OTA Atsushi 太田淳

Curriculum VITAE

Title Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University

Degree Ph.D. (History)(Leiden University)

Specialty Early modern and modern Southeast Asian history

Theme of Research Economic development on 19th-century insular Southeast Asia

Professional Career

Graduated from Faculty of Arts, Waseda University, March 1993

Completed the Master course (Art History), Waseda University, March 1996

Government scholarship student, September 1998 – April 1999; Advanced Master’s Program, September 1999 – August 2000; Ph. D. candidate, September 2000 – August 2005, CNWS, Leiden University

Associate Research Fellow, RCHA, Rutgers University, September 2005 – March 2006

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, August 2006 – March 2008

Assistant Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, April 2008 – March 2012

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hiroshima University, April 2012 to date