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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 203B: East Asia Discovers the World: Cartographic Encounters from the Mongols to Meiji
(Autumn)
HUMCORE 124: East Asia Discovers the World: Cartographic Encounters from the Mongols to Meiji (Autumn) HISTORY 95N: Maps in the Modern World (Autumn) HISTORY 306D: Global History & Pedagogy Workshop (Spring) HISTORY 94B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai (Spring) HISTORY 194B: Japan in the Age of the Samurai (Spring) |