Jeffrey Newmark
Associate Professor
Religion and Culture
University of Winnipeg
Canada
Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Newmark earned his PhD in 2009 from the University of British Columbia, Asian Studies, with a major in Thought of the Tokugawa Period. He has lived off and on for five years in Japan: three years in Hokkaido while on the JET Programme; and two years in Kyoto as a Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology research fellow. He initially came to Manitoba to teach as a summer sessional at the University of Manitoba, and soon thereafter began teaching at the University of Winnipeg. He is currently working on revising his dissertation into a manuscript while also researching Japanese intellectual diplomacy in the late 1600s. In his spare time, he enjoys watching and playing basketball, downhill skiing, movies, and traveling.
Research Interest
Public sphere and civil society in early modern Japan; Japanese-Korean intellectual interchange in the Tokugawa / Joseon periods; Legends of nineteenth century Japan.
