Tessa Morris-Suzuki

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Tessa Morris-Suzuki
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at the Center for Korean Studies in 2016
Born
Teresa Irene Jessica Morris

October 29, 1951
Caterham, Surrey, England
Nationality Australia
Education University of Bristol (B.A)
University of Bath (Ph.D.)
OccupationHistorian
Employer Australian National University

Tessa Morris-Suzuki FAHA (born 29 October 1951 in Caterham, Surrey, England), born Teresa Irene Jessica Morris, [1] is a historian of modern Japan and North Korea. She is a Professor Emerita in the School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University. [2] She served as president of the Asian Studies Association of Australia from 2002-2003. [3]

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Early life

Born in Caterham, Surrey, England, she obtained her B.A. in Russian history from University of Bristol in 1972, and received a Ph.D. in the economic history of Japan from the University of Bath in 1980, completing a thesis on Japan's relations with Indonesia. [1] In 1981, she moved to Australia where she taught at the University of New England prior to accepting a post at the Australian National University in 1992. [1] Tessa Morris married to the Japanese writer Hiroshi Suzuki and incorporated her husband's surname into her double surname. In turn, her husband incorporated her surname into his pen name as Morisu Hiroshi.

Academic career

Her research focuses on Japan's frontiers and minority communities and on questions of historical memory in East Asia. She is the author of Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan's Cold War. Two of her books are To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred Year Journey Through China and Korea, and Borderline Japan: Foreigners and Frontier Controls in the Post-war Era. In 2024 she published a biography of Monte Punshon who "came out", joined MENSA and gained a medal from Japan after the age of 100. [4]

Awards and honours

Morris-Suzuki was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994. [5]

In 2012, she was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship. [6]

In 2013, she was the winner of the Academic Prize of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize. [7]

In 2023, Morris-Suzuki was awarded the Distinguished Annual Lectureship by the Modern Japan History Association, presenting a lecture titled "Writing War: History in Occupied Japan and its Echoes for Today." [8]

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References

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  2. "Elections in Japan". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 26 August 2009. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
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