Seiji Shirane is a historian of Japan at The City College of New York (CUNY).

He is the author of Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan’s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022), available open access: http://bit.ly/3LWagWb.

His research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Email: sshirane(at)ccny.cuny.edu

Academic Experience

Associate Professor of History, CCNY (2023–Present); Assistant Professor of History, CCNY (2014–2023)

Ph.D. History, Princeton University (2008-2014); B.A. History, Yale University (2000-2004)

Book Talks:

Dec 14 (7pm ET)

Book Launch with Discussant Andrew Gordon (hosted by Modern Japan History Association)

Jan 13 (3pm ET)

University of Toronto, Global Taiwan Studies Initiative (hosted by Tong Lam)

Jan 19 (330pm PT)

University of Washington, Taiwan Studies Center (hosted by James Lin)

Jan 24 (430pm PT)

Stanford University, Center for East Asian Studies (hosted by Jun Uchida)

Jan 25 (4pm PT)

UC Berkeley, History Department (hosted by Hidetaka Hirota and Wen-hsin Yeh)

Feb 1 (430pm ET)

Columbia University, Weatherhead Center (hosted by Paul Kreitman)

Feb 9 (1700 UK)

University of Oxford, Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Feb 15 (430pm ET)

Princeton University, East Asian Studies Program (hosted by Sheldon Garon)

Feb 24

George Washington University, Asian Studies (hosted by Gregg Brazinsky)

Mar 14 (1330 UK)

Manchester University, China Institute

Mar 20 (12pm ET)

Harvard University, Weatherhead Center (moderated by Karen Thornber)

Aug 3 (11am-1pm CST)

Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica (中央研究院台史所)

Oct 19

Ohio State University (hosted by Ying Zhang)

Oct 27

University of Chicago (hosted by Yuting Dong)

April 19

University of Virginia (host and co-speaker, Joseph Seeley)