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Federico Marcon studies early modern Japan and is interested in the interaction of social, economic, and intellectual dynamics in the creation of scientific knowledge in the early modern world. Professor Marcon was born and raised in Italy, where he began his studies in Japanese culture and Philosophy at “Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice. In 2008 he joined the History faculty of the University of Virginia, after receiving a PhD in History—East Asia from Columbia University and serving as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies of Harvard University. In 2011 he joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History.
* CEAS Humanities Colloquium Series