Robert Hellyer

Robert Hellyer

Robert Hellyer is Associate Professor of History at Wake Forest University.  His research focuses on early modern and modern Japan, especially socio-economic perspectives related to trade. His publications include Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868 (Harvard, 2009) and numerous articles emerging from his current project exploring Japan’s export of green tea to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.