Current position(s)

Nissan Professor, Department of History, Princeton University

Current project(s)

The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945," an ERC Advanced Grant project

Former position(s)

Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of History, Princeton University

Monographs (and dissertation)

Beyond Our Means: Why American Spends While the World Saves (2012)
Molding Japanese Minds: The State in Everyday Life (1997)
The State and Labor in Modern Japan (1987)

Articles

“Operation STARVATION, 1945: A Transnational History of Blockades and the Defeat of Japan.” The International History Review 46 (May 2024).7.
“On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the United States Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in the Second World War,” Past & Present, no. 247 (May 2020).
“Transnational History and Japan’s ‘Comparative Advantage,’” Journal of Japanese Studies 43, no. 1 (Winter 2017).

Edited volumes

—and Patricia Maclachlan, eds., The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (2006).

Global/transnational history (war and society, saving/consumption)
History of the world wars in Europe and East Asia
Modern Japanese history