Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo Visiting Professor, The Open University of Japan. Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies E-mail: zushima2010@gmail.com Website: http://tsukasa-mizushima.com/tm/index_en.html Dr. Mizushima has been working on the socio-economic history of India from the late 18th century till today. Transformation of rural society, social reproduction system or mirasi system, caste system, migration, agricultural development and demographic change are some of the subjects that have been investigated in the past four decades or so. A number of field studies in Tamil villages/Nilgiri and Malayan plantations/Malay villages/Petaling Jaya as well as archival studies in Madras, Delhi, London, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore have been conducted.   More recently he has been leading groups working on GIS-based global history from Asian perspectives. A large number of village-level sources from the 18th century onwards have been digitized and socio-economic changes of Tamilnadu in the past 250 years are analyzed to produce new perspectives of Asian historical development. Education 1992 Ph. D., The University of Tokyo 1976 - 1979 M.A. in History, The University of Tokyo 1971 - 1976 B. A. in History, The University of Tokyo Occupational Experience 2019 - Present Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 2018 - Present Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo 2018 - Present Visiting Professor, The Open University of Japan 1997 - 2018 Professor, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo 1995 - 1997 Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 1988 - 1995 Associate Professor, ILCAA, Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies 1979 - 1988 Research Fellow, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Past Research Activities In addition to a number of Japanese and English publications, Dr. Mizushima had activitely organized a number of research projects, including those on Indian diasporas, agrarian history of Tamil villages, ecological change, GIS, and global history. Project Director of "Historical Maps of Asia" sponsored by JSPS (April 2017 - March 2018) Project Leader of “Comparative Studies of Two Iron Cities in Asia: Yawata in Japan and Jamshedhpur in India” sponsored by JSPS (April 2016 - March 2017) Project Leader of “Studies of Urban Formation in India: Madras, Coimbatore, and Kanchipuram” sponsored by JSPS (Arpil 2015 - March 2018) President of the Japanese Association of South Asian Studies (JASAS) (October 2016 - Present) Board of Councillors of the Historical Society of Japan (Shigakukai) (2016 - Present) Project Leader of "GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspectives, Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research" sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promption of Science (JSPS) (April 2015 - March 2017) Director of "Integrated Area Studies on South Asia (INDAS South Asia) at The University of Tokyo (TINDAS) " sponsored by the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) (April 2015 - March 2017) The Secretary General of the Asian Network for GIS-based Historical Studies (ANGIS) (October 2012 - Present) Director of "the Center for the Study of Contemporary India at The University of Tokyo (TINDAS) from April 2010 to March 2015" sponsored by the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) (April 2010 - March 2015) Project Leader of "Long-term Trends of Indian Villages" sponsored by JSPS（Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)）(April 2009 - March 2014) President of the Historical Society of Japan (Shigakukai) (2009 - May 2010) Recent English Publications (the full list of publication is available in the pull-down menu of “Publication List”) “Did India experience Rapid Population Growth in the Pre-Census Period? – A Village-level Study from South India –,” Journal of the Japanese Association of South Asian Studies, Vol. 6, 2013, pp.13-46. • “Transformation of South Indian Local Society in the Late Pre-colonial Period,” Journal of Asian Network for GIS-based Historical Studies, Vol. 1, 2013, pp.12-16 • “Development of Market Economy; Asian and European Market Relation; Political and Economic Subordination,” “Mirasidars and Colonial Land Systems,” “Landholders in the Nineteenth century,” A Concise History of South India: Issues and Interpretations, Noboru Karashima (ed.), Oxford University Press, OUP India, 2014, pp. 260-265, 266-273, 278-281. •