Matt Matsuda

American historian at Rutgers who wrote Pacific Worlds — a history of the Pacific Ocean region as a connected space — and The Memory of the Modern — bringing Pacific history into the mainstream of world history through an oceanic rather than continental framework.

Created Pacific history as a connected oceanic world — Pacific Worlds demonstrates that the Pacific Ocean was not simply the space between the Americas and Asia but a complex interconnected world of trade, migration, and cultural exchange — applying the Atlantic world model to the Pacific.