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Academic Posts
ACADEMIC POSTS
8/2024–Present. Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
10/2023–6/2024. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
10/2019–9/2023. Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Wadham College and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, England.
EDUCATION
DPhil in Asian Studies, University of Oxford.
MSc in Modern Japanese Studies, with Distinction on dissertation, University of Oxford.
BA in English and a BA in Japanese with Departmental Honors, Vassar College.
PEER-REVIEWED BOOKS AND ARTICLES
Doan, N. Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026.
Doan, N. “The Iwakura Mission: Knowledge, Networks, and National Identity.” Journal of American-East Asian Relations 31, no.3 (2024): 225–235.
Doan, N. and Sho Konishi, eds. Black Transnationalism and Japan. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024.
Doan, N. and Sho Konishi. “Black Transnationalism and Japan: Concepts and Contours.” In Black Transnationalism and Japan, edited by Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi, 11–24. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024.
Doan, N. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation: Samurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture.” In Reopening the Opening of Japan: New Approaches to Japan and the Wider World in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, edited by Lewis Bremner, Manimporok Dotulong, and Sho Konishi, 21–58. Leiden: Brill, 2023.
Doan, N. “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy.” Journal of Social History 55, no. 1 (2021): 149–179.
Doan, N. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Antebellum African American Press.” The Historical Journal 62, no. 4 (2019): 997–1020.
PEER-REVIEWED ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Doan, N. “African America and Japan.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden, 2022.
Doan, N. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy.” Oxford African American Studies Center, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2020.