Professor Shigeru Akita
Akita was born in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, in 1958, graduated from Hiroshima University (BA in History in 1981; MA in History in 1983), and received a PhD in history in 2003 from Osaka University.
He worked at Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan, from 1985 to 2023, and has held the position as Professor of Global History, Graduate School of Humanities, and the head of Global History Division, Institute for Open and Transdisciplinary Research Initiatives (OTRI), Osaka University, before retirement in March 2024.
He was the President of the Asian Association of World Historians (AAWH) (2015-2022), and the President of the East Asian Association of British History (EAABH) (2018-2024). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and sit on the editorial boards of Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History and Journal of Global History.
Select publications
- (ed.) Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order: Economy, Development, and Aid in Asia and Africa (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
- (ed.) American Empire in Global History (London and New York: Routledge, 2022).
- Teikoku kara Kaihatsu-Enjyo e [From Empires to Development Aid] (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2017).
- (ed. with G. Krozewski and Shoichi Watanabe) The Transformation of the International Order of Asia: Decolonization, the Cold War, and the Colombo Plan (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).
- (ed. with Nick White) International Order of Asia in the 1930s and the 50s (London: Ashgate, 2010).
- Igirisu-Teikoku to Ajia Kokusai Chitujo [The British Empire and the International Order of Asia] (Nagoya: Nagoya University Press, 2003).
- (ed.) Gentlemanly Capitalism, Imperialism and Global History (London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2002).
Select awards
- The Twentieth Ohira Memorial Prize, in June 2004, from the Ohira Memorial Foundation
- The Fourteenth Yomiuri-Yoshino Sakuzo Prize, in July 2013, from Yomiuri Newspaper and Chuo-Koron Shinsha
- Purple Ribbon Medal, in November 2022, from the Japanese Emperor
Further links
globalhistoryonline: https:www.globalhistoryonline.org
