Julia Adeney Thomas writes about Japanese political thought, the environment, and photography.  Her book Reconfiguring Modernity won the John K. Fairbank prize from the American Historical Association and her American Historical Review essay on Japanese wartime memory, “Cataracts of Time,” won the Berkshire Conference of Women Historian’s prize.  Two new books, Japan at Nature’s Edge (with Brett Walker and Ian Miller) and Rethinking Historical Distance (with Mark Salber Phillips and Barbara Caine), are about to be published.  She is currently at work on Ever So Real: Photography’s Politics in Japan, 1940-60.