Rebekah Clements

Rebekah Clements is an ICREA Research Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona specializing in Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868). She holds a PhD in East Asian History from the University of Cambridge and previously held positions at Durham University and Cambridge.

Research examines:

• Social integration of Korean captives after the Imjin War (1592-1598)
• Downward mobility patterns in 17th-century Chosŏn Korea
• Translation practices in early modern East Asia
• Environmental impacts of the East Asian War

Her award-winning work with Baihui Duan on Kŏje Island timber management received the Society for Military History's Vandervort Prize. Current projects analyze how war aftermath influenced Tokugawa resource governance and social structures.