Publications
“History’s Rhythm: Climate, Calamity, and the Science of Cycles in Twentieth-Century Japan” [Draft under revision]
“Japan’s Colonial Environments,” in Handbook of Environmental History in Japan, ed. Fujihara Tatsushi (Tokyo: MHM Limited, 2022) [In press]
Selected Presentations
“Politics, Place, and Japanese-Taiwanese Cooperation in Engineering the Zengwen Dam, 1965-1973,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 19, 2022
"Water Power, Conquest, and the Electrification of Taiwan,” Joint Atlantic Seminar in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Harvard University, May 6, 2022
“Flooding, Watershed Management, and Indigenous Farming in Taiwan under Japanese Rule, 1911-1936,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 26, 2022
“History’s Rhythm: Taiwanese Timber and Japanese Climate Science in the Twentieth Century,” History of Science Society/Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, November 20, 2021
"Alders, Fallows, and the Limits of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Colonial Taiwan,” Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Kyoto University, September 7, 2021
“Colonial Conservation in the Japanese Empire,” University of Tokyo Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies, July 20, 2021
“Climate and Calamity: Scale and the Science of Cycles in Twentieth-Century Japan," Joint Atlantic Seminar in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, April 17, 2021
"Governing Mountains and Waters: Flood Control, Forests, and Aboriginal Taiwanese Under Japanese Colonialism,” Water, Waterways and Seas in Modern Japan: Perspectives of Japanese Environmental History Workshop, EFEO and ISEAS, Kyoto, May 30, 2020
“Hydraulic Taiwan: Engineering, Agriculture, and Japanese Empire,” Local Utopianism and Global Maritime Empires in 1930s Research Meeting, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University, October 29, 2019
“Writing the History of Japanese Transoceanic Migration and Disease Prevention,” Ocean, Island, Shore: Placing the Global Pacific in the Age of Climate Change Workshop, Harvard University Center for the Environment, May 8, 2019.
“Surviving the Tropics: Malaria, Medicine, and Japanese Colonization in Brazil,” Global Asias 5 Conference, Pennsylvania State University, April 5-6, 2019.
“Agriculture and Environmental Change Across the Japanese Diaspora,” Harvard University Asia Center, Thursday, November 29, 2018.
“Fluid Borders: Building a Transnational Dam in Japanese Taiwan, 1911-1930,” New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference, Yale University, April 14, 2018.