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Japanese-Russian Transnational Comparison: Literary Circulation and Formation of Knowledge (Routledge, 2026)

Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

“The First Symbiotic Multispecies Robot: Gakutensoku’s Symbiotic Cosmos.” History and Technology 41, no. 2 (2025): 158–86.

"'The First Step Towards Racial Equality': The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance." Modern Asian Studies, February 17, 2025, 207-233.

Japan in the Early Modern: World Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations (J.B. Metzler, 2025)

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945, (University of Hawai'i Press 2024)

"Hong Kong's Anime: A Cultural History of Anime in Hong Kong's Last Decade." The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 5 (December 2024): 75-112.

Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press 2024)

"Transnational Community Building through Women and Girls: Constructing an Intergenerational Girls' Mission School Network Across Borders in 1920s and 1930s Japan." Journal of Women's History 36, no. 3 (2024): 71-93.

"Selling Bodies in the Age of the Flesh: Bodies, Dance, and Postwar Japan." In Histories of Sex Work Around the World, edited by Catherine Phipps. Routledge, 2024.

"A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the Making of Naniwabushi as a Mode of Popular Dissent in Transwar Japan, 1902-1909." Modern Asian Studies 58, no. 2 (2024): 512-35.

"Metchnikoff Léon." In Élisée Reclus: les 101 mots, edited by Pauline Couteau, Nicolas Eprendre, Federico Ferretti, and Philippe Pelletier. L'écart absolu. Les presses du réel, 2024.

Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2023)

The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford University Press, 2023)

"Curators of China Knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan" in Journal of Art Historiography (2023)

"The Transnational Historiography of a Dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing Transition in Seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan," Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 3 (2023): 776–807.

"Minakata Kumagusu and the Emergence of Queer Nature: Civilization Theory, Buddhist Science, and Microbes, 1887–1892" in Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (2023): 1105–34.

"Between Animated Cells and Animated Cels: Symbiotic Turn and Animation in Multispecies Life." Science as Culture 33, no. 2 (2023): 174-204.

"Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States." The Historical Journal 66, no. 1 (2023): 101-21.

"Pre-War Anarchism in Japan." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press, 2023.

"From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain" in Japan Forum (February, 2022)

 "African America and Japan." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press, 2022.

"Body (of) Knowledge: Women, the Body, and Dance in Postwar Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (January, 2022)

"Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan," Past and Present (January, 2022)

Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm  (Cambria Press, 2021)

"Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," Journal of Social History (Fall, 2021)

"Symbiogenesis." In Structures of Mutual Support. 2021.

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)

"Survive to be critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘masquerading’ media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905," War in History (June, 2020)

"The Magic Lantern as a Lens for Observing the Eye in Tokugawa Japan: Technology, Translation, and the Rangaku Movement." Modern Asian Studies 54, no. 3 (2020): 691-729.

"Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19" in Journal for the History of Environment and Society (2020)

"The 1860 Japanese Embassy and The Antebellum African American Press." The Historical Journal 62, no. 4 (2019): 997-1020.

"Transnational Anarchism, Japanese Revolutionary Connections, and the Personal Politics of Exile." The Historical Journal 61, no. 3 (2018): 719-41.

"Provincialising the State: Symbiotic Nature and Survival Politics in Post-World War Zero Japan." In New Worlds from Below: Informal Life Politics and Grassroots Action in Twenty-First-Century Northeast Asia, edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Eun Jeong Soh. ANU Press, 2017.

"A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906-28." In Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements, edited by Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

"Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)Birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu." In Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan, edited by Yoneyuki Sugita. Springer, 2016.

“Contesting Imperial Geography: Reading Élisée Reclus in 1930s’ Hokkaido.” In The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2016.

"The Science of Symbiosis and Linguistic Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Japan." Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems 13, no. 2 (2015): 299-317.

"The Emergence of an International Humanitarian Organization in Japan: The Tokugawa Origins of the Japanese Red Cross." The American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (2014): 1129-53.

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

"Ordinary Farmers Living Anarchist Time: Arishima Cooperative Farm in Hokkaido, 1922-1935." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 6 (2013): 1845-87.

"Translingual World Order: Language without Culture in Post-Russo-Japanese War Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (2013): 91-114.

"When Global and Local Culture Meet: Esperanto in 1920s Rural Japan." Language Problems and Language Planning 37, no. 2 (2013): 179-96.

"The People at Rest: The Anarchist Origins of Ogawa Usen's 'Nihonga.'" World Art 1, no. 2 (2011): 235-56.

"The Absence of Portsmouth in an Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Imagination of Peace." In The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, edited by Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley. Dartmouth College Press and University Press of New England, 2008.

"Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan." In Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity, edited by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart. Brill, 2007.

"Reopening the 'Opening of Japan': A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress." The American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007): 101-30.