Mark Ravina
Department Chair, REALC
Associate Professor of Japanese History
| Office: | 206-B REALC |
| Phone: | 404 727 4025 |
| Fax: | 404 712 8511 |
| E-mail: | histmr@emory.edu |
About me
I have been at Emory since 1991, when I received my Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. My speciality is Japan, especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century politics.
My latest book, The Last Samurai, a biography of Saigô Takamori, was published in November 2003. Saigô's life was the inspiration for the Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai. For more visit www.lastsamurai.info
Areas of interest
- Japanese history (Eighteenth and Nineteenth-century politics)
- Transnational history
- Emphasizing interactions between nations and culture
Courses taught
- Legends of the Samurai (Hist 190)
- East Asia, 1500 to the Present (Hist 285)
- Medieval and Early Modern Japan (Hist 371)
- The Rise of Modern Japan (Hist 372)
- Fundamentalism in East Asia (Hist 489SWR)
- History and Social Theory (Hist 581)
- Seminar in Professionalization (Hist 585)
Selected Publications
Books
- The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigô Takamori, John Wiley and Sons, 2004.
- Land and Lorship in Early Modern Japan, Stanford University Press, 1999.
Refereed Journal Articles
- "Japanese state-making in Global Context: World culture and Meiji Japan" in State Making in Asia, edited by Richard Boyd and Tak-wing Ngo, (Routledge, 2006).
- "State-making in Global Context: Japan in a World of Nation-States, " inThe Teleology of the Modern Nation-State, edited by Joshua Fogel, 87-104, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
- "State-building and Political Economy in Early Modern Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (November 1995).
- "Wasan and the Physics that Wasn't," Monumenta Nipponica 48:2 (Summer 1993)