Dr. Sho Konishi

Biography

Sho Konishi is an Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Antony's College. He specializes in cultural, intellectual, and transnational history, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His current research interests include historical epistemology, aesthetics, humanitarianism, the interplay of emotions and history, as well as anarchist perspectives on natural sciences such as geography and embryology. Konishi's work often explores themes surrounding transnational intellectual histories and non-imperial encounters, with a particular emphasis on language and the processes of human knowledge production. He has published extensively in the fields of anarchist modernity and global humanitarianism, with notable works including 'Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations Modern Japan' and 'Japan's Russia: Challenging East-West Paradigm'. Konishi actively supervises Master's and Doctoral students at Oxford, with a focus on modern Japanese history and related geographical specializations. His contributions aim to challenge and expand the conceptual boundaries of modern historiography in Japan.

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