Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in History, Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in History, The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University

PhD, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Certificate
Graduate Teacher Certificate + Digital Media Teacher Certificate

MA, East Asian Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Concentration: Premodern Japan

BA, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, summa cum laude
Major: Japanese Studies, Minor: Art History (East Asia)

“The Materiality of Mokkan: Creating Sources for Reflection on Text in Ancient Japan.” In Teaching Japan: A Handbook. MHM Limited. [forthcoming]

“Towards a Digital Future in East Asian Studies: Reflections from 2023.” Journal of Asian Studies Forum, Digital Humanities and/in Asian Studies. [forthcoming]

“On Kami and Avatars: Social Media Literacy and Academics as Public Intellectuals.” In Introduction to Digital Humanities – Religion, Vol. 6: Across Asia: Studying Religions Digitally. Eds. Cornelis van Lit and James Harry Morris, 257-287. Degruyter, 2023.

「海外における日本中世史研究の動向―若手研究者による研究と雇用の展望」 (The State of the Field for Medieval Japanese History Overseas: Research by Early Career Scholars and the Job Market). In『海外の日本中世史研究：「日本史」・自国史・外国史の交差』 (Overseas Research on Medieval Japanese History: the Intersection of “Japanese History” in Japan and Abroad). Eds. Xiaolong Huang and Yasufumi Horikawa, 101-115. Bensei Shuppan, 2023.

“Taking the Fight for Japan’s History Online: The Ramseyer Controversy and Social Media.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 19, no. 22:3 (2021).

“An Entrepreneurial Aristocrat: Matsugi Hisanao and the Forging of Imperial Service in Late Medieval Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica 75:2 (2020): 241-279.

“北米におけるデジタル・ヒューマニティーズと日本研究の現状：発展、協働、そして課題 (The State of Digital Humanities and Japanese Studies in North America: Developments, Collaborations, and Challenges).” Current Awareness Portal no. 356. June 20, 2023.

“Recent Developments in Digital Japanese Studies.” International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter 92 (Summer).

“Bronze Bell.” Perspectives on History, The American Historical Association. Feb 24, 2022.

“Taking the Fight for Japan's History Online.” Critical Asian Studies. Oct 12, 2021.

“Surveying Premodern Historians of Japan: Past, Present, and Future Directions of the Field.” #AsiaNow. Jun 22, 2021.

“Ramseyer and the Right-Wing Ecosystem Suffocating Japan.” Tokyo Review. May 30, 2021.

《巻頭言》「デジタル・シフトとデジタル日本研究の未来」 (The 'Digital Shift' and the Future of Digital Japanese Studies), 人文情報学月報 / Digital Humanities Monthly 115-1 (2021).
[English version]

"Embracing the Rebirth of Japanese Studies." #AsiaNow. May 18, 2020.

"Japan’s Once and Future Female Emperors." Nursing Clio. Apr 30, 2019.

“Prologue.” Asiadémica 10 (2017): 7-9.

Akiko Walley. Tekagami & Kyōgire. Ars Orientalis 52 (2023).

Sachiko Kawai. Uncertain Powers: Sen’yōmon-in and Landownership by Royal Women in Early Medieval Japan. Monumenta Nipponica 77:1 (2022).

William Wayne Farris. A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea. H-net Reviews (Feb 2021).

“Bodies and Structures.” Reviews in Digital Humanities 1:10 (Oct 2020).

Itō Keisuke. “Why Were There No Severe Famines in Fourteenth-Century Japan? Social Change, Resilience, and Climatic Cooling.” Monumenta Nipponica 73:2 (2019): 187-212.

Takagi Kiyoko. “Emperor Kōken,” “Emperor Shōtoku,” “Emperor Meishō,” “Emperor Go-Sakuramachi.” In Hachinin no jotei (The Eight Female Emperors of Japan: A Brief Introduction to their Lives and Legacies). Tokyo: Fuzambō International, 2005. Publication in English by Fuzambō International.

