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Miriam Kingsberg Kadia

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

History of Modern Japan, Global History, History of Knowledge
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Miriam Kingsberg Kadia is working on a generational biography of the cohort of Japanese human scientists active from the 1930s through the late 1960s—the “transwar period.” This project explores how scholars, at their moment of greatest authority over notions of national identity, (re)framed knowledge of Others in the context of imperialism, war, occupation, and independence.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D.
2009
Brandeis University
M.A.
2003
Brandeis University
B.A.
2003

Honors

2015
Eugene V. Kayden Book Award
2015
University of Colorado Boulder Provost's Faculty Achievement Award
2014
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, ACLS
2010
Harvard Academy, Harvard University