Profile

Abstract

Nadin Heé is professor for Global History of Modern Japan. Her research is at the intersection of empire studies, science and technology studies, and environmental history. Research fellowships and visiting professorships allowed her to do research in Japan at Kyoto, and Tokyo University and in Taiwan at Academia Sinica. As a professor, she worked at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and two Centers for Global History (Free University Berlin and Osaka University). She joined Leipzig University 2024 and leads the Centre for Transimperial History together with Daniel Hedinger.

Publications (selection)

-“Globalizing Japanese Tuna fisheries. Oceanic Sovereignty in the Twentieth-Century Transimperial Indo-Pacific”, Annales, 2023.

-with Daniel Hedinger: “Transimperial History. Connectivity, Cooperation, and Competition”, Journal of Modern European History, 2018.

-Imperiales Wissen und koloniale Gewalt: Japans Herrschaft in Taiwan 1895–1945, Campus 2012.