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.
Professional career
- since 04/2024
Professor for Global History of Modern Japan, Leipzig University - 07/2021 - 03/2024
Professor for Global History, Osaka University - 01/2015 - 05/2021
Associate Professor (Jun.prof) for Global History of Knowledge, Free University Berlin/Max Planck Institute for the History of ScienceProject leader research group “East Asian Impacts on the Globalization of Knowledge: Marine Resources during the Cold War” - 09/2020 - 12/2020
Fellowship at "Zentrum für Globalgeschichte", LMU - 03/2020 - 07/2020
Visiting Professor, Kyoto University (cancelled due to Covid 19) - 09/2016 - 12/2016
Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo - 10/2013 - 03/2014
Visiting Professorship for Japanese Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin - 01/2011 - 12/2014
Project Leader research group "Korea and East Asia in Global History", Free University Berlin - 01/2013 - 10/2013
Visiting Fellow, University of Tokyo - 02/2010 - 12/2010
Teaching Fellow, University of Zurich - 01/2004 - 12/2008
Co-leader and coordinator of the Swiss National Foundation project “Surimono” Museum für Gestaltung, Rietberg Museum Zurich
Education
- 03/2006 - 10/2010
Ph.D in History (Modern History)Freie Universität Berlin - 02/2005 - 02/2006
Visiting student at the Institute of Social Science at Tokyo University - 02/2005 - 02/2006
Scholarship of the Max Weber Foundation, German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo - 10/1997 - 05/2004
MA (Liz.Phil.) in History, Japanese Studies, and East Asian Art HistoryUniversity of Zurich