Biography
I study religious and intellectual history in transnational perspective. Here at Wisconsin, my research centers on modern France and its empire, with particular attention to colonial ventures in East and Southeast Asia. My dissertation will examine the place of Catholic missionaries and other religious actors in French Indochina, especially under Vietnam’s shared Japanese-Vichyist occupation during the Second World War. Alongside a B.A. in History and French from Gettysburg College, I have also received support from the University of British Columbia through Fulbright Canada’s Globalink research exchange program. My work can be found in Monumenta Nipponica, Christianity & Literature, and other publications.
Education
B.A., Gettysburg College, 2022
Field
- European History
- Southeast Asian History
Selected Publications
- Christopher T. Lough, “Overcoming Modernity, Exonerating Empire: Yoshimitsu Yoshihiko and the Ironies of Early Shōwa Catholicism,” Monumenta Nipponica 79, no. 1 (2024): 33-84.
- Christopher T. Lough, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Translating Catholicism in Early Modern Japan.” ASIANetwork Exchange 28, no. 2 (2023).
- Christopher T. Lough, “Ruskin in the Mountains: Sketches of a Sacramental Worldview,” Christianity & Literature 72, no. 1 (2023): 16-33.