Naoko Shimazu Explained

Naoko Shimazu is a professor in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.^[1] She is a Fernand Braudel fellow at the European University Institute. Her research interests are the "cultural history of international diplomacy, social and cultural history of modern societies at war, and new approaches to the study of empire".^[2] Shimazu is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[3]

Education

Shimazu has the following degrees:^[3]

• 1985 B.A.(Honours) in political studies, University of Manitoba
• 1987 M.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford
• 1995 D.Phil. in international relations, University of Oxford^[4]

Selected publications

• Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919. Routledge, London, 1998.
• Nationalisms in Japan. Routledge, London, 2006. (editor)
• Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory, and the Russo-Japanese War. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009.
• Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia. Routledge, London, 2013. (Co-editor with Paul Morris and Edward Vickers)

External links

• Naoko Shimazu on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The Guardian.
• Full text of doctoral thesis, "The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference: Japanese motivations and anglo-american responses" via the Oxford Research Archive

Notes and References

1. http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/full-time-academic-staff/naokoshimazu Naoko Shimazu.
2. http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/HistoryAndCivilization/People/Fellows/Profiles/Shimazu.aspx Naoko Shimazu Fernand Braudel Fellow.
3. Web site: Archived copy . 1 June 2015 . 19 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150519091958/http://www.eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/HEC/Fellows/ShimazuCV.pdf . dead .
4. Naoko. Shimazu. 1995. The racial equality proposal at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Oxford Research Archive. en. University of Oxford.