Department of History
Catherine L. Phipps

Dunavant Associate Professor
Phone 901.678.2515
Email: cphipps1@memphis.edu
Office: 113 Mitchell Hall
Office Hours: Email for hours
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:
Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
Editor,
Articles and Book Chapters:
"Mobility in an Age of Imperialism, Nation-Building, and Revolution: Kawata Masaz艒鈥檚 Late-Nineteenth-Century Pacific World,鈥 Journal of World History 34:1, March 2023, 77-100.
鈥淟egislating Global Mobility in Japan: Opening the Pacific, Treaty Ports, and Asian Exclusion,鈥 in Takahiro Yamamoto, ed., Documenting Mobility in the Japanese Empire and Beyond, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 29-67.
鈥淪overeignty at the Water鈥檚 Edge: Japan鈥檚 Opening as Coastal Encounter,鈥 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.
Recent Research Awards
Dunavant Faculty Professorship, University of 蜜桃导航, 2023-2025
