Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Making History Matter: Kuroita Katsumi and the Construction of Imperial Japan. Harvard Asia Center, March 2017; e-book from Brill, May 2020.

“From Colonial Science to the Genome age: The Politics of Asian Giant Salamander Conservation.” Animal-Human Interactions in Anthropocene Asia, ed. Victor Teo. Routledge, March 2023.

“Diluvial Nation: Building Imperial Japan Through Floods.” Disaster Management and Prevention: An International Journal 30, no. 1 (2021): 22-34; EarlyCite October 2020.

「近代日本の国家形成と歴史学：黒板勝美を通じて」『立教大学日本学研究所年報』nos. 14/15 (2016.08): 15-25. “The Making of Modern Japan and the Historical Profession: A look through Kuroita Katsumi.” In Rikkyō University Japanese Studies Research Institute Annual Report. In Japanese.

Recent presentations (invited talks, conference papers, podcast episodes, etc.):

2025  “Scouting Pacific Islands: science, diplomacy, and the interconnectedness of knowledge production.” Kinghorn Fellowship Lecture. 23 October. (Geneva, NY)

2025   “From PTBS to PICRC: integrating Micronesia into international coral research.” International Commission of History of Oceanography at International Congress of History of Science and Technology. 29 June-5 July. (Dunedin, New Zealand)

2025   “Appraising classical animals: science, teleology, and the transwar search for a premodern menagerie.” Invited paper, International Conference on Animal Depictions in Classical and Modern East Asian Cultures, National Central Library. 15-16 May 2025. (Taipei, Taiwan)

2025  “Beyond the Wallace Line: environment, science, and technology in Southeast Asia.” Panel organizer, “Interconnected diversity: teaching Southeast Asia across time, disciplines, and methodologies.” ASIANetwork Annual Conference. 28-30 March 2025. (San Antonio, TX)

2024  “Scientists’ imperial aftermath: coral research in early decolonized Japan.” Panel organizer, “Changing places, realigning knowledge: twentieth century aquatic biology research in East Asia and beyond.” History of Science Society. November. (Mérida, Mexico)

2024   “The curious case of Ueno Masuzō: recalling interwar Japanese zoology as an imperial complex.” Invited talk, Academia Sinica Institute of Modern History. July. (Taipei, Taiwan) 

2024  “Dolphins use them too: coral pharmaceutics from TCM to bioprospecting to environmental protection.” International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines X. June. (Taipei, Taiwan)

2024  “Insular empire: extreme points in the making of zoogeography.” The Geography Society of China Located in Taipei. April. (Taipei, Taiwan) 

2024  “Empire as field and laboratory: Japanese zoology and the meaning of the imperial arena.” Invited talk, National Taiwan University. April. (Taipei, Taiwan)

2023  “Island Lives: Considering biological diversity in Japanese colonial Taiwan.” Academia Sinica Institute of Taiwan History. December. (Taipei, Taiwan)

2023  “The Great Barrier Reef of East Asia: corals, reefs, and their research in Japanese colonial Taiwan.” The More-than-Human Histories Conference, National Cheng Kung University. November. (Tainan, Taiwan)

2023  “Imagining the empire through compound eyes: Taiwan’s agriculture and Japanese colonial entomology.” European Association for Japanese Studies. August. (Ghent, Belgium)

2023  “Witnessing an ecological debacle: Sun Moon Lake hydroelectric plant and colonial environmental management.” East Asian Environmental History. KAIST. June/July. (Daejeon, ROK) 

2023  “Reconsidering space and time in colonial science: Taiwan and the zoo-mapping of the Japanese empire.” Fulbright Taiwan Talk 2023. June. (Taipei, Taiwan) 

2023  “Ilha Formosa: Taiwan, the beautiful island under colonial Japan.” Fulbright Hays Seminar Abroad Program for Taiwan. June. (Taipei, Taiwan)

2023   “Indigenous knowledge in the making of Japanese colonial Taiwan’s zoology.” The 13^th Conference on the History of Science in Taiwan National Tsing Hua University. March. (Hsinchu, Taiwan)

2023  “Hunting regulations in Taiwan under imperial Japan: indigenous peoples, animal conservation, empire-building.” Association for Asian Studies. February. (virtual)

2022   “How not to exploit the planet, or: Considering movements for greater sustainability and welfare (A case study of Imperial Japan).” National Cheng Kung University. November (Tainan, Taiwan)

2022   “Same islands, different masters: imagining conservation anew after Pearl Harbor.” European Society for Environmental History Conference. July. (Bristol, UK)

2022   “Globalizing coral reef research: Japanese scientists and interwar oceanic knowledge exchange.” World History Association Conference. June. (Bilbao, Spain)

2022   “What makes an animal Taiwanese?: Natural Monuments and Endemism in Colonial Taiwan.” Association for Asian Studies Conference. March. (Honolulu, HI)

2021   “Recipe for Ecological Disaster: Imperial Japan, Rural Rehabilitation, and Zoogeography.” East Asian Environmental History Conference. September. (Kyoto, Japan)

2021   “Making Animals Japanese: Natural Monument Designation in Imperial Japan.” Postponed from August 2020 due to COVID. Panel Organizer, “Debating Memorials and Monuments: Great Men, War Sites, and Animals in Imperial Japan and Beyond.” European Association for Japanese Studies. August. (Ghent, Belgium)

2021   “May the peripheries lead us to the center: interwar Japanese zoology in Micronesia.” International Congress of History of Science and Technology. July. (Prague, Czech Republic)

Select grants:
Fulbright Taiwan U.S. Senior Scholar; GTI Scholarship; ASIANetwork Student-Faculty Fellowship; Kinghorn Fellowship; Tanaka Memorial Fellowship; ASIANetwork Speaker Bureau grant (institutional); National Endowment for Humanities Institute; Luce Asian Environment Grant; Freeman Asia Grant