Association for Asian Studies – National Endowment for the Humanities “Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies”; Digital Humanities Grant

Medieval Academy of America Travel Bursary for Meritorious Graduate Paper

HistoryLab Grant, HIST 393: Looking for Asian Americans at UM and in Michigan, University of Michigan

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Grant, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan

Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarship, Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Scholar Sprints Digital Partnership Program, University of Michigan Library

Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Japan Studies Grant
[The University of Michigan Komonjo Workshop]

Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Graduate Research Fellow, University of Michigan

Sidney Fine Teaching Partnership Award, University of Michigan

Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship

Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship

Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship [declined]

Center for Japanese Studies Summer Grant, University of Michigan

Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Grant, University of Michigan

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (year): Ohio State University [declined]

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (year): Ohio State University

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (summer): Ohio State University

University Fellowship: Ohio State University

Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2023: JPN 191C - Current Trends and Scholarship in Medieval Japanese History

Lecturer, History Department, University of California, Los Angeles
Spring 2022: HIST 171 - The Written Word in Japan: Prehistory to 1600

Lecturer, East Asian Studies Department, Yale University
Spring 2020: EAS 910 - Economic, Environmental, and Digital Perspectives on Premodern Japan
[independent study, MA level]

Lecturer, History Department & East Asian Studies Department, Yale University
Fall 2019: HIST 307/EAS 404 - The Written Word in Japan: Prehistory to 1600

Teaching Assistant & Digital Consultant, History Department, University of Michigan
Winter 2019: HIST 393 - Looking for Asian Americans at UM and in Michigan: Capturing 150 years of Lived Experiences and Raw Voices

Instructor of Record, History Department, University of Michigan
Fall 2017: HIST 195 - Swords, Axes, and Spades: Writing Social Diversity into Medieval Japan

Graduate Student Instructor, History Department, University of Michigan
Winter 2017: HIST 205 – Modern East Asia
Winter 2013: HIST 205 – Modern East Asia
Fall 2013: HIST 210 – Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000
Fall 2012: HIST 204 – East Asia: Early Transformations

Workshop Leader (co-taught with Paul Vierthaler, William & Mary), "East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities,"
Dream Lab: A Digital Humanities Training Institute, University of Pennsylvania
Jun 5-9, 2023
Jun 13-26, 2022
Jun 14-17, 2021
Dream Lab Plus (Faculty Edition)
Jan 14-Feb 25, 2023

Workshop Leader (co-taught with Paul Vierthaler, William & Mary), "Digital Humanities Fundamentals & East Asian Studies,"
(Faculty & Administrator Workshop Series), BINUS University

Workshop Leader, "Japanese Language Text Mining,”
Digital Humanities Methods for Japanese Studies, University of Chicago
Jun 19-23, 2022 (Session 3)
Jul 22 & 30, 2021 (Session 1, Session 2)

Project Leader, East Asia-related Job Market Data Data and Visualizations
2022-2023 cycle (August 7, 2023)
2021-2022 cycle (July 31, 2022)
2020-2021 cycle (July 5, 2021)
2019-2020 cycle (May 1, 2020)

Logistics Manager, Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) Online Community
[inclusive community leadership and sustainable digital resource development]

Project Leader, Scholar Sprints, "Mapping Toll Barriers in Medieval Japan,"
Digital Partnership Program, University of Michigan Library

Workshop Leader, "Introduction to Network Analysis,"
Digital Humanities and East Asian Religions Workshop, McMaster University

Creator & Editor, Digital Resources and Projects on East Asia

Collaborator, Digital Humanities Japan Initiative
Moderator, Digital Humanities Japan Mailing List & Resources Wiki

Creator & Editor, “Carving Community: The Landis-Hiroi Collection”

Creator & Editor, “What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies?”

Interview, Matthew Hayes, "Digital Literacies in and Beyond the Classroom: Some Reflections on DH in Teaching with Dr. Paula R. Curtis," The Digital Orientalist (podcast on current research in Japan Studies)

Interview, Oliver Moxham, "Historians & Online Harassment," Beyond Japan (podcast on current research in Japan Studies)

Interview, Oliver Moxham, "Digitising Japanese Studies," Beyond Japan (podcast on current research in Japan Studies)

Interview, Tristan R. Grunow, "The ‘Rebirth’ of Japanese Studies on the Record with Paula R. Curtis (Yale)," Japan on the Record (podcast on current events related to Japan Studies)

Online Publication, "Digital Humanities Japan: Building Community and Sharing Resources," The Digital Orientalist

Public Engagement Project & Student Collaboration, Tweeting Historians Twitter Project
Personal Tweet Threads - Premodern Japanese History
Student Tweet Threads – Japan’s Female Emperors

Interview, Reina Gattuso, "The Return of Japan’s Female Sake Brewers,” Atlas Obscura

Interview, Daniel Morales, How to Japanese (podcast on careers in Japanese Studies)

