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Catherine L. Phipps

Catherine L. Phipps

Dunavant Associate Professor

Phone
901.678.2515
Email
cphipps1@memphis.edu
Fax
901.678.2720
Office
113 Mitchell
Office Hours
Call for Hours

Education

Ph.D., History, Duke University, 2006

Fields of interest

Global empires, modern Japan, transmarine East Asia, port cities, and historical geography

Courses taught

Modern Japan; Modern East Asia; A Tale of Two Empires: Connecting American and Japanese Imperialisms; Mapping Human Lives; World Civilizations II

Representative publications

  • Empires on the Waterfront: Japan's Ports and Power, 1858-1899 (Harvard University Asia Center, 2015)
  • "A Two-Timing Map?" in Cartographic Japan, Cary Karacas and Kären Wigen, eds., forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2016

Professional Affiliations

President, Southeast Conference, Association for Asian Studies (2016-17)