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Main Research
– Global Environmental History
– Early Modern and Modern Japanese History
– Pacific History
– Knowledge, Science and Technology in Society
Curriculum Vitae
| 2016–2022 | Harvard University: Ph.D. History and East Asian Languages. | |
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Harvard University: M.A. Regional Studies – East Asia. |
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2013 |
Embassy of Switzerland in Japan: academic traineeship, political section. |
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2008–2013 |
University of Zurich: B.A. Japanese Studies (major) and General History (minor). |
Monograph
Rüegg, Jonas. The Kuroshio Frontier: Empire and Environment in the Making of Japan’s Pacific. Cambridge Oceanic Histories. Cambridge University Press, Oct. 2025. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kuroshio-frontier/A3240222992D53CAAAB0223267DEFEB8
Select Other Publications
Rüegg, Jonas. “Book Review: DEMARCATING JAPAN: Imperialism, Islanders, and Mobility, 1855– 1884 By Takahiro Yamamoto.” Pacific Affairs 98, no. 1 (2025): 160–62. https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/demarcating-japan-imperialism-islanders-and-mobility-1855-1884-by-takahiro-yamamoto/
Rüegg, Jonas. “Islands of the Kuroshio Frontier, or: Building the Infrastructure of an Archipelagic Empire.” In Oceanic Japan, edited by Ian J. Miller, Heé, Nadin, Huebner, Stefan, and Tsutsui, William M. University of Hawaii Press, 2024.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780824899271/html?lang=en
Rüegg, Jonas. “Uhren und Kanonen für ein Reich im Umbruch.” NZZ Geschichte 51 (2024): 68–79.
Rüegg, Jonas. “Oceanic Knowledge and National Space-Time in Pacific History.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 10, no. 2 (2024): 111–37.
https://doi.org/10.1353/vrg.2024.a934657
Rüegg, Jonas. “Early Modern Japan and the Problem of ‘Drugs.’” In Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan, edited by Judith Vitale, Oleg Benesch, and Miriam Kingsberg Kadia. Brill, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004548763_003.
Rüegg, Jonas. “小笠原諸島探検と近代科学 Ogasawara Shotō Tanken to Kindai Kagaku [The Exploration of the Ogasawara Islands and Modern Science].” In Yōgaku-Shi Kenkyū Jiten 洋学史研究辞典, edited by Aoki Toshiyuki 青木歳幸, Umihara Ryō 海原亮, Kutsuzawa Nobutaka 沓澤宣賢, Satō Ken’ichi 佐藤賢一, Tanaka van Daalen, Isabel イサベル・田中・ファンダーレン, and Matsukata Fuyuko 松方冬子. Shibunkaku, 2021.
https://yogakushi.jpn.org/jiten.html.
Select International Affiliations
| 2022 | Kokugakuin University, Visiting Research Fellowship, 2022/Jun.–Aug. | |
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| 2019–21 |
The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute, sponsored by the Swiss National Research Fund (SNSF). 2019/Sep.–2021/Feb. |
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2019 |
Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Visiting Researcher. 2019/Jun.–Aug. |
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2018 |
The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute. 2018/May–Jul. |
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2017 |
Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) Research Fellowship. 2017/Jun.–Jul. |
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2016 |
The University of Tokyo, Foreign Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute. 2016/Jun.–Aug. |
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2015 |
National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan) International Chinese Language Program (ICLP). 2015/Jun.–Aug. |
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2010–11 |
Doshisha University (Kyoto/Japan), exchange year. 2010/Apr.–2011/Mar. |
Teaching at UZH
2025 Fall: Proseminar II: “Crises as Transformative Processes from Middle Age to Anthropocene.” Co-teaching with Uma van der Weij, M.A.
2025 Fall: BA Research Seminar: “ Japan in the Early Modern World.”
2025 Fall: Graduate Colloquium: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History.” Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
2025 Spring: MA Research Seminar: “Experiences of Migration and Displacement: Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry.”
2025 Spring: Graduate Colloquium: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History.” Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
2025 Spring: Graduate Colloquium: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History.” Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.
2024 Fall: BA Research Seminar: “The Japanese Empire in Ecological Perspective”
2024 Fall: Proseminar I: “Environmental Crises in Global Historical Perspective.”
2024 Fall: Graduate Colloquium: “MA/PhD Colloquium in Global History.” Co-teaching with Martin Dusinberre.