The Department of History at the University of Michigan invites applications for the Alice Freeman Palmer Professorship for a tenured Associate or Full Professor of Modern Japanese History. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of August 25, 2026. We invite applications from scholars of history of modern Japan from bakumatsu/late nineteenth century to the present. The normal teaching load for research-active faculty in LSA is four courses per academic year. Under current practice, the teaching load for research-active faculty in the History Department is two courses in the fall and two courses in winter. Areas of teaching responsibility include introductory, upper division, and graduate classes. The successful c