Japanese 
Shunsuke Kosaka

Profile

Department
Humanities and Social Sciences, Social Studies
Position
Lecturer
Academic Background
2010-2013, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Lettters (Doctoral course)
2008-2010, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Lettters (Master's course)
2004-2008, Tohoku University, Faculty of Arts and Letters
Degree
Ph.D, Tohoku University
M.A., Tohoku University
Research Career
2020-2022, Nagoya University, Institute for Advanced Research
2018-2018, University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College
2017-2020, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
2017-2018, University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics
2014-2017, Tohoku University, Graduate School of Arts and Letters
2013-2014, Tohoku University, Faculty of Arts and Letters
SDGs Related to Research
SDGs 4 QUALITY EDUCATION SDGs 9 INDUSTRO, INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SDGs 10 REDUCED INEQUALITIES

Research

Research Field
Classics, Late Antiquity
Keywords: the Roman Empire, the Later Roman Empire, Late Antiquity
Academic Paper
An Overview of Sunspot Observations in 1727–1748
The Astrophysical Journal, The American Astronomical Society, Vol. 941, 2022
Reanalyses of the sunspot observations of Fogelius and Siverus: two ‘long-term’ observers during the Maunder minimum
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 506, No. 1, pp. 650-658, 2021
The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2017
Historical Auroras in the 990s: Evidence of Great Magnetic Storms
SOLAR PHYSICS, Vol. 292, No. 1, pp. 1-14, 2017
The Murder of George of Cappadocia and the Violent Pagan Image in Ammianus Marcellinus
Scrinium, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 64-77, 2015