Sho Konishi is the University Lecturer in the History of Modern Japan in the Faculty of History and the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford, where he is currently the Senior Tutor and Governing Body Fellow of St. Antony’s College.  He studies cultural, intellectual and trans-national history from 1700.  His current research interests include historical epistemology, history of anarchist natural science and ethnography, and language and translation as intellectual history.