M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. is Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History and Provost's Fellow at Boston College. He has previously taught at Sophia University in Tokyo, Georgetown University, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Oxford, where is an Associate Fellow of Campion Hall. He has also served as Member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. His interests and publications focus on the history of Christianity in Japan and the global histories of East Asian engagement with Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Brill monograph series, "Studies in the History of Christianity in East Asia".