Federico Marcon is a social historian of ideas. Although his main area of expertise is early modern Japan, Marcon is interested in the interaction of social, intellectual, institutional, and politico-economic dynamics in knowledge production in the early-modern and modern periods as well as self-reflexively in the discipline of history-writing.
Marcon will be c0-teaching a Spring 2025 course with Andrea Capra. He previously taught HUM 335, A Global History of Monsters, in the Fall 2023, Fall 2022 and Fall of 2021.
See full bio on the East Asian Studies website.