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Dr Alison Darby is a Visiting Fellow at the Australia-Japan Research Centre, School of Culture, History & Language, The Australian National University. She holds a PhD in Pacific and Asian History and is currently a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University (2024–2025).
- Education: Doctor of Philosophy (Pacific and Asian History), ANU
Her research focuses on Japanese imperial history, with specializations in colonial Korea and Taiwan, gender studies, eugenics, and disability activism. Key themes include interethnic intimacy, marriage policies, and assimilation strategies under Japanese colonial rule.
Her 2023 article examines advice columns in colonial Taiwan to analyze state management of interethnic relationships, highlighting how marital norms were tools of imperial control. This work bridges historical analysis with gender and political discourse.
- Awards: Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (Monash University)
Her current project adapts her doctoral thesis, Patriotic Marriage, into a monograph exploring eugenics and marital politics in the Japanese empire (1931–1945). No grants or student advisement details are listed, though her affiliation with ANU and Monash underscores collaborative research networks. She is affiliated with the Australia-Japan Research Centre, focusing on interdisciplinary Northeast Asian studies.
