CJS Seminar by 2025 Library Travel Awardees

Abstract

Speakers information: 1) Thomas Monaghan received his PhD in History from Yale University in May 2025. His dissertation is entitled, ’The Satsuma Empire and its Sugar Colonies on the Edges of Early Modern Japan’. In 2025-26, he will be a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. 2) Lina Nie is a historian of premodern China, Japan, the Mongol Empire, and maritime East Asia. She is currently writing a book on diplomatic exchanges among China, Japan, Korea, and Mongols from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. Lina Nie received her master degree from Harvard University and PhD in History from the University of Southern California. She went to the University of Hong Kong and Kyoto University for her undergraduate study . Her work has appeared in the Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, Bulletin of Ming-Qing Studies, and Monumenta Nipponica, and most recent work has been accepted by the Journal of Asian Studies.