Graduate Students
Laney Bahan
MA Student
Laney Bahan was born and raised in California, but moved her life to Tokyo, Japan for three years, and later lived in the United Kingdom for another three years.
Michael Burns
Doctoral student
Michael Burns received his B.A. in History and Japanese Language and Literature from the University of Kansas in 2019.
John D'Amico
Doctoral student
John is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History. He specializes in the social and economic history of Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). His dissertation project is about the role of merchants and their money in the 18th and 19th century.
Lucero Estrella
Doctoral student
Lucero graduated with a B.A. in Mexican American & Latina/o Studies and Asian Cultures and Languages with a concentration in Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.
Thomas Monaghan
Doctoral student
Tom Monaghan is a third year PhD student in history. His research examines sugar and island societies in Japan, the Ryukyu archipelago, and Taiwan across the early-modern to modern periods, drawing connections between Japan's sugar history and that of the Atlantic world.
Alexander Schweinsberg
Doctoral student
Alexander Schweinsberg is a doctoral candidate in history. He did his BA at the University of Toronto in 2008 and then lived in Wakayama for three years on the JET Programme.
Mindy Su
Doctoral student
I am a first-year PhD student in Japanese history. I am interested in the migration between colonies of the Japanese Empire and the history of travel passes in East Asia.
Holden Zimmerman
Doctoral student
Holden Zimmerman is a second-year Ph.D. student in International History with a regional specialization in Western Europe and Japan. Her research focuses on the relationship between humanitarianism and militarism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.