Angus Lockyer

Lecturer in the history of Japan, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Born in Singapore in 1966, raised in UK. After earning his BA Hons in history from University of Cambridge in 1988, taught English for two years in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Got his MA in political economy from the University of Washington in 1993 and his PhD in history from Stanford University in 2000. Served as a visiting associate professor at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan from September 2007 to June 2008. Assumed his current position from 2004. His writings include a chapter of “The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850–2000” in From Corporate Playground to Family Resort: Golf as Commodity in Postwar Japan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).

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May 29, 2013