Faculty Associates

Ian J. Miller

Professor of History




Office: CGIS South S421
Email: ian_miller@harvard.edu
Web:  http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ian-miller

Research Interests: 

Modern Japanese history, with primary focus on imperialism and the cultural dimensions of scientific, medical, and environmental change; international history of natural history, especially as relates to animal collection, classification, and exhibition; global history of tsunami.

Related Publications: 

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (University of California Press, 2013). With forward by Harriet Ritvo.

Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013).

“Bitter Legacy, Injured Coast,” New York Times, March 19, 2011.

"Didactic Nature: Exhibiting Nation and Empire at the Ueno Zoological Gardens" in JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life (Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2005).

Japan's Natural Legacies: Bodies and Landscapes Realized, Idealized, and Poisoned. (Conference, 2008)

Didactic Nature: Exhibiting Nation and Empire at the Ueno Zoological Gardens. (2005)

Faculty Department: 

History

Environmental Courses: 

*History 97D. What is Environmental History?
HIST 1610. Environment: China, Japan, Korea
*HIST 1910. The History of Energy
*HIST 2951. The Environmental Turn in History: Seminar

Research Areas: 

Harvard University
Center for the Environment
Address: 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
Email: huce@environment.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0368

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