Jonas Rüegg, AM '16, is the Modern Japan History Association 2024 Dissertation Winner for his work The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific (Harvard University, History and East Asian Languages, 2022). Congratulations, Jonas!
The Kuroshio Frontier adopts an oceanic perspective to shed new light on nineteenth-century Japan's geopolitical, material, and intellectual engagements with the broader Pacific world. Drawing upon extensive, original archival research,...
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