Curriculum Vitae: Shohei Saito
Affiliation: Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(Host Institution: Russian and Asian Studies, Graduate School of East and Southeast European
Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as Visiting Scholar)
Education
1. March 2015
PhD, Hokkaido University
Dissertation Title: “Eurasianism and Russian Emigration in the 1930s—The Case of N. S.
Trubetzkoy” (in Japanese).
2. March 2010
David Wolff (Chair), Tetuo Mochizuki, Ikuo Onish, Takeo Kuryuzawa
MA, Hokkaido University
Master’s thesis: “N. S. Trubetzkoy's Eurasianism (1920-1938): His Challenge to the Soviet State and
Social Darwinism.”
3. March 2008
BA, Keio University
Thesis: “Eurasianist N. S. Trubetzkoy’s view of Soviet Union 1920-1927: The Comparative
Research with Changing Landmarks N. V. Ustrialov.”
Scholarships and Institutional Visits
1. Research Grant, The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation, 2014-2015
2. Moscow State University, Faculty of Philosophy (July 2012-October 2012, Exchange Program of
Hokkaido University and JSPS Research Program)
3. Grant-Aid for JSPS Fellows 2012-2014
4. Masaryk University, Czech Republic, Faculty of History (October 2011-March 2012, Czech
Government Scholarship)
5. Vienna University, Faculty of Slavic Studies (August 2011-September 2011, GCOE Border
Studies Program, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University)
6. Moscow State University, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, January 2009-July
2009 (Exchange Program of Hokkaido University)
7.
Clark Scholarship (2008), Hokkaido University
8.
Keio University Scholarship (2006)
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Employment
1. Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2015-2017
2. Research Fellow of The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2012-2014
3. Tutor for the workshop “Preparing Future Faculty: An Introduction to Teaching and Writing for
Graduate Students, by lectures from the University of California, Berkeley” (Hokkaido University),
2011, 2013
4. Teaching Assistant (Graduate school of Letters, Hokkaido University), 2010
5. Research Assistant (Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University), 2010
Teaching
1. Lecture, Russian History, titled “Interpretation of Mutual Images During the Rus
so-Japanese War: From the View Point of the Receptions of Social Darwinism in
Russia and Japan,” Hokkaido University Graduate School of Letters, 2012 (in Engli
sh)
2. Lecture, “Linguist N. S. Trubetzkoy in the 1930s: Eurasiansm, Racism, and Scie
nce,” Ph. D Seminar at Masaryk University, Brno, 11 November 2011 (in English).
Publication
In English
1. “The Historical Impact of Eurasianism: N. S. Trubetzkoy’s Article “On Racism” and its Reception
in the Prager Presse,” in Uyama Tomohiko, ed., Thirty Years of Crisis: Empire, Violence, and
Ideology in Eurasia from the First to the Second World War (Sapporo: Slavic-Eurasian Research
Center, Hokkaido University, forthcoming in 2015)
In Russian
1. Евразийская альтернатива: Н.С. Трубецкой и интеллектуальная оппозиция Советскому
Союзу и нацистской Германии // Форум новейшей восточноевропейской истории и культуры.
2012. №.1. C.181-190. (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Zentralinstitut für Mittel- und
Osteuropastudien)
In Japanese
1. “Dialogs between Prague and Harbin- Reception of Eurasianism in the Far East and its Two
Variants, ” in Kazuomi SAKAI ed., Regionalism and Transnationalism from Historical Perspective
(Tokyo:Yoshida Publisher, forthcoming in 2015)
2. “Eurasianism and the Problem of the ‘Origins of Nations’: N.S. Trubetzkoy’s Ideas in the Late
1930 and their Reception,” Japanese Russian Historical Review, 2013.
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3. “Linguist N. S. Trubetzkoy’s Eurasianism and Interdisciplinality: Anti-Communism,
Anti-Fascism, and Anti-Social Darwinism,” Agora, 2012.
4. “Eurasianism as an Alternative: Linguist N.S.Trubetzkoy’s Intellectual Reaction to the Soviet
Union and Nazi Germany, ” Japanese Slavic Review, 2011.
5. “Eurasianist N. S. Trubetzkoy’s View of Soviet Union 1920-1927: The Comparative Research
with Changing Landmarks N. V. Ustrialov,” Political Studies (The faculty of Law in Keio
University), 2008.
Conference Presentations
In English
1. “N.S.Trubetzkoy Caught into Two Racial Theories: His Article "On Racism"(1935) and its
Reception in the Czechoslovakia,” Slavic-Eurasian Research Center International Symposium:
Thirty Years of Crisis: Empire, Violence, and Ideology in Eurasia from the First to the Second
World War, Sapporo, 10-11 July 2014.
2. “Eurasianism as Alternative to Russia: Linguist Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy's Ideological
Reaction to the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany,” Washington D.C.,
The 43rd Annual Convention
of the ASEEES(Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies), 17-20 November
2011(Paper Giver).
3. “Eurasianism Past and Present: Views from the East,” The Third East Asian Conference of
Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Beijing, 27-28 August 2011 (Paper Giver and Organizer of the Panel).
In Japanese
1. “Pre-revolutionary Trubetzkoy 1905-1913 and Eurasianism Budding” Society of Plato and Russia,
Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University, 5-6 March 2015.
2. “Nazism and Émigré Intellectuals” International Symposium: People’s Movement in the Age of
Globalization:
Comparative
Studies
from
a
Transdisciplinary
Approach
(Center
for
Transdisciplinary Research, Niigata University), 11-12 January 2014 (Paper Giver, Organizer of the
Panel, and Chair).
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3. “Communication between Prague and Harbin: Russian Émigrés’ Eurasianism and Manchukuo,”
Japanese Society of the History of Social Thought, Kwansei Gakuin University, 26-27 October 2013.
4. “Eurasianism as Émigrés’ Ideas: N.S.Trubetzkoy’s International Way of Thinking in the Early
1930s”, Society of Plato and Russia, Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University, 11-12 September
2013.
5. “Eurasianism in 1920s-1930s: Racism, Academics, and Pseudo-Science”, Society for the History
of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 29 June 2010.
6. “The Linguist N.S.Trubetzkoy’s Eurasianism1920-1937: His Challenge to Soviet Union and
Social Darwinism”, Society for the Central Eurasian Studies, Slavic Research Center Hokkaido
University, 9 January 2010.
7. “The Linguist N.S.Trubetzkoy’s Eurasianism1920-1938: His Challenge to Darwinian
Evolutionism and Soviet Union,” Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History, Hosei
University, 10 October 2009.
Translation
1. Theodore R. Week, “A Tale of Two Cities: Writing about Vilnius in Sapporo, ” Newsletter of
SRC, 2013 (into Japanese)
Certificate
1. Certificate, GCOE “Border Studies” Program (Slavic Research Center), 2013
2. Certificate for Tutor, “Preparing Future Faculty: An Introduction to Teaching and Writing for
Graduate Students, by lectures from the University of California, Berkeley”(Hokkaido University),
2011, 2013
3. Certificate for Participant, “Preparing Future Faculty: An Introduction to Teaching and Writing
for Graduate Students, by lectures from the University of California, Berkeley”(Hokkaido
University), 2010
4. Certificate for Teacher (Junior High School and High School, Sociology, Geography and History)
2008
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