Professor Annika Culver

Annika A. Culver PhD is Professor of Japanese History and Director of the Prince Takamado Japan Center at University of Alberta. Professor Culver has also taught at Florida State University (FSU), University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP), Skidmore College, and University of Chicago. She is an Editorial Board Member at the Texas National Security Review and belongs to the US-Japan Network for the Future. Professor Culver is author of Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (2013), winner of the Southeast Conference for the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize; Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (2022); Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan (2023), and co-editor of Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production (2019). She recently completed Princess of the Water World: The Story of a Japanese American Daimyō Family.

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2025-04-01 to 2028-03-31

"Interdisciplinary and International Research on Diplomacy in Modern Japan: Focusing on the Imperial Family, Politics, and Academia" (Principal Investigator: Masamichi Ogawara).

• Research objectives: To examine cases that contributed to the improvement of Japan-US-UK relations through the practice of "diplomacy" in a broad sense, including private diplomacy, in the worlds of the Imperial Family, politics, and academia in modern Japan, and to clarify their multifaceted reality and significance.
• Members: Masamichi Ogawara (Keio), Hiromu Nagahara (MIT), Annika A. Culver (University of Alberta), Hitoshi Komiya (Aoyama Gakuin), Seishin Funabashi (Institute of Political and Economic Affairs),Tae-youn Kang (Keio)

次世代研究プロジェクト推進プログラム

Annika A. Culver

Honolulu, HI. 2023 December;

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Annika A. Culver

London, UK. 2021 April;

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Annika A. Culver and Norman Smith, editors

Hong Kong. 2019 December;

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Annika A. Culver

Vancouver, Canada. 2013 February;