Susan L. Burns | Center for East Asian Studies

Susan L. Burns Areas of Study:

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality Committee on Japanese Studies Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department of History

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Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: (773) 702-8934 Email Interests:

Early modern and modern Japanese history, late Tokugawa intellectual and cultural history, medicine and public health, gender

Professor Department of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, The College; Chair, Department of History

Professor Burns focuses on 19th-century Japanese history, specifically the period between the Tokugawa era and the end of the Meiji period, and also the role of Western medicine in the lives of Japanese women.