Li Narangoa

Li Narangoa is a Professor at The Australian National University's School of Culture, History & Language within the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific. She holds a PhD from the University of Bonn and a BA from Inner Mongolia.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in East and Central Asian History (University of Bonn)
• BA (Inner Mongolia)

Professor Narangoa specializes in modern Northeast Asian history with emphasis on Japanese and Mongolian history, culture, and politics. Her research spans borders, empires, nationalism, memories of conflicts, and knowledge transmission. Current projects examine Japan's 20th-century Asian relations, 'Puppet states', war effects, and Mongolian medical knowledge transfer. Her publications demonstrate consistent output since 2001 with notable recent contributions to Asian Survey and Inner Asia.

Her research trends show deepening focus on:

• Memory studies and conflict reconciliation
• Transnational medical knowledge systems
• Historical legacies of empires in Northeast Asia
• Cultural representations of Mongol-Japanese historical encounters

She actively leads significant research projects including:

• Mongolian Medicine: different modes of multispecies knowledge transmission (2019-2025)
• Igor de Rachewiltz Research Fund (2019-2021)
• Puppet States Revisited: Empire and Sovereign Subordination in Modern Asia (2010-2017)

Professor Narangoa teaches Japanese history and language, the Mongol Empire in World History, and thematic courses including 'Reconcilation and Memories of Conflicts', contributing to ANU's expertise in Asian history, international relations, and cultural studies.