Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Constantine N. Vaporis received Ph.D. in history at the Princeton University. He currently teaches Japanese and East Asian History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He has received numerous fellowships for research in Japanese history including a Fulbright Scholar’s Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He is the author of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan; Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan; Nihonjin to sankin kôtai [The Japanese and Alternate Attendance]; Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns; and The Samurai Encyclopedia. A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Elite Warrior Class; and the forthcoming The Samurai in Twelve Lives. He also teaches courses on Japan, East Asia and Asia-Pacific for various government agencies.
Vaporis was awarded the 2013-2016 UMBC Presidential Research Professorship, 2023-24 Lipitz Research Professorship; and selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau for two two-year periods, 2016-20.
Updated April 2024
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O Shōgun de James Clavell é reinventado para uma nova geração de telespectadores
1 de Abril de 2024 • Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
Em 1980, quando o romance histórico de grande sucesso de James Clavell, Shōgun, foi transformado em uma minissérie de TV , cerca de 33% dos lares americanos tinham televisão sintonizada . Rapidamente se tornou uma das minisséries mais vistas até hoje, perdendo apenas para Roots . Sou um historiador do Japão especializado na história dos Tokugawa , ou início da era moderna – um período de 1603 a 1868, durante o qual ocorre a maior parte da ação em “Shōgun”. …
