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).
