ZIOMEK

I received my PhD in modern Japanese history from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2011. My PhD advisor and continued mentor and friend is Sabine Frühstück. I also studied with and learned a great deal from Luke Roberts, Paul Spickard, Mary Hancock and anne-elise lewallen. My dissertation research was funded by Fulbright IIE, Japan Foundation, and the University of California Pacific Rim Research program. I conducted my research for my dissertation for a year and a half at the University of Tokyo (情報学環) under Professor Yoshimi Shun'ya... After receiving my PhD I had a two year postdoc as the Asian Studies fellow at Hamilton College in upstate New York. In 2013 I joined the Department of History at Adelphi University in New York. My research interests include Japanese empire and imperialism, indigenous people (specifically Ainu, Okinawans, Micronesians and Indigenous Taiwanese), visual culture, the Asia-Pacific War, and comparative empires and imperialisms. After..