専門分野
日本宗教史（近代仏教と科学思想）
近代科学史（日本進化論の思想）
アジア主義
軍事思想史
学歴
PhD., History, The University of Chicago, U.S.A., 2009
B.A., Japanese Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1999
職歴
Associate Professor, Tohoku University
Department of Global Japanese Studies, 2018-
Lecturer, Hokkaido University
Modern Japanese Studies Program, 2015-2018
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Department of History, 2011-2015
Research and Teaching Fellow, University of Cambridge
Needham Research Institute & Faculty for Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 2009-2011
業績（抜粋）
単著
Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and the Weatherhead Institute at Columbia University, 2017)
論文
“Nichirenism, Utopianism, and Modernity: Rethinking Ishiwara Kanji’s East-Asia League Movement,” Japanese Journal for Religious Studies, 42/2, December 2015, pp. 235-274.
“Spencerism in Japan: Boom and Bust of A Theory (1868-1911)” in Bernard Lightman (Ed.), Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 56-77.
“Tezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and Buddhism,” Mechademia (University of Minnesota Press) November 2013, Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 34 – 47.
“‘Philosophy’ or ‘Religion’? The Confrontation with Foreign Categories in Late Nineteenth Century Japan,” Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 69, n.1, January 2008, pp. 71-91.
「コケムシから哲学まで――近代日本の「進化論・生物学の哲学」の先駆者としての丘浅次郎」[From Moss Animals to Philosophy: Oka Asajirō, Modern Japan’s pioneer in the Philosophy of Biology and Evolutionary Theory] (『日本哲学史研究』4 、75-99 頁、2007 年11 月)
“Tracing the Circle of Truth: Inoue Enryō on the History of Philosophy and Buddhism,” The Eastern Buddhist (vol. xxxvi, December 2004), pp. 106-133.