East Asia-Japan, 2016
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