Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA (born 29 October 1951 in Caterham, Surrey, England), born Teresa Irene Jessica Morris,[1] is an Australian historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is a Professor Emerita in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University.[2] She served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia from 2002-2003.[3]
Tessa Morris-Suzuki | |
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| Born | Teresa Irene Jessica Morris October 29, 1951 |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Education | University of Bristol (B.A) University of Bath (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Employer | Australian National University |
Early life
editBorn in Caterham, Surrey, England, she obtained her B.A. in Russian history from University of Bristol in 1972, and received a Ph.D. in the economic history of Japan from the University of Bath in 1980, completing a thesis on Japan's relations with Indonesia.[1] In 1981, she moved to Australia where she taught at the University of New England prior to accepting a post at the Australian National University in 1992.[1] Tessa Morris married to the Japanese writer Hiroshi Suzuki and incorporated her husband's surname into her double surname. In turn, her husband incorporated her surname into his pen name as Morisu Hiroshi.
Academic career
editHer research focuses on Japan's frontiers and minority communities and on questions of historical memory in East Asia. She is the author of Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War. Two of her books are To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, and Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Post-war Era. In 2024 she published a biography of Monte Punshon who "came out", joined MENSA and gained a medal from Japan after the age of 100.[4]
Awards and honours
editMorris-Suzuki was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994.[5]
In 2012, she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship.[6]
In 2013, she was the winner of the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize.[7]
In 2023, Morris-Suzuki was awarded the Distinguished Annual Lectureship by the Modern Japan History Association, presenting a lecture titled "Writing War: History in Occupied Japan and its Echoes for Today."[8]
Publications
edit- Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan, Kegan Paul International, 1988.
- History of Japanese Economic Thought, Routledge, 1992.
- The Technological Transformation of Japan, Cambridge University Press, 1994. (also published in Chinese and Korean translations)
- Re-Inventing Japan: Time Space, Nation, M. E. Sharpe, 1998. (also published in Spanish translation)
- Demokurashii no Bôken (Ventures in Democracy, co-authored), Shûeisha, 2004.
- The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History, Verso, 2005. (also published in Japanese translation)
- Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.[9] (also published in Japanese translation)
- Tennô to Amerika (The Emperor and America, coauthored), Shûeisha, 2010
- To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, Rowman and Littlefield, 2010
- Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Postwar Era, Cambridge University Press, 2010
- A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia, 2024[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Morris-Suzuki, Teresa Irene Jessica (Tessa) (1951 - )". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Elections in Japan". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ "Giving culture a hearing". New Straits Times. 24 November 2002. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
- ^ a b Mem: 10784288. "A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon's Australia (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, MUP) | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 21 February 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Fellow Profile: Tessa Morris-Suzuki". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "ANU tops nation in ARC Laureate Fellowships". Australian National University. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
- ^ "Tessa MORRIS-SUZUKI". Retrieved 21 July 2013.
- ^ "MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture". Modern Japan History Association. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
- ^ "Professor details Japanese deportations". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 22 February 2007. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
External links
edit- Morris-Suzuki, Teresa Irene Jessica (Tessa) (1951–) at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia