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Shohei Sato is a Professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences under the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His academic focus spans International Relations, Decolonization, British Imperial History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Global History, with field-specific expertise in topics like collective memory, colonial document destruction, and sovereignty evolution in the Arabian Peninsula.
- PhD in History from the University of Oxford
- 2023–Now: Professor, Waseda University
- 2017–2025: Visiting Fellow at LSE and Visiting Scholar at BITS Pilani
- 2013–2017: Tenured Associate Professor, Kanazawa University
His research explores the systematic destruction of colonial records during decolonization, particularly through Britain's 'Operation Legacy' revealed via FCO 141 archives. He compares imperial cover-ups across British and Japanese empires, analyzing document concealment patterns in 20th-century independence movements. A key contribution is reinterpreting UAE formation as a product of improvised British decisions rather than strategic planning, while tracing how judo's globalization challenged diffusionist models.
Recent publications include analyses of British document destruction (2019), Gulf state sovereignty (2016), and environmental history in Abu Dhabi (2012). Grants from JSPS, Inamori Foundation, and Mitsubishi Foundation support his comparative studies on imperial secrecy practices and resource-driven territorial disputes.
Awards include the prestigious Beit Prize (2009) and Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award (2016). He serves on editorial boards like Sport in History and sits on the 2024–2025 JAIR Award Selection Committee.
