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Joshua Batts is a postdoctoral researcher and current member ERC Horizon 2020 project "Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592–98" at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is a historian of early modern Japan, specializing in Japan's foreign encounters, mineral resources, and the relationship between the two. He obtained his PhD from Columbia University in 2017 and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo and at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His monograph, Pacific Overtures: Tokugawa Outreach to Habsburg Spain, 1600-1625, is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. From November 2024, he will lead the ERC Starting Grant project "Material Authority: Managing Mineral Abundance in Early Modern Japan."
