CV

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Contact Information

Name Michael Schiltz
Professional Title Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History (financial history)
Email michael.schiltz@gmail.com
Website https://michaelschiltz.github.io

Professional Summary

Financial historian. Research on the history of finance in Japan and Asia, exchange banking, monetary systems, and the archival foundations of historical work.

Experience

  • 2018 - present
    Associate Professor
    Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University
    Specialty: financial history. From April 2026 also associated with the Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration.
  • 2016 - 2018
    Director of Digital Humanities and Lecturer in History
    Graduate Institute, Geneva
  • 2011 - 2016
    Associate Professor
    Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
  • 2010 - 2014
    Principal Investigator
    ERC Starting Grant JAPANGREATDEPRESSION (240854)
  • 2006 - 2010
    Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)
    Research theme: The Money Doctors from Japan
  • 2003 - 2006
    Postdoctoral Researcher / Project Leader
    University of Leuven
  • 2002 - 2003
    Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
    Centro di Studi sul Rischio, University of Lecce
    Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • 1998 - 2002
    Doctoral Fellow
    Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)

Education

  • 2002 - 2002

    Leuven, Belgium

    Ph.D.
    University of Leuven
    • Summa cum laude

Honors and Awards

  • 2024
    JSPS KAKENHI (C): “Accounting for the Fall of Silver? Western Exchange Banking Practice, 1870–1910”
    Research grant
  • 2019
    JSPS KAKENHI (C): “An Analysis of the ‘flow-of-funds’ within the Yokohama Specie Bank, 1910–1940”
    Research grant
  • 2016
    SNSF grant (with Marc Flandreau): “The Transcription of Global Capitalism: Recording Techniques, Statistical Narratives, and the Politics of Financial Registries, 1850–2000” — declined
    Research grant, Swiss National Science Foundation (FN-SNF ref. CR11I1_162789/1)

    CHF 763,993 for preparing the digital preservation of the Capital Markets of the World collection, Graduate Institute, Geneva. Declined following the co-applicant’s move to the University of Pennsylvania.

  • 2014
    Nominated for the Mishima Kaiun Prize in the Humanities (三島海雲学術賞)
  • 2010
    Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (also 2007)
  • 2009
    ERC Starting Grant, JAPANGREATDEPRESSION (€549,441)
    Research grant
  • 2007
    FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Research grant
  • 2007
    Biennial Prize of the European Association for Banking and Financial History and Financial History Review for young researchers
  • 2005
    World Society Foundation Award (with S. Magnolo and G. Verschraegen)

Languages

Dutch : Native
Japanese : Excellent (spoken and written); classical Japanese (bungo)
English : Excellent
French : Excellent spoken, very good written
German : Very good spoken
Italian : Very good spoken
Chinese : Good reading (modern); excellent reading (classical)
Latin : Reading knowledge
Classical Greek : Reading knowledge