Interview, Linda Lombardi, "Japanese spinning tops tell stories, aim for playfulness,”
Re: "Carving Community: The Landis-Hiroi Collection"

"Digital Humanities for Japanese Culture: Resources and Methods,"
Participant, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria

"Extracting Cultural Networks from Thematic Research Collections,"
Participant, Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria

"Japanese Language Text Mining: Digital Methods for Japanese Studies,"
Participant, Digital Humanities Workshop, Emory University

“An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Question,”
BINUS University

“Digital Humanities and Japanese Studies: Getting Started and Familiar,”
University of Florida

“An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Questions,”
University of Tsukuba

“Digital Japanese Studies: Current Trends and Professional Dilemmas,”
University of Pittsburgh

Keynote Speaker, “Digital Humanities in Japanese Studies: State of the Field,”
The Digital Orientalist Virtual Workshop and Conference

“To DH or not to DH? Digital Humanities and You,”
Midwestern Professionalization Seminar in East Asian Studies, Ohio State University

“Digital Publishing and the History Classroom: An Introduction & Example Using Scalar,” "The Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies, Redux," Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Chicago

“Speaking with the Dead: Digital Oral History for the Premodern Classroom,”
Presenter, Digital Pedagogies Lightning Talks and Workshop, Institute for Humanities, University of Michigan

“On Forgery,” “The Impact of the Digital on Japanese Studies,” Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Chicago

“Quantitative & Qualitative Reflections on Recent Hiring Trends in Japanese Studies,”
European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists

“Public-facing Scholarship in an Age of Social Media Extremism: Views from Japan & Beyond,”
University of California, Los Angeles

“Buddhas, Bells, And The Legacies Of Japan’s Medieval Metal Casters,”
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Organizer & Presenter, “The Academic Online: Making Asian Studies Digitally Present,”
The Association for Asian Studies

Discussant, Charred Wood, Fragmented Writing, and Buddhist Bullets: Reuse and Recycling in Japanese Visual and Material Culture
College Art Association

“Law or Order?: Forgery and Falsity in Medieval Japanese Documents,”Frauds, Forgeries, and Newfound Networks
European Association for Japanese Studies

Organizer & Presenter,“The ‘Rebirth’ of Japanese Studies,”
The Association for Asian Studies
[cancelled due to COVID-19, converted to virtual roundtable format]

“Reading Between the Texts: Forgery, History, and Authority in Late Medieval Japan,”
The Council on East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Associates Lecture Series, Yale University

“Forgery and its Narratives in Medieval Japan,”Forgery and Memory Symposium
University of Exeter

“Forging Legal Truths: Courtiers, Casters, and the Creation of Narrative Histories in Late Medieval Japan,”Fictions, Forgeries, and Deceit in the Global Middle Ages
The Medieval Academy of America

“Inauthentic Truths: Forgery, Authority, and Economy in Medieval Japan [a selection on yuishogaki 由緒書],” Research Talks in Honor of Imperial Princess Akiko of Mikasa’s Visit
University of Michigan

Organizer, EIHS Workshop Panel: Expectant Bodies: Gender, Textuality, Sovereignty
Complement to “EIHS Lecture: The Myth of Masculine Impunity: Male Adultery and Repentance in the Middle Ages,” Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

Organizer, EIHS Workshop Panel: Public/Private Selves: (In)visibilities, Identities, and Communities
Complement to “EIHS Lecture: Private Parts and Public Concerns: Erecting the Modern Japanese Penis,” Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Columbia University
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

“The Agreed Upon Counterfeit: Forgery Culture and Documentary Authority in Medieval Japanese Society,” The Premodern Colloquium
Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, University of Michigan

Organizer & Presenter, "When Past is Present: Courtiers, Casters, and Forgery in Late Medieval Japan," Bridging Time & Space: Navigating Social Networks in Premodern East Asia
The Association for Asian Studies

“Metal Casters, the Matsugi Family, and Late Medieval Networks: Shihai 支配 and Issues of Translation and Interpretation in Historical Scholarship,” Thinking Through Translation: Research in Progress by Japan Foundation Fellows 2015-16
Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

“中世後期における真継家の鋳物師「支配」：言葉の翻訳・解釈問題を中心に” (“The Matsugi Family’s ‘Control’ of Metal Casters in the Late Medieval Period: Issues in Translation and Interpretation”)
The Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo

