Emerita Professor Tessa Morris-Suzuki
ANU School of Culture, History and Language
ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor Emerita in the School of History, Culture and Language at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific.
Professor Morris-Suzuki researches the modern history of East Asia, with a particular focus on Japan, Korea and Far Eastern Russia (especially Sakhalin).
Her work focuses on migration, borders, ethnic minorities, cross-border history debates and grassroots social movements. She also has an interest in the role of art in history, including the work of Australian artists in Japan, and the life and work of British orientalist illustrator E. J. Detmold.
Fields of expertise
Articles
The remarkable story of Monte Punshon, the world’s oldest lesbian
At the age of 103, Monte Punshon, with her tiny frame, blindingly white hair and 19th-century diction, made…