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Historisches Seminar

Jonas Rüegg

Jonas Rüegg, Dr.

  • Senior Teaching and Research Assistant
  • Office KO2 F 168
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+41 (0)44 634 38 14

Main Research

– Global Environmental History
– Early Modern and Modern Japanese History
– Pacific History
– Knowledge, Science and Technology in Society
 

Curriculum Vitae

2016–2022   Harvard University: Ph.D. History and East Asian Languages.
2014-2016  

Harvard University: M.A. Regional Studies – East Asia.

2013

 

Embassy of Switzerland in Japan: academic traineeship, political section.

2008–2013

 

University of Zurich: B.A. Japanese Studies (major) and General History (minor).

First Monograph (work in progress)

“The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific”

Select Publications

“Migrants of the Kuroshio Frontier” in: Ian Miller, Nadin Hée and Stefan Hübner, Oceanic Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2022 (forthcoming).

The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific.” PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 2022.

Currents and Oceanic Geographies of Japan’s Unending Frontier,” The Journal of Pacific History 56 (3), 2021, pp. 1–24.

Review of: Felix Lüttge, Auf den Spuren des Wals. Geographien des Lebens im 19. Jahrhundert,“ in: H-Soz-Kult, Aug. 23, 2021.

小笠原と新しい植物の導入 [Introduction of New Plant Species via the Bonin Islands]” in: 洋学史研究事典[Historical Encyclopedia of Western Studies], Tokyo: Shibunkaku Shuppan, forthcoming in September 2021.

幕末・明治:19世紀ジュネーヴに於ける日本研究 [Bakumatsu, Meiji: Japanese Studies in Geneva in the 19th Century]” in: Ōkawa S. and Okamura T. (eds.) 国際都市ジュネーヴ:宗教、思想、政治、経済 [The International City of Geneva: Religion, Thought, Politics and Economy]. Kyoto: Shōwadō, 2018: pp. 62–70.

"Mapping the Forgotten Colony: The Ogasawara Islands and the Tokugawa Pivot to the Pacific” in: Cross-Currents 3/2017, pp. 108-157.

"Aimé Humbert: Wertvorstellungen eines Bourgeois und das Japan der Bakumatsu-Zeit" [Aimé Humbert, Value Concepts of a Bourgeois and Bakumatsu Japan], in: Asiatische Studien / Etudes Asiatiques 1/2015, pp. 47–71.

"Challenges of Japanese Studies in 19th century Europe", in: Kyôritsu Joshi Daigaku sôgô bunka kenkyû kiyô [Bulletin of the center for humanities, Kyôritsu Women's University], 1/2015, p. 153–176.

Select International Affiliations

2022   Kokugakuin University, Visiting Research Fellowship, 2022/Jun.–Aug.
2019–21  

The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute, sponsored by the Swiss National Research Fund (SNSF). 2019/Sep.–2021/Feb.

2019

 

Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Visiting Researcher. 2019/Jun.–Aug.

2018

 

The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute. 2018/May–Jul.

2017

 

Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) Research Fellowship. 2017/Jun.–Jul.

2016

 

The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute. 2016/Jun.–Aug.

2015

 

National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). 2015/Jun.–Aug.

2010–11

 

Doshisha University (Kyoto/Japan), exchange year. 2010/Apr.–2011/Mar.

Teaching at the UZH

– 2022 Fall: Proseminar 1: ‘Natural’ Disaster? Global Histories of Environment, Knowledge and Society in Moments of Crisis.Co-teaching with Philip Zimmermann.

– 2023 Spring: BA Seminar: Empire and Environment in the Making of the Modern Pacific. 

 

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