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The Oxford Japanese History Workshop is a transnational group of postgraduate students, early-career scholars, and senior academics that organises conferences, events, and closed termly workshops, with a particular focus on transnational non-state history. Research presented under its auspices have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and have developed into edited volumes and monographs. More >

Natalia Doan, Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

Federica Costantino, "'The First Step towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance," in Modern Asian Studies (2025)

Warren Stanislaus on 'The 'Endz' of Black British History' (blog post for Royal Historical Society)

Dr Chinami Oka publishes 「西洋近代を越えて：近代日本における共生的モダニティの思想と行動の誕生」

髙梨学術奨励基金年報 pp.393–398, 2022

Chinami Oka awarded Tanaka Junior Research Fellowship in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Manimporok Dotulong awarded Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities, Brown University

Eiko Honda awarded Landhaus Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center (Munich)

Mateja Kovacic awarded three-year Early Career Scheme (Hong Kong Research Grants Council) for project on Transnational Anarchist Digital Networks

E-Flux: Sho Konishi contributes to Award-Winning Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Critical Asian Studies: Warren Stanislaus on The Great Reset: Afro-Japanese Pasts, Futures & Digital Scholarship

Eiko Honda gives lecture at Sainsbury Institute

Alice Baldock organizes Torch Symposium: Breaking Free: On the Limitations of the Dancing Body

Chui-Joe Tham co-organizes Graduate and ECR Symposium: Writing the Supernatural into History in Pre-Modern East Asia

Yu Sakai, Chinami Oka, and Eiko Honda present papers at EAJS annual conference

Alice Baldock

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow

Wadham College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Lewis Bremner

Lecturer, Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Margaret Bryan

DPhil Candidate in History

St Cross College

Xiangming Chen

DPhil Candidate in History of Art, Lincoln College

Shang Cheng

DPhil Candidate in History

Chiara Comastri

JSPS Research Fellow

Keio University

Federica Costantino

DPhil Candidate in History

The Queen's College

Natalia Doan

Assistant Professor

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zhou Fang

DPhil Candidate in History

Keble College

Eiko Honda

Assistant Professor in Japan Studies

Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society

Tyuki Imamura

DPhil Candidate in Fine Art

St John's College

Pia Jolliffe

Fellow at Blackfriars Hall; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Kaoruko Kawashima

DPhil Candidate in History

Mansfield College

Sho Konishi

Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies; Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History

Mateja Kovacic

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Yonsei University, Underwood International College

Joel Littler

JF-GJS Fellow

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS)

NYU Shanghai

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate in History

St. Catherine's College

Arron O'Connor

MPhil Candidate in Japanese Studies

Chinami Oka

Assistant Professor

Nagoya University

Olga Khomenko

British Academy Fellow in Japanese History

Rue O’Reilly

DPhil Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Wolfson College

Alok Ranpise

DPhil Candidate in History

St Antony's College

Yu Sakai

Assistant Professor in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge

Eiko Soga

Junior Research Fellow

St Anne's College

Warren Stanislaus

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society

NYU Shanghai

Chui Joe Tham

Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Ming Studies

University of British Columbia

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)

Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Cambria Press, 2021)

The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2024)

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945 (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024)

Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press, 2024)

Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)