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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Book Project: The Search for Modern Micronesia – Genealogies of a Colonial Past
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Book Project: “The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State, and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific” (Under Contract, Cambridge University Press).
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Book Chapter: “Migrants of the Kuroshio Frontier” (Forthcomig in: Ian Miller, Nadin Hée and Stefan Hübner, Oceanic Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2024, forthcoming).
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Book Project: Synthetic Nitrogen and the Dependencies of Modern Growth: Global Japan in the Creation of Unsustainable Infrastructures, 1700 to present. (Working Title)
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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: “Post-Humanity Crisis on the Isle of Green: Disaster and Recovery After the 1785 explosion of Japan’s Aogashima Island.” (Working Title)
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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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Exploratory Project: “Land Reclamation and Malaria Outbreaks in the Yaeyama Islands under the Ryukyuan Kingdom” (Working Title)
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Exploratory Project: “Pictograms and Knot-Ropes: Administrative Records in the Borderlands of Early Modern Ryukyu.”