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Fabian Drixler is Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches Japanese history. He earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2008, with a dissertation titled Infanticide and Fertility in Eastern Japan: Discourse and Demography, 1660-1880. This study charts the rise and destruction of a premodern society in which couples raised only two to three children. Highlighting the role of contingency and individual agency in demographic history, it connects population patterns with changing understandings of human life, political space, and the nature of time. Drixler is particularly interested in cultural history and historical demography of Japan and around the world. His research focuses on Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, including demographic, social, and cultural history; infanticide and its ethical underpinnings; stillbirths and the state in modern Japan; Buddhist networks and internal migration; and the history of sustainability, famine, and risk management in early modern Japan. Additional interests encompass climate and Japanese and East Asian environmental history.