Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies
History
Princeton University
Nissan Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945," an ERC Advanced Grant project
Assistant and Associate Professor, Department of History, Princeton University
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)
“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).
—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