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Division Humanities Division

Department/ College/ Unit History Department

Title Instructor

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Cowell College

Faculty Type Adjunct Faculty

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
535

Additional Location(s) Cowell 242

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours In Person: HUM 1, Rm. 535, Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm / Zoom Office Hours Available Upon Request

Mail Stop Cowell College

Biography, Education and Training

PhD in East Asian History (2024)

Research Interests

I'm broadly interested in the intersections of the supernatural and media in modern Japan. I am interested in things like the relationship of feng shui, rumour, and radio projects in Okinawa, the occult history of the Japanese post office, and the relationship of Japanese native ethnography, yokai, and early Japanese encyclopediae.

I am also a Director of Research and Curricular Development for the Okinawa Memories Initiative. 

Research Keywords: East Asia; Modern Japanese history; Media studies; Monsters, Yokai, and the Supernatural; Folklore; Minzokugaku;

Awards, Honors and Grants

Courses Modern Japanese History: The State and the People
Monsters, Media, and the History of the Supernatural in Modern Japan
History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands (Next Offering: Winter 2025)
Re-Imagining Samurai and Society in Tokugawa Japan (Next Offering: Spring 2025)
Adapting Japanese Fantasy in a Global Context [Title Subject to Change] (Next Offering: Spring 2025)