Alison J Darby is a Visiting Fellow and PhD graduate in Pacific and Asian History. She specializes in the history of Japanese empire, history of medicine, gender studies and disability studies. Her dissertation titled, Patriotic Marriage: Eugenics, colonial intimacy and the politics of the marital family in the Japanese empire, 1931–1945, was awarded the joint winner of the 2023 John Legge Prize for Best Thesis in Asian Studies. Her most recent publication “Managing Marriage: Advice Columns and Interethnic Intimacy in Colonial Taiwan” was published in Asian Studies Review in 2023. From 2019 to 2023 she was the Postgraduate Representative on the Japan Institute Executive Committee. She is currently the Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Monash University, where she is preparing her dissertation for publication as a book manuscript.