I am an historian of early Japan at the University of Sydney and editor of PMJS: Premodern Japanese Studies (pmjs.org). My research focuses primarily on the history of cities and architecture before 1800 and I am currently completing a book manuscript on the urban history of Kyoto to 1600. Other research interests include comparative urban history, religion, material culture, and art. 

I trained in architectural and urban history at Kyoto University and completed my Ph.D. in East Asian Studies at Princeton (2005). I am the history area editor for the journal Japanese Studies

I teach widely on all periods of Japanese history and historiography, methods in Asian Studies, classical Chinese (kanbun), and more broadly on the histories and cultures of East Asia. 

I am a native of Michigan and dual citizen of the United States and Australia.


Contact:
Department of Japanese Studies
School of Languages and Cultures
The University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA
+61-2-9351-4805 | FAX +61 2-9351-2319
matthew.stavros@sydney.edu.au





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Reconstruction after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated
the Tohoku region on March 11, 2011 will be long and hard. Please give to 
the Japanese Red Cross Society.





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