IOWC Research Associate
Hideaki Suzuki
Hideaki Suzuki is a Research Fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He gained a BA in History from Gakushuin University (Japan) in 2001 and an MA, in History from Keio University (Japan) in 2003, and is currently completing his PhD at the University of Tokyo on "'Modernity' for People in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean World: A Case Study of the Slave Trade."
Proficient in Japanese, English, French, Arabic and Kiswahili, Hideaki Suzuki has received a number of prestigious research awards including a Mishima Kaiun Memorial Foundation award (2008) to investigate the "Slave Trade and Gujarati Merchants in the 19th century western Indian Ocean World;" and a Fuji Zerox Kobasyashi Setsutaro Memorial Research award (2007) to research "Continuity and transformation of traditional maritime trade in the 19th century Indian Ocean World."Hideaki Suzuki's current interests include the Indian Ocean world slave trades; seasonality of trade and life in the IOW (the cycle of production, exchange and migration within and across the major regions of the IOW, and the connections between them); the role of the whale as a major component both of the marine life of the IOW of and of the human imagination, legend, and even worship; and the Kuchchi merchant diaspora from the eighteenth to twentieth century; and Japanese historiography on the Indian Ocean world (IOW).
Publications:
Books:
2004. Isuramu to jyuji-gun. NHK Special Bunmei no michi 4. (Islam and Crusade. NHK Special. Roads of Civilization.4), with Kazuhiro Shimizu, Hiroshi Takayama, Naoko Fukami, Yuji Arai, Keiko Tsuruta, and Mu-pin Bao. Tokyo: NHK Books.
Articles and Book Chapters:
Forthcoming. "19seiki higashi-Afurika enganbu-shakai no dorei-sei to gender" ("Slavery and Gender in 19th century east African coastal society") in Hito no ido/ Bunka no kousa (Human Movements & Cultural Crossing), 7th volume of the Gender history series, eds. Toshie Awaya and Yuko Matsumoto. Tokyo: Akashi Syoten
Forthcoming. "Cyu-sei Indo-yo ni okeru kujira ni kansuru chisiki to riyou: bunken-cyu no koukaisyatachi wo jyouhou-gen ni shite" ("Knowledge and Usage of Whales in the Medieval Northern Indian Ocean: Evidence from Sailors’ Tales in the documents"), in Hogei no jin-bun gaku: jinrui-shi no aratana kanousei wo hiraku tameni (Human Science of Whaling: exploring the new perspective towards the history of human-beings). Ed. Yasunori Arano
2009. "Nushi Be ni gyoshuku sareru 19seiki Indo-yo nishi-kaiiki sekai" ("The Western Indian Ocean World through the prism of Nosy Be island") Serasera 21
2008. "Indo-yo ni okeru Kattchi Bhatiya komunitee no katudou" ("Kutch Bhattiya Activity in the Indian Ocean World") Siruku road kenkyu 30, pp. 20-22.
2008. "Indo-yo kaiiki sekai no nakano Kattchi chihou" ("Kutch in the Indian Ocean World") Siruku road kenkyu 30, pp. 4-19.
2007. "Kaiiki jyojyutu no kanousei wo kangaeru" ("Considering Historical Writing on the Maritime World"), in Higashi-ajia kaiiki kouryuu-shi genchi cyoosa kenkyuu: Chiiki, Kankyoo, Sinsei (Field Research Study on Cross Cultural History on East Asian Maritime World: Region, Environment, Mentality) 2, pp. 181-183.
2007. "Dorei ryutsu kouzou ni okeru 19seiki enganbu Swahili shakai no hisyudatuchika" ("19th Century Coastal Swahili Society in the Context of Slave Distribution") Suwahili & Afurika Kenkyu 18, pp. 21-36.
2007. "Indo-yo nishi-kaiiki to kindai: dorei-no ryustu-wo jireini shite" ("The Western Indian ocean and Modernity: A Case Study of Slave Distribution") Shigaku-zasshi 116. 7, pp.1-33.
2006."Between profit and power: The Dutch East India Company and institutional early modernities in the age of mercantilism," in: Jerry H. Bentley and H. Parker eds., Between the Middle Ages and modernity: Individual and community in the early modern world. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 285-306.
