Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Constantine N. Vaporis received Ph.D. in history at the Princeton University. He currently teaches Japanese and East Asian History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He has received numerous fellowships for research in Japanese history including a Fulbright Scholar’s Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He is the author of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan; Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan; Nihonjin to sankin kôtai [The Japanese and Alternate Attendance]; Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns; and The Samurai Encyclopedia. A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Elite Warrior Class; and the forthcoming The Samurai in Twelve Lives. He also teaches courses on Japan, East Asia and Asia-Pacific for various government agencies.
Vaporis was awarded the 2013-2016 UMBC Presidential Research Professorship, 2023-24 Lipitz Research Professorship; and selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau for two two-year periods, 2016-20.
Updated April 2024
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El Shōgun de James Clavell se reinventa para una nueva generación de espectadores
1 de abril de 2024 • Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
En 1980, cuando la exitosa novela histórica Shōgun de James Clavell se convirtió en una miniserie de televisión , alrededor del 33% de los hogares estadounidenses tenían un televisor sintonizado . Rápidamente se convirtió en una de las miniseries más vistas hasta la fecha, sólo superada por Roots . Soy un historiador de Japón que se especializa en la historia de Tokugawa , o era moderna temprana, un período de 1603 a 1868, durante el cual tiene lugar la mayor …
