DR. NATALIA DOAN
Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Doan, N., and Sho Konishi, eds. (Jan 2024) Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden: Leiden University Press).
Doan, N. 2014. How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Doan, N. 2020. “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy,” Journal of Social History, https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shaa049 .
*shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society 2022 Alexander Prize
Doan, N. 2019. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Antebellum African American Press,” The Historical Journal 62, no. 4 (2019): 997–1020, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X19000050 .
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Doan, N. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilization: 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.
Reference Publications
Doan, N. 2022. “African America and Japan,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.671 .
Doan, N. 2020. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy,” Oxford African American Studies Center.
Online Articles and Interviews
January 2023. Interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine for the article “Who Was Yasuke, Japan’s First Black Samurai?” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai-180981416/
Doan, N. 21 May 2019. “The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Antebellum African American Press,” CambridgeCore blog.
Awards and Fellowships
June 2022.Shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society 2022 Alexander Prize for “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy.”
April 2017. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
2015. Winner of the British Association for Japanese Studies Ivan Morris Memorial Prize.
(from the BAJS website): "BAJS has administered the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize since 1979. This annual prize is awarded in commemoration of the late Professor Ivan Morris to a student submitting an outstanding piece of work in the field of Japanese Studies."
Presentations
July 2023. “Bakumatsu ni sekai o mawatta bushi: Nihon hatsu no shisetsudan to karera ga Amerikajin ni ataeta eikyō” [The samurai who crossed the seas during the bakumatsu period: Japan’s first embassy and their impact on the American people]. Presentation in Japanese for Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
June 2023. “Reassessing Japan’s Iwakura Mission (1871-73) and the United States: Origins and Outcomes.” Panel chair and commentator. 2023 Conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Arlington, VA.
June 2023. “The Antebellum African American Press and Transnational Solidarity with Samurai” in panel entitled “A Genealogy of Afro-Asian Intimacy: From the Antebellum Era to the Present Day.” Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders and Sexualities, 2023. Santa Clara University, California.
June 2022. “Transnational Solidarity and Hope for the Future: African American Newspapers and the 1860 Japanese Embassy.” Japanese Black Studies Association Annual Conference. Presentation in Japanese.
October 2021. “Antebellum African American Visions of Japanese Solidarity.” Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference. Digital conference co-convener and panelist. Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford.
May 2019. “Samurai, Seduction, and Slander: ‘Prince Tommy’ and Representations of the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States.” “Reopening the ‘Opening’ of Japan” Conference. University of Oxford.
March 2019. “Samurai and Southern Belles: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Commodification of ‘Female Diplomacy.’” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Denver, Colorado.
January 2016. “American Representations of the 1860 Japanese Embassy.” Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
October 2015. “Samurai and Southern Belles: Southern Representations of the 1860 Japanese Diplomatic Mission to the United States.” Association for Asian Studies, New York Conference on Asian Studies.
