Affiliations and Education

• Osaka University, Japan,
  Professor of Global History
• Previous teaching affiliations
  • ・University of Sheffield, England
  • ・The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
• Research Associate, The University of the Free State, South Africa
• M.A. (D.E.S.) and Ph.D., The Graduate Institute, Geneva

• Note: Some of the web pages automatically generated by ResearchGate wrongly indicate the Won Institute of Graduate Studies as my affiliation. ResearchGate tells me that it is unable to correct this error and argues that its automatically generated web pages offer a valuable service for the academic community.

Historical Research Areas

• European nation-states and transnational economic relations (19th and 20th centuries)
• Economic aspects of European colonialism (especially Africa)
• British overseas aid policy (1940s-1970s)
• Global maritime labour and the Western Indian Ocean (1860s-1940s)