Daniel Botsman
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Research Interests
Daniel Botsman joined the faculty at UNC-CH in 2006. His
first book was a translation of the memoirs of a post-war Japanese
foreign minister named Okita Saburo, but his interests have
subsequently come to focus on the social history of Japan in the
Tokugawa (1600-1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. In 2005 he
published a study of the history of punishment and prisons titled
Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern
Japan (Princeton UP). He is currently working on a new
book project about the ways that ideas of freedom and emancipation were
taken up in Japan in the decades immediately following the Meiji
Restoration of 1868, and a volume of translated essays by Japanese
historians of the Tokugawa period.
He teaches survey courses on Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, as well as
seminar classes on gender and Japanese history, the history of
punishment, and research methods.
The photograph above shows Botsman at the birthplace of Ueki
Emori, one of the most progressive thinkers and activists of the Meiji
era.