Organizer & Presenter, “Composing Medieval Social Spaces: Artisans, Aristocrats, and Textual Representation in the Shokunin uta-awase emaki,” Unbounded Locales: Real and Imagined Geographies of Premodern Japan
Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

“Rights, Rites, and Writing: Reconceptualizing “Power” for Artisans, Aristocrats, and Warlords in Late Medieval Japan,” Forum on Research in Medieval Studies Noon Lecture Series
University of Michigan

“The Country and the City, 40 Years on: Spatial Constructs in the shokunin uta-awase,” The Country and the City, 40 Years on
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan

“Forging Forgeries: Metal Casters and Power in Medieval Japan,” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Department Presentations in Honor of Tom Green: “Thoughts on the Future of the Past”
University of Michigan

“アイデンティティー形成と意識：中世日本における職人の役割” (Identity Formation and Consciousness: The Role of Artisans in Medieval Japan)
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan

Academics Online [series], The Association for Asian Studies Digital Dialogues
May 2, 2022 “Part 3: Activists and Advocacy Beyond Academia”
Mar 10, 2022 “Part 2: Best Practices for Social Media Safety” (Speaker)
Feb 16, 2022 “Part 1: Digital Harassment Across Asias” (Chair, Speaker)

De-centering the Global Middle Ages Symposium
University of Michigan

The University of Michigan Medieval Komonjo Workshop
University of Michigan

Graduate Student Research and Methods Colloquium in Medieval Japanese History
University of Tokyo

“Contemplating Career Paths & Life After the East Asian Studies MA,” The Ohio State University

“East Asian Studies and Digital Humanities: State of the Field,” National University of Singapore

“Visualizing Digital Futures: Public-facing Scholarship & Online Harassment,” Yanai Initiative Symposium: Future Visualizations: At the Intersection of Media and Data, Waseda University

“Ready-to-Use Teaching Tools in and Beyond Japan Studies,” Japan Foundation Toronto

“The Digital Brakes: Demand & Support for DH in East Asian Studies,” The Digital Turn in Early Modern Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

“The Fourteenth Century and Medieval Transitions,” Furman University

“Between Medieval & Digital: Tackling Premodern Japanese Documents,” Professor Talks
Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, University of California, Los Angeles

“Digital Humanities & Japanese Studies in North America,” DH 2022 Tokyo Commemorative Lecture Series, Digital Humanities 2022 (Tokyo)

“Pipelines & Patterns: Japanese Studies by the Numbers,” Placing Japan In A Different Setting: New Lenses & New Approaches to Japan Studies
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) sponsored panel, The Association for Asian Studies

“Online Presence and Professionalization in Japanese Studies,”
Nippon Foundation Fellows Lecture, Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies

“Ask Us Anything: Professionalization, Research, Job Prep, & Beyond,”
Historians at Work, Reiterations of the Past, Kyushu University

“Thinking Through Difficult Documents: Methods & Technology,”
Historians at Work, Reiterations of the Past, Kyushu University

“Makers on the Margins? Artisans and Status in Premodern Japan,”
Asia Now Lecture Series, University of Pittsburgh

Plenary Speaker, “(Dis)Connections in Digital Japanese Studies,” Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

“Of Text and Bronze: Courtiers, Casters, and Social Status in Medieval Japan,” U Tokyo Early-Career Scholar Forum, University of Tokyo

“Perspectives on the Future of Japanese Studies,” CULCON: United States-Japan Conference on Cultural & Education Interchange

“Modern or Medieval? The Invention of Japan’s Middle Ages,” Lakeforest College

“Rewritten & Retweeted: Japanese History in the Age of Social Media,” Furman University

“Literature, Art, History & the People Between: shokunin uta awase 職人歌合絵巻,” Washington College

“Digital Presence and Methods in East Asian Studies,” University of British Columbia

“Academic Networks and Digital Engagement at a Distance,” Research at a Distance: Japan Studies in an age of Covid-19, Workshop for Australia-based Researchers

“Entrepreneurial Aristocrats and Courtly Casters: Social Status through Artisanal Labor in Medieval Japan,” Japan Research Centre Seminar Programme, SOAS University of London

Workshop Leader, "日本史史料英訳ワークショップ―金沢文庫文書" (Japanese Historical Documents English Translation Workshop: Documents from Kanazawa Bunko), Historians' Workshop
University of Tokyo

“Medieval Lives and Afterlives: The Kawachi Casters in Objects and Legend,” Reiterations of the Past: Negotiations through Practice Series, Kyushu University

