Masato Hasegawa

Masato Hasegawa is Assistant Professor of History at National Taiwan University and concurrently serves as a fellow at Einstein Center Chronoi in Berlin. He holds a PhD in History from Yale University and previously taught at the University of Oregon, New York University, and Columbia University. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MPIWG. He specializes in the history of technology and the environment in early modern East Asia. His current research focuses on the intersections of bureaucratic knowledge, war mobilization, and the temporality of planning in the Sino-Korean borderland of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.