Team

Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan. She is Operations Leader of Japan Past & Present and an Academic Administrator with the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. Her research focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their relationships with elite institutions. Dr. Curtis also engages in a variety of online projects that compile digital resources and data related to East Asian Studies (available open-access here).

Hoyt Long is Professor of Japanese Literature and Digital Studies at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include the history of media and communication in modern Japan, cultural analytics, platform studies, the sociology of literature, and book history. Recent publications have addressed topics such as online writing platforms, the streaming television industry, and machine translation.

Mark Ravina is the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Chair in Japanese Studies at University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japanese politics, with a broader methodological interest in the transnational and international dimension of state-building. He is currently working on a series of digital humanities projects, including the development of historical mapping software and the digitizing of Japanese sugoroku games.