Steffen Rimner is Assistant Professor in the History of International Affairs and Ad Astra Fellow at University College Dublin. He works on the Asia Pacific region and its global connections from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, especially issues surrounding transnational mobilization, international protest and challenges to conflict resolution.
He previously held affiliations at Harvard (Weatherhead Center for International Affairs), Yale (International Security Studies), Oxford (Rothermere American Institute) where he was a guest of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at St Antony’s College, Columbia (Weatherhead East Asian Institute and International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT)), Waseda (Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies), the University of Tokyo (Institute for the Advanced Studies on Asia / Tobunken) and the International Institute for Asian Studies and was a SIAS fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. He received grants from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Asia Center, the Committee on Australian Studies and the Canada Program, all at Harvard, from Columbia University and the Mellon Foundation, from the American Philosophical Society (Franklin Research Grant), the British Academy (Early Career Seed Grant), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in New York (Transregional Junior Research Scholar Fellowship, InterAsian Contexts and Connections Program) and others.
He is the author of Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control (Harvard University Press, 2018) and has published in the Journal of Global History, in Asia Pacific in the Age of Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), in Global Publics: Their Power and their Limits, 1870-1990 (Oxford University Press, 2020) and in the Journal of the British Academy special issue on “Memories of Violence”. At present he is writing a second monograph on Sino-American relations for Harvard University Press.
He was educated at the University of Konstanz (B.A.), Yale University and Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.) where he was a John Clive Fellow. He served as an expert panellist on multilateralism in drug control before the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (UNCND) Reconvened 62nd session.
At UCD, he is also a member of the Asia Pacific Research Network.
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Phone: +353 (0) 1 716 8106