Graduate Alums
Ethan Barkalow
MA Alum
Ethan Barkalow began studying East Asia while an undergraduate student at Bowdoin College where he took courses in Japanese and Chinese history, studied Japanese language, and wrote an honors thesis on environmental history in northern Japan.
John D'Amico
Doctoral Alum
John received his PhD in the Department of History in 2024. He specializes in the social and economic history of Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). His dissertation project focused on the role of merchants and their money in the 18th and 19th century.
Miku Ebata
MA Alum
Miku Ebata is a would-be specialist in modern Japanese history, particularly the relationship focusing especially on intellectual discourse on empire and democracy. She was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan and earned a B.A.
Edgar Li
MA Alum
Edgar Li was born in Zhejiang, China. He is mainly interested in Modern Japanese history, especially the class of displaced samurai after the Meiji Restoration and their contribution to the rise of Pan-Asianism and militarism in Japan during the 1930s.
George Remisovksy
PhD Alum
George received his PhD from the History Department in 2025. His work focuses on the economic, social, and legal histories of modern China and Japan.
Aika Sato
MA Alum
Aika spent most of her formative years in the two cities she calls home, Shanghai and Tokyo. She grew up witnessing the past haunting the present in different parts of East Asia: ultranationalism, antagonism, and discrimination.
Sabrina Williams
MA Alum
Sabrina Williams was raised in Northern California and received her B.A. degree from Northwestern University in 2018, where she majored in Political Science.