Natsuko Matsumori
(Professor of History of Political Thought, Department of International Languages and Cultures, School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka)
Natsuko Matsumori completed her doctoral degree at the Complutense University of Madrid (Ph.D. in Political Science) as a fellow of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain. Since then, she has held, among other positions, the following: Assistant Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University; Invited Professor at the University of Salamanca and at Keio University; Collaborative Researcher at Kyoto University and at the National Museum of Ethnology; Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Legal Theory; and Screening Committee Member at Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Matsumori researches scholastic influence on the formation of early modern political thought. Her principal publications include The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies (Routledge, 2019), From Barbarism to Order (University of Nagoya Press, 2009, Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities), and Civilización y barbarie (Biblioteca Nueva, 2005).
Her page on researchmap is here.
AHA’s Member Spotlight article about her is here.