Paula R. Curtis

Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan based at UCLA. Her research focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their socioeconomic relationships with elite institutions. She also works on documentary forgery production and material culture in Japan’s late medieval period as well as digital humanities for East Asian Studies. She is presently Operations Leader for Japan Past & Present (JPP), a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders.