Dr Yukiko Kawamoto
Yukiko Kawamoto completed her BA and MA (History) in Japan, and was awarded a doctorate (Classics) from King’s College London in 2016 for her thesis entitled “The Vitruvian Peristyle: A Textual and Archaeological Study”. She has since held post-doctoral positions in Kyoto, Rome, Osaka, Munich, and Nagoya. In 2020, she joined the Department of Classics at Nagoya University as associate professor. Her main research area is Roman architectural history and architectural structures described in classical sources (Greek and Latin). She is also interested in the sociopolitical history of the late Roman Republic to the early Imperial period. Her current research project is on Roman gardens, and she explores the topic from archaeological and textual evidence.
Select publications
- In press ‘Flora dei Monumenti by Giacomo Boni and Reconstructing Ancient Roman Landscapes’, Cluzel, J.-S., Unno S., and Kato, K. (eds.) Anastylosis at Large: Restoration, Reconstruction, Restitution Cultural Divergences & Convergences (De Gruyter).
- In press ‘Light in Ancient Roman Architecture: Plato, Aristotle, Lucretius, and Cicero’, Hikasa, K. (ed.) Aesthetics of Light, integrated in Architecture (Getsuyo Sha). [in Japanese] Forthcoming 2026.
- 2022 ‘Athenian Philosophical Schools and Ancient Roman Villas: Case Studies of Cicero’s Epistulae’, Suto, Y. (ed.) Ancient Mediterranean World and Cultural Memory (Yamakawa), 344-367. [in Japanese]
- 2021 ‘Vitruvius’ De architectura and its Influence in the Roman World’ in Matsui, H. (ed.) Classics and Classical Tradition in Western Art, Nagoya (Chuo Kouron Bijyutsu Shyuppan), 49-75. [in Japanese]
- 2020 ‘The Colonnaded Space in Vitruvius’ De Architectura’, in Anguissola, A., Iadanza, M., Olivito, R. (eds.) Paesaggi domestici. L’esperienza della natura nelle case e nelle ville romane –Pompei, Ercolano e l’area vesuviana (L’ERMA), 19-23.
- 2019 ‘Pompeian Gardens and their Reconstruction’, in Unno, S. (ed.) Reconstruction Studies: Historical Analysis to Reconstruction. Tokyo (Yoshikawa Kobunkan), 209-229. [in Japanese]
Joint journal articles:
- 2023 Lyu, Z., Ichikawa, K., Cheng, Y., Hayakawa, H., and Kawamoto, Y., ‘Digitization of Weather Records of Seungjeongwon Ilgi: A Historical Weather Dynamics Dataset of the Korean Peninsula in 1623-1910’, Geoscience Data Journal 11(4), 504-513.
- 2021 Murata, K., Ichikawa, K., Fujii, Y. I., Hayakawa, H., Cheng, Y., Kawamoto, Y., and Sano, H., ‘Cometary Records Revise Eastern Mediterranean Chronology around 1240 CE’, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 73(1), 197-204.
Select awards
- 2025 – Top Leaders Award for Female Faculty Members, Nagoya University.
- 2019 – Short-term Visiting Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford (June-September 2019).
- 2016 – Rome Award, the British School at Rome.
- 2013 – Early Career Researchers Presentation Award, Architectural Institute of Japan.
Further links
Dr Kawamoto’s personal website: yu-kawamoto.com
