Department of History

Traditional East Asia
Japan and the West
Modern East Asia

Dutch Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture, The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850. Leiden: CNWS, 2003.

“Traditional Japanese Footwear: purity and pollution.”  chapter in Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers  edited by Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello. Oxford and New York: Berg Press,  2006

“A Miracle of Industry-The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan,” in Building a Modern Nation: Science, Technology and Medicine in Japan, edited by Morris Low.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

“Exotic Bird Collecting in Early Modern Japan,” chapter in JAPANimals, edited by Greg Pflugfelder and Brett Walker. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies,  University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Japan Foundation Short Term Research Fellowship (2005)

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Short Term Research Fellowship (2005)

Research Fellowship -the Center for Non-Western Studies, University of Leiden (1998-2000)

Fulbright Grant for the Netherlands (1996-1997)