Education

Ph.D., Duke University

 

Fields of Interest

Modern Japan, Maritime East Asia, Port Cities, Global Empires, Historical Geography

 

Recent Courses

Modern Japan, Modern East Asia, Global Historiography, World History

 

Representative Publications and Media

Books:

Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858-1899, Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 

Editor, Meiji Japan in Global History, Routledge, 2022.

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and Revolution: Kawata Masazō’s Late-Nineteenth-Century Pacific World,” Journal of World History 34:1, March 2023, 77-100.

“Legislating Global Mobility in Japan: Opening the Pacific, Treaty Ports, and Asian Exclusion,” in Takahiro Yamamoto, ed., Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 29-67.

“Sovereignty at the Water’s Edge: Japan’s Opening as Coastal Encounter,” Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, eds., A View from the Sea: Global Maritime History in the Early Modern World, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.

Podcast:

The Meiji at 150 Podcast. Episode 103: Dr. Catherine Phipps

 

Recent Research Awards

Dunavant Faculty Professorship, University of Memphis, 2023-2025