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MARTHA CHAIKLIN

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Leiden University (2003)
University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3529 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

412-383-5406
chaiklin@pitt.edu

Field(s)

Early Modern Japan, Dutch East India Company, Material Culture.

Teaching

Traditional East Asia
Japan and the West
Modern East Asia

Selected Publications

Dutch Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture, The Influence of European Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850. Leiden: CNWS, 2003.

Traditional Japanese Footwear: purity and pollution.”  chapter in Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers  edited by Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello. Oxford and New York: Berg Press,  2006

“A Miracle of Industry-The Struggle to Produce Sheet Glass in Modernizing Japan,” in Building a Modern Nation: Science, Technology and Medicine in Japan, edited by Morris Low.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

“Exotic Bird Collecting in Early Modern Japan,” chapter in JAPANimals, edited by Greg Pflugfelder and Brett Walker. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies,  University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Honors/Awards

Japan Foundation Short Term Research Fellowship (2005)

American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies Short Term Research Fellowship (2005)

Research Fellowship -the Center for Non-Western Studies, University of Leiden (1998-2000)

Fulbright Grant for the Netherlands (1996-1997)

Project(s)

Ivory trade in early modern Asia

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