Natalia Doan shortlisted for the RHS Alexander Prize
Date Published: 10.06.2022
The Society's annual Alexander Prize is awarded for a journal article or book chapter written by an early career historian.
The Royal Historical Society has shortlisted Dr Natalia Doan’s article, entitled ‘Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy’ (Journal of Social History), for the 2022 RHS Alexander Prize.
The Society's annual Alexander Prize is awarded for a journal article or book chapter written by an early career historian.
"Wadham has been a wonderful place to conduct research and I am honoured to be part of such a supportive and intellectually stimulating community," Natalia said.
Natalia is the Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Wadham.
Her paper claims that "Examining how interactions between samurai diplomats and transnational actors challenged antebellum hierarchies of race, masculinity, and power expands the significance of the 1860 embassy to the study of gender and interracial romantic relations, the production of regional identity, and the influence of Tokugawa Japan on antebellum American identity formation."