Claire E. Cooper, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. East Asian Studies, Princeton University
  • M.A. East Asian Studies, Princeton University
  • M.A. Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University
  • B.A. Japanese Studies, Georgetown

Research & Academic Interests

  • Early Modern Japan (1600-1850)
  • Global Trade and Exchange
  • Indian Ocean History
  • Histories of Science and Medicine

Publications

  • “What was Dutch in early modern Japan” in Interdisciplinary Edo: Towards an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan, edited by Joshua Schlachet and William C. Hedberg (New York: Routledge, 2024), 34-49.
  • “European Institutions at the Intersection of Global Medicine and Local Practice” in The Cambridge History of Medicine, Volume 4: Eighteenth-Century Medicine, c. 1700–1830, edited by Suman Seth and Yi-Li Wu (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)