Hannah Shepherd | Cities After Empire

For the second Eurasian Empires workshop of the academic year, we are joined by Professor Hannah Shepherd (Yale University). Shepherd will share a chapter “Cities After Empire" from her book manuscript (working title: Crossing the Straits: Fukuoka and Pusan in the Making and Unmaking of Japanese Empire). The chapter will be shared with the registrants ahead of the event.

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About the Speaker

Hannah Shepherd is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Yale University. Before joining the Yale faculty, she was Junior Research Fellow in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She holds degrees from Harvard University (AM, PhD), SOAS (MA), and the University of Oxford (BA Hons). 

Shepherd’s teaching and research interests focus on modern Japan and its colonial empire, with an emphasis on the connected twentieth-century histories of imperial expansion, urban growth, and movement of peoples between Japan and Korea. Her current book project focuses on two cities on either side of an imperial border. 

This project is based on her Ph.D. dissertation, for which she was awarded the 2019 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize by the Harvard Department of History. Her broader interests include urban and spatial history, Pacific history, migrants and migrations, and the histories of women in Empire.