博士論文では日本における所謂『中国の知」（漢学・儒学・中国語学などを含める幅広い分野）と１９世紀グローバリゼーションの絡み合いを研究してきた。今回東文研訪問期間内に取り組んでいる新しい研究テーマとしては、20世紀日本の多様な『近世』」という題目の下、近代論を再検討。歴史学をはじめ、展示会・公共言論の様々な場面で近世という時代の性格・空間性・時間性がいかに考えられてきたかに重点を置く。2008年ボン大学言語学・日本文化学修士学位取得。ベルリン自由大学歴史学研究所グローバルヒストリー科研究員・博士課程に在籍。

Michael FACIUS is Research Fellow and PhD student at Friedrich Meinecke Institute of History and the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) “Episteme in Motion”, Freie Universität Berlin. In his dissertation, he examines how "Chinese knowledge" (an umbrella term for all kinds of systematic knowledge relating to China or based on Chinese texts) in 19th century Japan contributed to and was reshaped by globalization. During his stay at the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, he is preparing a post-doc project on the multiple faces of the "Early Modern" in 20th century Japan. This project aims to contribute to a reevaluation of concepts of “modernity” by interrogating the ways in which actors in various fields such as historiography, exhibitions and public discourse apprehended the characteristics, spatiality and temporality of the period and its relationship to the present.