Dr. Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu serves on the faculty of Rice University’s Department of History as a Director of Graduate Studies (since 2017) and the Dunlevie Family Professor of History (since 2014). A historian of the United States’ relations with the wider world, Dr. Shimizu places particular emphasis on U.S.-East Asian relations since the mid-19th century. Her research interests, cutting across historiographical and national boundaries, include the history of U.S.-Japanese relations, comparative colonialism, the transpacific world, sports in international relations, and global governance. She is the author of several books, including Transpacific Field of Dreams: How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012); Creating People of Plenty: The United States and Japan’s Economic Alternative 1950-1960 (Kent: The Kent State University Press, 2001); and, most recently, The Political Prism of the Olympic Games: Asia Rising, with A.J. Mangan and Qing Luo. Prior to Rice, Dr. Shimizu was a Residential Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars from 2013-2014, and a Professor of History at Michigan State University from 2010-2014. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A.in History from Cornell University.