Daniel Said Monteiro

Daniel Said Monteiro is Visiting Assistant Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is a cultural historian of the early modern world and East Asia, with a focus on transnational flows of knowledge in Tokugawa Japan. In his research, he explores how discourses on belief, rationality, civilization, and culture are formed in a range of historical contexts. His combined visual and textual strategies challenge preconceived dichotomies of science vs. religion, East vs. West, and premodern vs. modern mindsets. In his current book project, he explores the scholarly world of seventeenth-century Nagasaki, as this strategic port city connected the Japanese archipelago to the Eurasian continent and became a nexus for circulating cross-border knowledge under shogunal surveillance.