Originally from Brazil and trained in the United States, France, and Japan, Daniel Said Monteiro is a cultural historian of East Asia with a focus on transnational flows of knowledge in early modern Japan. In his research and teaching, he explores how discourses on belief, rationality, civilization, and culture are formed in a range of historical contexts. His combined visual and textual strategies challenge preconceived dichotomies of science vs. religion, East vs. West, and premodern vs. modern mindsets. In his current book project, he explores the scholarly world of Nagasaki in Tokugawa Japan, as this strategic port city connected the archipelago to the Eurasian continent and became a nexus for circulating cross-border knowledge under shogunal surveillance. Before coming to Trinity, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University and spent four years as a Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. At Trinity, he teaches courses on Japanese civilization and cultural histories of East Asia.