Dr. Beatrice Bodart-Bailey

Dr. Bodart-Bailey, who is German by birth, received her B.A. and M.A. from the Australian National University in Canberra. For her M.A. she submitted a thesis on “The Political Significance of the Tea Master Sen Rikyu (1522-1591)”. In 1980 she received her Ph.D. from the Department of far Eastern History, Research School of Pacific Studies at the same university, with a thesis on “Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658-1714)”. From 1982-86 she was a visiting professor in the Department of History at Ottawa University, establishing the teaching of Japanese History. Between 1986 and 1995 she held various research fellowships at AMU, and from 1989-90 she was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University. She has been a professor in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and at Kobe University, and is now Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Culture, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo.

Lectures available: 2004-09