Faculty and Staff
Sho Konishi
Assistant Professor of History
Research interests: Japanese intellectual history, transnational knowledge making and translation practice in modern Japan, politics and culture, epistemology, philosophy of history
Professor Konishi studies cultural, intellectual and transnational history involving Japan since 1700. He is writing an intellectual history of cooperatist anarchism and Japanese-Russian non-state transintellectual relations in modern Japan. His current and recent research includes the intellectual history of the emergence of international nongovernmental organizations in Japan, Russian-Japanese translation practice, religious conversion, interlingualism, transnational pilgrimage practices, the cultural legacy of the Russo-Japanese War, and the emergence of Japanese Marxism and feminism.