Christoffer R. Bovbjerg
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Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara
Legal History, Law and Society, Governance, Politics, Public Humanities, Primary Source Translation
English
Santa Barbara, CA , United States
I am a historian and public humanist specializing in medieval Japan. My research focuses on the laws and governance of the Kamakura shogunate. I am also an active contributor to international translation projects, aiming to make medieval Japanese texts--especially those related to the law--accessible to a wider audience.
I currently serve as the Associate Director at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I develop and direct the Center's public programs and community-engaged collaborations, including prison education and educator training programs and interpretation services.
Ph.D., History, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2018
M.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 2012
B.A., History and Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, 2008
“The Conservative Case for Warrior Law: Legal Change in Medieval Japan,” in Prefaces, Prologues, and Preliminaries: Studies on Framing Devices in Legal Traditions Across World History, edited by Laura Culbertson and Susan Longfield Karr (forthcoming: Routledge, 2026)