“Medieval Texts and Modern Podcasts: Lessons in Digital Media Pedagogy,” Japan Forum, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

Workshop Leader, “日本史史料英訳ワークショップ―御成敗式目” (Japanese Historical Documents English Translation Workshop: Documents from Goseibai shikimoku), Historians' Workshop, University of Tokyo

“Seen and Unseen: Commoner History and Visual Materials in Medieval Japan,” Rare and Distinctive Collections Hour Panel: “From Object to Subject: Elevating Histories of People of Color through Manuscript and Print Culture,” Cornell University

Workshop Leader, “日本史史料英訳ワークショップ―醍醐寺文書” (Japanese Historical Documents English Translation Workshop: Daigoji Temple Documents), Historians' Workshop, University of Tokyo

“Making the Warrior: Samurai Codes and Japan's Modern Medieval,” Colgate University

“Age of the Warrior? Rethinking Medieval Japan,” CORE167C – Japan, Colgate University

“Japanese Crests,” Letterpress Lab with Japanese Crests, Ann Arbor Japan Week, Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, MI
Jun 19, 2019
Jun 20, 2018

“Artisans in the Medieval Japanese Imaginary (?),” HISTART 646 – Medieval Makers and Theories of Making, University of Michigan

“Byōbu (Folding Screens) in Premodern Japan,” HISTART 393 – Art and Architecture of Colonial Latin America: Conquest to Independence, University of Michigan

“Cap, Sword, and Kettle: Cross-Status Network Formation and Forgery Production in Late Medieval Japan,” East Asian Studies MA Graduate Forum, Ohio State University

“U-M Graduate Studies on Digital History,” Digital History in a Digital Age? Kemp Family Symposium/Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Forum, University of Michigan

Referee/Reviewer,
Japanese Studies (peer-reviewed journal)
Medieval Worlds (peer-reviewed journal)
Modern Languages Open (peer-reviewed journal)

Evaluator,
The Toshizo Watanabe Study Abroad Scholarship Program
U.S.-Japan Council

Workshop Leader, “Looking Ahead: Academic Job Market 101,”
Nov 7, 2023 - The Ohio State University
Sept 5, 2023 - Pennsylvania State University
Dec 9, 2021 - University of California, Los Angeles
Aug 18, 2021 - Women in Ancient Studies Forum, Yale University
Sept 16, 2020 - Women in Ancient Studies Forum, Yale University

Faculty Advisor, Digital Resources Committee
The North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)

Evaluator,
Fulbright Fellowship Interview Committee
University of Michigan

Organizer, Council on East Asian Studies Work in Progress Workshop
Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University

Steering Committee Co-Coordinator
Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) Online Community

"Online Pasts and Presence: Digital Media as Professional Development,"
HIST 807: Graduate School and Beyond I, Department of History
University of Michigan

“#twitterstorians: Doing History on Twitter,”
Panelist, University of Michigan History Club, University of Michigan

“Panel Discussion with Yale Postdocs on Finishing the PhD and the Job Market,”
Women in Ancient Studies Forum, Yale University

Evaluator, Digital Technology Expo submissions
The Association for Asian Studies, 2020

“Resume/CV Writing for Japanese Studies,”
Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Michigan

“The Future After a Japanese Studies MA Degree,”
Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium, University of Michigan

“Graduate Student Instructor Mentoring on Time Management,”
History Department, University of Michigan

Fulbright Fellowship Interview Committee, University of Michigan

Founder & Graduate Student Coordinator, Japanese Studies Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Michigan

Graduate Student Coordinator, Forum on Research in Medieval Studies Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop, University of Michigan

Organizer & Presenter, “Leveling up your Japanese: Attending the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies,”
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University

The University of Michigan Medieval Komonjo Workshop (1 month)
Intensive Medieval Japanese Document Training, University of Michigan

Japan Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
The Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo

Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow
The Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo

Summer Kambun Workshop: Medieval Japanese Document Training (1 month)
University of Southern California

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan
Advanced Language Training, Summer & 10-month Intensive Program

Japanese: advanced (speaking, reading, writing, listening)
Classical Japanese: intermediate/advanced (reading)
Kanbun/Komonjo: intermediate/advanced (reading)

The American Historical Association
The Association for Asian Studies
The Medieval Academy of America
University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies Affiliate
Digital Humanities Japan
The North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
The Phi Beta Kappa Society: Iota Chapter
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi: Ohio State University Chapter 155