Simon Avenell

Simon Avenell is a professor at the Australian National University specializing in modern Japanese history, civil society, social movements, and transnational history. His work has been published in leading journals, including The Journal of Japanese Studies, Science Technology and Society, Environmental History, and Modern Asian Studies. His books include Making Japanese Citizens (UC Press, 2010), Transnational Japan in the Global Environmental Movement (Hawaii, 2017), and Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity (Harvard, 2022). He recently edited the volume Reconsidering Postwar Japanese History (AUP, 2023) and is currently editing another volume on Japanese civil society (with Akihiro Ogawa, forthcoming AUP). He is also completing a comprehensive history of post-1945 Japan (forthcoming, Hawaii) and working on a project about youth and intergenerational connections/disconnections in contemporary Japan. See more at: https://savenell.wordpress.com/