College of Liberal Arts

Tadashi Ishikawa is a postdoctoral fellow in Taiwan studies  in the  School of History, Philosophy, and Religion at  Oregon State University. He received a doctorate from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2015 after earning his LL.B. from Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. Ishikawa is the recipient of many awards and honors, including a fellowship of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. His research interests include  modern Japan and East Asia, imperialism and colonialism, gender and  sexuality, and law and society. His article on the circulation of ideas on human trafficking within the Japanese empire appeared in the Journal of Women’s History in Fall 2017.