Daiwa Scholars in Japanese Studies 2016

Dr Izumi Braddick

Izumi Braddick was born in Tokyo and was educated there until the age of twelve, when she moved with her family to Australia. She achieved a double first in Japanese Language/Asian History and Archaeology/Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University in 2014, and was also awarded a Graduate Diploma for her exchange year at Kyoto University. In 2015, she completed an MA in Asia-Pacific Studies (Archaeology), also at the Australian National University. Izumi began a DPhil in Archaeology at the University of Oxford in October 2016. She became interested in the Jōmon era of Japanese history as a result of one of her first-year university archaeology assignments, for which she created a replica of a Jōmon clay figurine known as a “dogū”. For her PhD thesis, she will address the theme of violence and non-violence in Jōmon Japan. She was awarded her PhD in 2022.

Her long-term career goal is to become a professor of Asian Archaeology, specialising in Japan.

Thomas Monaghan

Tom Monaghan was awarded an MA (Hons, first class) in History by the University of Edinburgh in 2012. On completing his MA he spent two years in Naoshima, Kagawa Prefecture, on the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. On returning to the UK Tom started a two-year MA in Japanese Studies with Intensive Language at SOAS, University of London. His MA dissertation focused on aspects relating to the Satsuma domain during the Meiji Restoration, Saigō Takamori and the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877. In summer 2017 he  completed his year at Tokyo University as a Postgraduate Foreign Research Student, carrying out research into this area and taking advantage of Japanese archives. Since autumn 2017 he has been pursuing a PhD at Yale, which further delves into what the Satsuma domain reveals about the nature of the Japanese polity during the upheavals of the 19th Century.

Elizabeth Wormald

Liz Wormald completed a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Birmingham City University in 2012. During her foundation degree she exhibited her photographic work in several student exhibitions and took evening classes in Japanese at the Brasshouse Language Centre, Birmingham. She completed a BA in Japanese Studies at Sheffield University in 2016, spending her year abroad at Chuo University during the 2014/2015 academic year. Liz began a two-year MA in Visual Culture at Waseda University in April 2017. Her particular interests are Japanese female photographers of the 1990s, contemporary Japanese female artists’ responses to political and cultural issues, and how their work resonates with the public. Her long-term career aim is to work in art curation and UK-Japan artistic cultural exchange.

Liz completed her MA at Waseda in March 2019 and worked as a full-time Intern at Christie’s London Japanese Art Department before taking on the position of  Cataloguing Assistant & Administrator- Asian and Prints Departments at Roseberys London in August 2019. Since early 2021, she has been working as a Junior Specialist and Sale Co-ordinator at Roseberys.

In 2022 she took over as Head of Sale, Prints and Multiples Department at Chiswick Auctioneers in London.