Meredith Shaw, PhD
Cultural Politics of East Asia
Welcome to my website! I study the cultural politics of East Asian countries and the effects of culture and historical memory on international relations.
Formerly a research professor at the University of Tokyo's the Institute of Social Science (社研) and managing editor of the Social Science Japan Journal, I am now a Korea Foundation fellow and visiting scholar at the Korea Institute of National Unification.
I am currently actively searching for a post in East Asia where I can continue my research on East Asian comparative politics and international relations. If you are interested in hiring me, please get in touch via my contact information on this site.
Research Interests
My research focuses on the cultural politics of East Asia, particularly top-down imposition of national culture in autocracies and the uses of forbidden culture as mobilizing symbols in social movements.
My current book project, based on 7+ years of research of literature produced by the North Korean Writers' Union, examines how foreigners and foreign lands are depicted in North Korean state-produced historical novels.