Brian is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. He specializes in urban history and the history of Modern Japan. His dissertation, tentatively titled “City of Commuters: Work and Mobility in Tokyo, 1868-1973,” traces the emergence of commuting in one of the world’s largest cities through periods of industrialization, wartime mobilization, and postwar high economic growth. Through the writings of labor scientists, transport engineers, business leaders, government officials, journalists, and commuters, “City of Commuters” explores how the the historical transformation of the relationship between work and home generated new anxieties around fatigue, productivity, and national economic growth, and new questions about the meaning of modern urban life. Brian’s research has been supported by FLAS, the Nippon Foundation, and the Fulbright Program.