Raja Adal is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh with a PhD from Harvard University. His publications include Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education (Columbia University Press, 2019), “Aesthetics and the End of the Mimetic Moment: The Introduction of Art Education in Japanese and Egyptian Schools” (Comparative Studies in Society and History) and “Japan’s Bifurcated Modernity: Writing and Calligraphy in Japanese Public Schools, 1872-1943” (Theory, Culture, and Society). He has been the recipient of grants from organizations that include the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, and the Japan Foundation. He is currently working on a material history of scripts and writing technologies in the twentieth century.
