I’m a professor at Northwestern University, where I specialize in the social history of early modern and modern Japan. I also teach and write about global history.
My latest book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, was published by Scribner (US) and Chatto (UK) in July 2020. You can also find my work in Slate, The American Historical Review, The Journal of Asian Studies, and the Journal of Japanese Studies. My cv is available at my faculty website.
I live in Evanston, IL with my husband, two sons, and an irrationally exuberant dog named Bonus. My hobbies are making lopsided pots, reading way too many novels, and becoming obsessed with obscure nineteenth-century people.
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