Public humanities projects

  • Global Queenship Podcast

    Conversation on Global Queenship: Meiji Empresses and Korean Queens, hosted on the Tudors Dynasty podcast, May 2023.

    Click here for the Spotify link. Also available on Apple.

  • Finding Gender in Japanese Literati Painting

    Micro essay on Noguchi Shohin and gender in the digital catalogue for Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists, held at the Denver Art Museum, 2023.

    Click here for the essay.

  • Industry and Institutions: Woodblock Prints and the Meiji Cultural Imagination

    Public talk for the Japanese Art Society of America on Meiji woodblock prints, November 2022.

    Click here to watch on YouTube.

  • Picturing Tokyo’s Modern Girl: Moga at the Meguro Gajoen

    Recorded panel discussion hosted by Wrightwood 659 in summer 2022 in conjunction with the exhibition Moga: Modern Women & Daughters in 1930s Japan.

    Click here for the video.

  • Modern Japanese Empresses in Photography

    Module, including English-language video lecture with Japanese subtitles and bi-lingual annotated bibliography, on the open source website, Behind the Camera: Gender, Power, and Politics in the History of Japanese Photography, hosted by the University of British Columbia.

    Click here for access.

  • The Princess and the Press: Mako’s Wedding and the History of Imperial Women

    Published January, 2022 in Critical Asian Studies Commentary.

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  • Ōta Chōu’s Vaccination: Medicine and Modern Girls in 1930s Japanese Painting

    Published May, 2021 on Nursing Clio.

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  • Kobayashi Kiyochika's 1895 Illustration of the Empress Visiting a Field Hospital (Hiroshima)

    Podcast from May 2021 on Empire Lines.

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  • The Japanese Imperial Family Invented

    Published June, 2019 on Nursing Clio.

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  • Raigо̄: The Welcoming Descent of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism

    Essay published in the exhibition catalogue for Heaven and Hell: Salvation and Retribution in Pure Land Buddhism, held at the San Antonio Museum of Art, 2017.

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  • Sosaku hanga: Twentieth Century Japanese Creative Prints

    Curated exhibition held at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2017 together with students in the spring 2017 class Japanese Print Culture.

    Click here for more information and online exhibition features