Blog | Sayaka Chatani

Most fruitful time

This is the end of the semester at NUS, and after a semester-long experimental journey of teaching a newly designed large lecture course,...

Re-thinking History: Singapore and Global History

Professor Kevin Blackburn invited me to give a presentation at a conference for secondary-school and junior-college teachers. Presenting...

It is true, unfortunately

We just had a week of lecture and tutorials on "women and society" in our history 101 course. We instructors were excited to teach it,...

A powerful supporter of the "nation-empire" concept

I have heard from multiple friends that my former advisor has mentioned my name and my argument in her speeches, and I was curious of...

Received a review in Choice!

I got a very generous review in Choice Reviews. Thank you Professor Ericson! I am extremely honored to find the expressions...

Small things I learned after having children.

Life is a journey full of learning opportunities. Kids. With their superior ways of enchanting and torturing us, they help us to arrive...

A place called university

My nieces and nephews started attending universities. I am teaching many first-year, first-semester students. I am now contemplating what...

A case for quick online publications of book reviews

Now I started to receive book reviews, it suddenly occurred to me that I wrote a book review for an academic journal back in December...

Received a book review!

Professor Emer O'Dwyer wrote a thoughtful review on my book in the Journal of Social History! Humbly take her criticism that I provide...

Is your analysis applicable to other cases?

I recently gave a seminar talk at the NUS East Asian Institute. I based the talk on my book (they uploaded a nice summary of what I...

What does it mean to "expose" students to historical studies?

I am teaching a large lecture class (for the second time) this semester. This is supposed to be an "exposure" class for the history...