University of California, Berkeley, PhD in History, 2015
University of Tokyo, MA in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 2006
Moscow State University, Diploma/Degree in Philosophy, 2001
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley, PhD in History, 2015
University of Tokyo, MA in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, 2006
Moscow State University, Diploma/Degree in Philosophy, 2001
Modern Japan, Empire and Imperialism, Intellectual History, Japanese-Soviet Relations
My research and teaching interests center on imperial Japan, collaboration and resistance, and social/ist imaginaries.
My book, Revolution Goes East. Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism, examined the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 on the Japanese Left and Japan's imperial policy. My second project is a comparative study of Japanese and Soviet empires and their colonial policies on the Mongolian territories.
See also AHA Member Spotlight
“Meiji and October Revolutions.” In 150 Years Since the Meiji Revolution. Edited by Matthew Augustine (Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press, April 2020. In Japanese)
“The Buryat-Mongol National Movement and Japanese Interests in Siberia, 1917–1919.” In Beyond Versailles: The 1919 Moment and a New Order in East Asia. Edited by Evan Dawley and Tosh Minohara (Lexington Books, 2020)
"The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of Japanese anticommunism," Revolutionary Russia 31:2 (2018)
“New Revolutionary Agenda: the Interwar Japanese Left on the ‘Chinese Revolution,” Cross-Currents (September 2017)
“Der Fremde. Russlandbild und Russlandpolitik in Japan, 1715–2015 (Russian Studies in Japan, 1715–2015: an Overview),” Osteuropa (May–June 2015)
Review, “I. Kalinin: Japan and Russia,” in Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas (January 2017)
Japan’s Ministry of Education, the Japan Foundation, UC Berkeley, the Hoover Institute, The Tohoku University Research Fellowship, the German Excellence Initiative