RESEARCH INTERESTS

Japanese history; Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo period Japan (1568-1868); History of Japanese religions; Art and architecture of the Japanese archipelago; Hegemonic deification; Philosophy of history; Nationalism and nostalgia; Conceptions of time and the Anthropocene. 

DISSERTATION

The Birth and Death of the Gongen: Decentering and Recentering Tōshōgū and Tokugawa Authority, 1616-1867

AWARDS

2021-22 Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship