Natalia Doan

Natalia Doan is the Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Wadham College and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Japanese history and transnational dynamics of resistance, culture, and solidarity.

Her work explores themes such as transnationalism, identity formation, interracial romantic relations, gender, and historical memory in Japanese and American history. She has written on African American intellectual engagement with Japan during the antebellum period.

• Ivan Morris Memorial Prize (2015), British Association for Japanese Studies
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Doan teaches Modern Japan as a Further Subject (FHS) Tutor and tutorial organizer at Wadham College, contributing to graduate-level instruction in Japanese studies.