Sho Konishi, Ph.D. (Chicago), University Lecturer in Modern Japanese History and Faculty Fellow (elected 2007). Dr Konishi's main areas of interest are in cultural, intellectual and transnational history. He did most of his undergraduate education in Russia. Before coming to Oxford, he was an assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005-2007), where he taught the modern history of Japan and global and transnational history. Topics of his recent research on modern Japanese intellectual history have included the philosophy of history, anarchism, Tokugawa Dutch medical studies, Japanese-Russian transnational knowledge production, inter-lingualism and translation practice, the intersections of co-op farming practices and modern agrarian literature, the emergence of primatology, international NGOs, Marxism and feminism. Dr Konishi is the Senior Tutor at St Antony's and is available to meet students without appointment between 2pm and 4pm on Tuesdays in term time, in room 10 on the Bursary corridor. Students may make appointments at other times by emailing Dr Konishi. |
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