)
  • Position: PhD student, Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University