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Annika Culver

Annika A. Culver, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Florida State University (FSU), where she specializes in Modern Japan and Northeast Asia-related topics, including teaching one of the nation’s only courses on North Korean history. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago, and also holds an A.M. degree in Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA) from Harvard University, with a history degree from Vassar College. Since 2012, Dr. Culver has served as a scholar in the US-Japan Network for the Future, which connects academics to the foreign policy community. In addition, she is a Next Generation Fellow (2018-2021) affiliated with the International House-Japan, and belongs to the Mansfield Foundation’s Bridging the Divide-Korea Program.
Dr. Culver’s research and publications have focused on advertising and propaganda, cultural production in Manchukuo and the Japanese empire, and more recently, history of science. Her publications include Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (University of British Columbia Press, 2013), which won the Southeast Conference for the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) 2015 Book Prize, and the co-edited volume Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production (Hong Kong University Press, 2019). Dr. Culver’s latest book, Japanese Imperial Migrations: Aristocrats, Westerners, and Transwar Ornithology (Bloomsbury), will be published in late 2021, and she is currently writing Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan (contracted with University of Hawaii Press). Her research has been funded by the Japan Foundation, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology, USIIE (Fulbright) and other institutions. In addition, Dr. Culver regularly gives media and television interviews on East Asian topics, most recently for Voice of America, New York Times, Al Jazeera, and Nikkei News, and regularly presents at national and international venues, including Princeton University, Virginia Military Academy (VMI), Sophia University (Tokyo), Japan- US Military Program (JUMP), and YCAPS. Professor Culver is proficient in Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, French, and German.

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