May 2006
PhD, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

• Dissertation Title: "A Strange Isolation: The Japanese, The Dutch, and the Asian Economy in the Seventeenth Century."
  
• Comprehensive Exams: Pre-modern Japanese History, Modern Japanese history, Korean History.

December 2005
-2010MA, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

May 1996
BA in History and Psychology

• Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

Summer 2008-Present
Assistant Professor of Asian History

• "Foundations of East Asian Civilization"
  
• "Special Topics in European History: East-West Encounters"
  
• "History of modern Japan"

Fall 2006-Summer 2008
Assistant Professor of Asian History

• "World History since 1500"
  
• "East Asian History to 1800"
  
• "East Asian History since 1800"
  
• "East-West Encounters"
  
• "History of Japan"
  
• "United States History to 1877" (Winterim)

Summer 2007

Recruitment and Retention Grant, UW-Stevens Point

• Research at Leiden University and the Dutch National Archives

2006-07

Japan Foundation Library Development Grant (with Kathy Davis)
2004-05

University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship
2003-04

Visiting Researcher: Leiden University, The Netherlands

• Professor Willem Boot, advisor

2004-05

Books
Laver, Michael, Japan’s Economy by Proxy in the Seventeenth Century: China, The Netherlands, and the Bakufu
(New York: Cambria Press, March 2008).

Laver, Michael, Closed Country: Foreign Relations in the early Tokugawa Period and the Politics of "Isolation"
(New York: Cambria Press, March 2008).

Articles
"Beautiful Island: Dutch Taiwan as a strategic Link between Japan and Asia in the Seventeenth Century," Japan’s Economy by Proxy in the Seventeenth Century: China, The Netherlands, and the Bakufu
(New York: Cambria Press, March 2008).

Reviews
The Traveler's World: Europe to the Pacific by Harry Liebersohn.
Review for The Canadian Journal of History 42:3 (Winter, 2007).

Visible Cities: Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the coming of the Americans.
Review for Itinerario (Winter, 2008).

The China Question: Great Power Rivalry and the British isolation, 1894-1905.
Review for The Canadian Journal of History (forthcoming).

Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan.
Review for Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming).

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs(October 2008):
"Beautiful Island: Dutch Taiwan as a Strategic Link between Japan and Asia in the Seventeenth Century."

Wisconsin Women’s Studies Conference (April 2007):
"Seikoku: The Expulsion of Japanese Women and their "Mixed Blood Children" in the Seventeenth Century."

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (October, 2007):
"The Shogun's Menagerie: The VOC and Gift-giving in Early Modern Japan."

UWSP Humanities Forum (November, 2006);
"Beautiful Island: Dutch Taiwan as a Strategic Link between Japan and Asia in the 17th Century."