Team

Nadia Kanagawa is a historian of premodern Japan. She is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in Asian Languages & Cultures at UCLA. From 2018 to 2024, she was Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and History at Furman University in Greenville, SC. In her research she examines how classical Japanese rulers approached the incorporation, assimilation and configuration of immigrants and their descendants. She is particularly interested in comparative legal histories of East Asia, and in exploring how digital methods and tools can enrich our analyses of premodern sources.