Announcing the Recipients of JPP’s Fall 2024 Project Funding

Japan Past & Present is delighted to announce the recipients of our Fall Project Funding competition, which was focused on premodern and early modern projects. We received compelling applications from researchers and educators around the world, including many that brought together scholars at different stages in their careers and from a variety of regions, embodying the global vision for the field to which JPP is committed. We congratulate the team that was selected:

An Introduction to Edo Period Population Registers: Transcription, Translation, and their Utility

江戸時代における宗門人別帳について： 翻刻、翻訳、および研究への有用性

• James Harry Morris ジェームズ・ハリー・モリス, Associate Professor, Waseda University (Team Coordinator)

• Christoph Hayashi-Reichenbaecher クリストフ・ハヤシ＝ライヒェンベヒャー, Lecturer, Aichi Prefectural University

• Damian Duduś ダミアン・ドゥドゥシ, Lecturer, Adam Mickiewicz University

• José Manuel Escalona Echániz ホセ・マヌエル・エスカロナ・エチャニス, Graduate Student, National Institute of Japanese Literature

• Samuel Frank Kuivenhoven サミュエル・フランク・クイベンホーベン, Graduate Student, University of Cambridge

• Miyuki Takahashi 髙橋美由紀, Professor, Risshō University

We are excited to work with this team over the next several months to develop their project and prepare it for publication on the JPP website, thus facilitating JPP’s mission to foster multilingual collaboration, communication, and scholarship, and disseminate its results to a global audience. Thank you to everyone who applied! Please be sure to subscribe to our news blog and follow us across social media (Twitter, Facebook, & Bluesky)  to receive information about our next Project Funding recruitment cycle.

Michael Emmerich
Director, Japan Past & Present
Director, The Yanai Initiative

Paula R. Curtis
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present
Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA