{"id":17487,"date":"2026-03-31T09:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2026-04-03T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:41:53","slug":"hofmann-reto-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/faculty-en\/17487","title":{"rendered":"HOFMANN, Reto Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Position: <\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW31381882 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW31381882 BCX8\">Professor<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Degree:<\/strong> BA, Hons (UWA), MA, Mphil, PhD (Columbia)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong>\n<div class=\"ewa-rteLine\">Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University (2026- )<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor, Curtin University (2023-25)<br \/>\n\u2022 Dean Global Japan, Curtin University (2022-25)<br \/>\n\u2022 Senior Lecturer, Curtin University (2022-3)<br \/>\n\u2022 Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia (2019-22)<br \/>\n\u2022 Visiting Professor, University of St Gallen (2020)<br \/>\n\u2022 Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Waseda University (2018-9)<br \/>\n\u2022 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, Waseda University (2016-2018)<br \/>\n\u2022 Lecturer in History, Monash University (2012-2016)<br \/>\n\u2022 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University (2010-2012)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Field of Specialization<\/h3>\n<p>History of Japan, Global History, History of Authoritarianism and Fascism<\/p>\n<h3>Research Theme<\/h3>\n<p>Origins of Japanese conservatism; empire and post-imperial politics; informal spaces of sovereignty<\/p>\n<h3>Major Works \/ Publications \/ Awards<\/h3>\n<h4>Major Works \/ Publications<\/h4>\n<p>\u2022 The Empire Within: The Making of Japanese Conservatism, 1920s-1970s (manuscript under review).<br \/>\n\u2022 The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 (Cornell University Press, 2015). Paperback edition, 2020.<br \/>\n\u2022 Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920-1960 (Bloomsbury, 2021), co-edited with Max Ward<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cDreams and Nightmares: Imagining the Aftermath of War,\u201d co-written with Mark Edele, Joy Damousi, Philip Dwyer, Frances Clarke, and Hans-Lukas Kieser, English Historical Review (forthcoming, vol. 141, 2026).<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cJapan and Neoliberal Culturalism\u201d in Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, eds. Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South (Zone Books-Princeton University Press, 2022).<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cThe Conservative Imaginary: Moral Re-Armament and the Transwar Politics of the Japanese Right.\u201d Japan Forum, 33, 1 (2021), 77-102.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cWhat\u2019s Left of the Right: Nabeyama Sadachika and Anti-Communism in Transwar Japan, 1930-1960.\u201d Journal of Asian Studies, 79, 2 (May 2020), 403-427.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cThe Fascist New-Old Order.\u201d Journal of Global History, 12, 2 (July 2017), 166-183.<br \/>\n\u2022 (With Daniel Hedinger) &#8220;Editorial\u2014Axis Empires: Towards a Global History of Fascist Imperialism.&#8221; Journal of Global History, 12, 2, 2017.<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cFascist Empires: The Italian-Ethiopian War and Japanese New Order Thinking, 1935-6\u201d. Journal of Contemporary History, 50, 2 (2015): 215-230.<\/p>\n<h4>Awards<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Waseda University Research Award (High-Impact Publications), December 2018<\/li>\n<li>Finalist, Australian Historical Association\u2019s W.K. Hancock Prize for The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 (2016)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Academic Societies \/ Service to Society<\/h3>\n<h4>Academic Societies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>American Historical Association<\/li>\n<li>Association for Asian Studies<\/li>\n<li>European Association for Japanese Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Service to Society<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-editor, Book Series \u201cAsia, Europe, and Global Connections: Culture, History, and Trans-Area Studies,\u201d Routledge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Project<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>MA: Japan and Asia in Global History<\/li>\n<li>Ph.D.: Asia-Japan Relations in Modern History<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research Theme, Outline of Project Research Seminar, Message to Prospects<\/h3>\n<p>My seminars explore the place of Japan and Asia in global history. I am particularly interested in political and intellectual history, empire and imperialism, war, fascism and conservatism, and informal spaces of elite power. Students are encouraged to think about their research topics from global, transnational, and comparative perspectives.<\/p>\n<h3>Course List<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100004617_en.html#item_syllabus_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Course List<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fire\/gsaps\/en\/about\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u203b1<br \/>Professor<br \/>History of Japan, Global History, History of Authoritarianism and Fascism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17556,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/17556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fire\/gsaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}