Dr. Kelly Maddox
East Asian Seminar
Japanese Studies
Project: "Law Without Mercy: Japanese Courts-Martial and Military Courts During the Asia-Pacific War, 1937-45"
Researcher
Room 0.18
14195 Berlin
EDUCATION
2012 – 2016: Lancaster University, PhD in History
(Passed forthwith in July 2016)
Thesis Title: “The Strong Devour the Weak”: Tracing the Genocidal Dynamics of Violence in the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945
Supervised by Professor Aristotle Kallis & Professor Aaron Moore
2011 – 2012: Lancaster University, M.A in History
(Passed with distinction in September 2012)
Thesis Title: ‘A Dead Letter: The Genocide Convention and Possibilities of Prevention’
Supervised by Professor Aristotle Kallis
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| Apr. 2018 – Jun. 2018 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Philippine Culture, Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines |
| Oct. 2017 – Mar. 2018 | Visiting Researcher, Hitotsubashi University, Japan |
| Apr. – Sept. 2014 | Scholar-in-Residence at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, USA |
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
| Apr. 2018 – Jun. 2018 | IPC Research Scholarship (Ateneo de Manila University) |
| Aug. 2016 – Mar. 2018 | Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Scholarship |
| Apr. 2014 – Oct. 2014 | Fellowship at the Library of Congress (Funded by the AHRC) |
| Dec. 2012 | Lancaster University Chancellor’s Medal |
| Dec. 2012 | Joseph Hertford Sutton Postgraduate Prize |
| Dec. 2012 | Queen’s Studentship Postgraduate Prize |
| Oct. 2011 – Mar. 2016 | ESRC 1+3 NWDTC Full M.A. and Ph.D. Studentship |
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS
(2019) “An Island of Killing and Slaughter: Anti-Guerrilla Warfare and Civilian-Targeted Violence on Panay, 1943”, Journal of Contemporary History [Online First] (Aug., 2019).
(2017) “From Liberation to Elimination: Violence and Resistance in Japan’s Southeast Asia, 1942-1945”, in Philip Dwyer & Amanda Nettlebeck (eds.) Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern World (New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 243-64
(2015) “‘Liberat[ing] Manking from such an Odious Scourge’: The Genocide Convention and the Continued Failure to Prevent or Halt Genocide in the Twenty-First Century”, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, 9(1) (2015). 48-65.