2005. "Qanbalu Tou ni kansuru shin-kaisyaku" ("A New Interpretion of Qanbalu Island") Oriento 48. 1, pp. 154-170.
Encyclopedia Entries and Reports:
Forthcoming. "Nairu suigen no tanken (19seiki nakaba)" ("Mid-19th Century Exploration in Search of the Source of the Nile"). In Rekishigaku Kenkyuu-kai, ed. Sekaishi Shiryoo shyuu (Collection of materials for world history), Vol. 8. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten.
Forthcoming. "Stanlee no Livinguston hakken (1871)" ("Stanley's Encounter with Livingstone, 1871"), ibidem.
Forthcoming. "Buushirii no teikou undou (1880nendai)" ("Bushiri's Resistance in the 1880s"), ibidem.
Forthcoming. "Igirisu no indo-yo shihai to Mombasa (19seiki zenhan)" ("British Control over the Indian Ocean and Mombasa in the early nineteenth century"), ibidem.
Forthcoming. "Indo-yo shuuhen no noukou to kaijyoo koueki no renzokusei (19seiki zenhan)" ("Connections between Agriculture and Maritime Trade around the Indian Ocean in the late nineteenth century"), ibidem.
Forthcoming. "Indo-yo sekai no doreisei (19seiki nakaba)" ("Slavery in the Indian Ocean World in the mid nineteenth century"), ibidem.
Forthcoming. "Zanzibaru no Arabu ga kataru Afurika nairikubu no yousu" ("A Description of the African Interior, as narrated by a Zanzibari Arab in the mid-nineteenth century"), ibidem.
2008. "Madora wa iccyaku no fuku to koppu hitotsu de tabidatta: Suwahili sekai no Bhattiyaa tachi" ("Madra left with a suit of clothes and a single cup: Bhattiya in the Swahili World"). In Shizen to bunka sosite kotoba (Nature,Culture and Language) 4, pp. 60-70.
2008. "Kaigai cyousa houkoku (Madagasukaru)" ("Overseas Fieldwork Report: Madagascar"). In Lingua-Culture Contextual Studies in Ethnic Conflicts of the World (Osaka University)1, pp. 231-233.
2008. "Vietnam nanbu choosa (2007nen 3gatsu)" ("Fieldwork Report: Southern Vietnam, March 2007"). In Rikkyo daigaku nihongaku kenkyuu-jyo nenpoo 7, pp. 158-166
2008. "Wangansyokoku (Qataaru, UAE) genchi cyoosa houkoku" ("Fieldwork Report: Gulf Countries, Qatar, UAE"). In Nagoya 4, pp. 45-52.
2007. "Densetsu no koukaishi Ibn Majid" ("Ibn Majid: a legendary pilot"). In UAE 42, pp. 23-26.
2006. "Umi ni ikita chisikijin Ibn Majid: 500nen no jikuu wo koete" ("Ibn Majid, an Intellectual who lived on the Ocean"). In Ajia Yuugaku 86, pp. 74-78.
2006. "Suwahili chiiki, Keniya/Tanzania" ("Swahili Region: Kenya and Tanzania"). In Kaoru Tanno (ed.) Sekai no minzoku isyou jiten (Encyclopaedia of World Ethnic Costumes), Tokyo: Tokyodo Shuppan, pp. 166-169.
2006. "Nishi-Afurika chiiki, Cameroon" ("West Africa: Cameroon"), ibidem, pp. 170-172.
Book Reviews:
2009. Chizuko Tominaga and Yoko Nagahara eds. Afarashii Afurika-shi-zo wo motomete (A New Perspective on African History). In Shigaku-zasshi 118. 4, pp. 118-128.
2008. Ronald Segal, Isuramu no kokujin dorei (Islam's Black Slaves) trans. by Kunihiro Shidara. In Isuramu sekai 70, pp. 95-102.
2007. Hikoitchi Yajima, Kaiiki kara mita sekai (World History viewed from the Ocean). In Rekishi-gaku kenkyu 831, pp. 48-51, 62.
2006. "Kaiko to tenboo: Afurika" ("Review and Prospect: Africa"), Shigaku-zasshi 115. 5, pp. 336-339.
2005. Gwyn Campbell, ed. The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. In Oriento 48. 2, pp. 179-185.
