Overview
Background
Dr Morris Low’s research interests include the history of Japanese science and technology, history of Australia-Japan relations, Japanese visual culture, and issues relating to identity.
His current research projects include: the history of nuclear power in Japan; and the history of Japan’s participation in international expositions and Olympic Games.
He is Editor of the East Asia Series of research monographs published by Routledge for the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).
Availability
- Associate Professor Morris Low is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, Griffith University
- Bachelor (Honours) of Science (Advanced), Griffith University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Works
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2010
Book Chapter
Physicists as policymakers in postwar Japan: The rise of joint-use university research institutes
Low, Morris (2010). Physicists as policymakers in postwar Japan: The rise of joint-use university research institutes. Physics and politics. Research and research support in twentieth century Germany in international perspective. (pp. 227-250) edited by Trischler, H. and Walker, M.. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.
2009
Journal Article
The history of Japanese science: Recent developments
Low, Morris (2009). The history of Japanese science: Recent developments. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, 3 (4), 519-524. doi: 10.1007/s12280-009-9111-8
2009
Journal Article
Book Review: Alexis Dudden. Troubled Apologies among Japan, Korea, and the United States, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008
Low, Morris (2009). Book Review: Alexis Dudden. Troubled Apologies among Japan, Korea, and the United States, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. Japanese Studies, 29 (3), 457-459.
2009
Journal Article
Book Reviews: MITSUYO WADA-MARCIANO. Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. MICHAEL BASKETT. The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i
Low, Morris (2009). Book Reviews: MITSUYO WADA-MARCIANO. Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2008. MICHAEL BASKETT. The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. Asian Studies Review, 33 (3), 391-394.
2009
Journal Article
Nōberu shō o unda Sakata Shōichi to sono jidai [The Nobel Prize, Shōichi Sakata and his times]
Low, Morris (2009). Nōberu shō o unda Sakata Shōichi to sono jidai [The Nobel Prize, Shōichi Sakata and his times]. Kagaku [Science], 79 (7), 391-395.
2009
Journal Article
In Memoriam: Miriam R. Silverberg (1951-2008)
Low, Morris (2009). In Memoriam: Miriam R. Silverberg (1951-2008). Japanese Studies, 29 (1), 145-146. doi: 10.1080/10371390902897987
2009
Journal Article
The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan
Low, Morris (2009). The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Asian Studies Review, 33 (3), 391-395.
2009
Journal Article
Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States
Low, Morris (2009). Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States. Japanese Studies, 29 (3), 457-459.
2009
Book Chapter
Technological culture
Low, Morris (2009). Technological culture. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. (pp. 130-146) edited by Sugimoto, Yoshio. Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CCOL9780521880473.008
2008
Journal Article
Wartime images, identity and the struggle for Japan's past: Review of Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media by David C. Earhart
Low, M. (2008). Wartime images, identity and the struggle for Japan's past: Review of Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media by David C. Earhart. Japanese Studies, 28 (3), 395-398. doi: 10.1080/10371390802446927
2008
Journal Article
Introduction
Low, Morris (2008). Introduction. Historia Scientiarum, 18 (2), 59-61.
2008
Edited Outputs
Historia Scientiarum
Historia Scientiarum. (2008). 18 (2)
2008
Journal Article
Science, Protestant Christianity and Darwinism in Meiji Japan
Low, Morris (2008). Science, Protestant Christianity and Darwinism in Meiji Japan. Historia Scientiarum, 18 (2), 76-87.
2008
Journal Article
Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan
Low, Morris (2008). Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan. Japanese Studies, 28 (3)
2008
Journal Article
Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past
Low, Morris (2008). Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past. Japanese Studies, 28 (3)
2007
Other Outputs
Technology, Transport and Communications
Low, M. (2007). Technology, Transport and Communications.
2007
Other Outputs
Science and Technology Parks
Low, M. (2007). Science and Technology Parks.
2007
Conference Publication
Shôichi Sakata: His life, the Sakata model and his achievements
Low, Morris (2007). Shôichi Sakata: His life, the Sakata model and his achievements. 2006 International Symposium: The Jubilee of the Sakata Model (pn?50), , , November 25, 2006-November 26, 2006. Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics.
2007
Journal Article
Shoichi Sakata: His life, the Sakata model and his achievements
Low, Morris (2007). Shoichi Sakata: His life, the Sakata model and his achievements. Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 167 (167), 1-8. doi: 10.1143/PTPS.167.1
2006
Journal Article
Accelerators and politics in postwar Japan
Low, M. (2006). Accelerators and politics in postwar Japan. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 36 (2), 275-295. doi: 10.1525/hsps.2006.36.2.275
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Morris Low is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The South Sumatra-Singapore Cross-Border Trade and Political Networks, 1945-1950
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Patrick Jory
Completed supervision
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Under the Master's Eye: Agricultural Improvement on the Virginia Plantation, 1750-1820
Principal Advisor
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
'Chinese Inscriptions': Australian-Born Chinese Lives
Principal Advisor
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2005
Doctor Philosophy
THE BRISBANE OVERSEAS CHINESE COMMUNITY 1860S TO 1970S: ENIGMA OR CONFORMITY
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Yuriko Nagata
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Doctor Philosophy
DEPTH IN THE FLOATING WORLD: WESTERN REALISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRADITIONAL SPACE IN LATE UKIYO-E LANDSCAPE PRINTS
Principal Advisor
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Japanese co-workers' view of their communication with EPA foreign nurse trainees
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto
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2017
Doctor Philosophy
Girls Reading/Writing/Re-Writing Male Homoeroticism in Japan: Intertextual Transformations in Shojo and Boys' Love (BL) Manga
Associate Advisor
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2015
Doctor Philosophy
Reconsidering Professionalism: Women, Space and Art in England, 1880-1914
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Geoff Ginn
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Conducting English Classes in English in Japan: The Roles of Japanese Teachers and Native English-speaking Teachers in the New National Curriculum in Upper Secondary Schools
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Kayoko Hashimoto
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