Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Constantine N. Vaporis, Professor of History (Ph.D. Princeton University)
Constantine Vaporis teaches Japanese and East Asian History at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He has received numerous fellowships for research in Japanese history including a Fulbright Scholar’s Award and an NEH Fellowship for College Teachers. He is the author of Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan; Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo and the Culture of Early Modern Japan; Nihonjin to sankin kôtai [The Japanese and Alternate Attendance]; Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns; and Samurai. An Encyclopedia of Japan's Cultured Warriors. He also teaches courses on Japan, East Asia and Asia-Pacific for various government agencies.
Vaporis was awarded the 2013-2016 UMBC Presidential Research Professorship and was recently selected for the ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau for two two-year periods, 2016-20.

Japan’s next emperor is a modern, multilingual environmentalist
Apr 27, 2019 06:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For the first time in 217 years, a Japanese emperor will cede his place on the imperial throne. On April 30, Japans ailing 85-year-old Emperor Akihito will abdicate and be replaced the following day by his 59-year-old...