Catherine L. Phipps

Assistant Professor

Faculty Advisor for the Graduate History Association

Office: 113 Mitchell
Telephone: 901.678.4208
Fax: 901.678.2720
E-mail: cphipps1@memphis.edu
Education: Ph.D., History, Duke University, 2006

Fields of interest

Japanese Empire, Modern Japanese History, British Empire, Northeast Asian History and Culture, and Historical Geography

Courses taught

Modern Japan, Modern East Asia, World Civilizations II, Cities of Empire (Duke University)

Representative publications

• “Imperial Geographies: Remapping Japan’s Ports, Coal, and Empire in Northeast Asia, 1853-1899,” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 2007
• Review of Louise Young, Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, in Social History 23, 3 (October 1998)