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Personal bio
Kären Wigen is Professor and Chair of History at Stanford, where she teaches courses on early modern Japan and on the history of cartography. A geographer by training (Ph.D. 1990, UC Berkeley), she is currently working on issues of travel, cultural encounter, and port-city development in early modern East Asia. Her latest book is A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010).
Currently teaching
HISTORY 304: Approaches to History
(Autumn)
HISTORY 95N: Maps in the Modern World
(Autumn)
MLA 384: Maps in the Early Modern World
(Winter)
COLLEGE 121: East Asia Discovers the World
(Spring)
HISTORY 309F: Maps in the Early Modern World
(Spring)
HISTORY 209F: Maps in the Early Modern World
(Spring)
EASTASN 300: Graduate Directed Reading
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
HISTORY 299S: Undergraduate Directed Research and Writing
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
HISTORY 299B: Senior Research II
(Autumn, Winter, Spring)
HISTORY 299A: Senior Research I
(Autumn, Winter, Spring)
HISTORY 299C: Senior Research III
(Autumn, Winter, Spring)
HISTORY 399W: Graduate Directed Reading
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
URBANST 199: Senior Honors Thesis
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
HISTORY 299F: Curricular Practical Training
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
HISTORY 499X: Graduate Research
(Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer)
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