Lecturer
School of Social Sciences
University of the South Pacific
Fiji
Ryota Nishino teach courses on world history and East Asian history. USP could not be more rewarding, because he enjoy teaching and interacting with students from all walks of life and from diverse backgrounds.
His research interests are interdisciplinary but grounded in History. He have worked on South African history and a comparative history of history textbooks in Japan and South Africa. He have been working on a history of Japanese travel-writing on southern Pacific. He see it as an emergent field that crosses numerous disciplinary boundaries, amongst which History takes an important place.