My name is Michael Facius.
I am a historian working at University College London.
I am a historian of early modern and modern Japan in its regional and global contexts . Currently I work at the Centre for Transnational History, University College London as a British Academy Newton International Fellow. My research interests are in global history, the history of knowledge, historiography, translation studies, and software studies. I received my Dr. phil. from Freie Universität Berlin in 2016. Before moving on to Berlin, I pursued an MA in linguistics, Japanese studies and political scienc