Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies
About
Thomas Monaghan received his PhD in History from Yale University. His dissertation, 'The Satsuma Empire and its Sugar Colonies on the Edges of Early Modern Japan’, examines how Satsuma domain captured the Amami Islands from Ryukyu and transformed them into dependencies supplying sugar for Japan’s domestic market. His research interests include the history of technology and migration, maritime networks, and border islands in Japan’s early modern to modern transition. His article, 'The Diffusion of Sugar-making Knowledge in the East China Sea: Japan, Amami, and Ryukyu, 1609-1868’, appears in a forthcoming special issue of Itinerario. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication and developing a project on the transregional interests of Satsuma domain and the early modern antecedents of the Japanese empire.
