Hi, I’m Shusuke Ioku, a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Rochester, specializing in historical political economy. I employ formal theory and micro-level historical data to study statebuilding and political extremism, focusing on how state subjects resist, negotiate with, or fall under the control of ruling powers.

My current research explores how mass exit served as a constraint on feudal authority in early modern Japan, as well as how elite-supplied ideological frames, rather than economic hardship alone, drove fascist mobilization in interwar Japan.

Contact

• Email: sioku[at]ur.rochester.edu
• GitHub: shusuke-ioku