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Professor: Modern Japan;
Military History; War and Society
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Atrium 206 - 973/720-2243
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| Education |
| Ph.D. Princeton University, 1987. |
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| Selected Bibliography |
| “A lost war in living memory: Japan’s
Second World War.” With Haruko Taya Cook. European Review
11.4 (October 2003): 573-593. |
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| "Tokyo, December 8, 1941," in Robert
Cowley, editor, No End Save Victory. Perspectives on World War
II (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001): 131-143. |
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| “Heishi to kokka, heishi to shakai: Yôbei
sekai e Nihon no Sannyû,” ["Soldiers and the State,
Soldiers and Society: Japan Joins the Western World"], in Junji
Banno, editor, Nihon Kin-Gendaishi [A History of Modern and Contemporary
Japan], Volume 2: Shihonshugi to "Jiyûshugi" [Capitalism
and “Liberalism”] (Tokyo: Iwanami Shôten, 1993):
257-298. |
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| Japan at War. An Oral History. New York:
The New Press, 1992. With Haruko Taya Cook. New York Times
Notable Book of 1992; Military Book Club Main Selection. Paperback,
1993. Australian edition: Melbourne: HarperCollins, 1995. |
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| The Pacific War: Japan's War with Asia and the
West. Under contract with Routledge Press in the University College
London Press Warfare and History series of university-level texts. |
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| The Japanese Army, 1870-1945. Under contract
with Routledge Press, in the Routledge-Oxford University Nissan Centre
Series in Japanese Studies. |
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| "The Japanese Perspective," in Paul Addison
and Jeremy A. Crange, editors, The Burning Blue: A New History
of the Battle of Britain (London: Pimlico, 2000): 108-120. |
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| ""The China War: A Bibliographic Exploration
of the Japan-China Conflict, 1931-1945," Web Publication at Harvard
University: Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War 1931-1945 (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/sino-japanese/). |
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| Fellowships and Awards |
| Visiting Professor, Australian Defence Studies
Center, Australian Defence Force Academy and the School of History,
University College, The University of New South Wales, Canberra, A.C.T.,
Australia, 2000. |
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| Secretary of the Navy Fellow and Visiting
Professor, Department of Strategy and Policy, Naval War College, Newport,
Rhode Island, 1994-95. |
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| Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: Research Grant
for Research in Violence, Aggression, and Dominance, 1998-2000. |
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| Mellon Foreign Area Fellowship at the Library of
Congress, 1999. |
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| Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies:
Research Travel Grant for Japan, 1996. |
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| National Endowment for the Humanities: Research
Fellowship, NEH College Division, 1994-95. |
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| Nobel Research Fellow, Norwegian Nobel Institute,
Oslo, Norway, 1994. |
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| Research in Progress |
| Emperor's War, People's Wars: Inside
Japan's Second World War 1937-1945, under contract with Penguin/Putnam. |
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| Courses Offered |
| HIST101 The Foundations of Western Civilization |
| HIST102 The West and the World |
| HIST360 Traditional Japan |
| HIST361 Modern Japan |
| HIST364 Japanese History through Film and Literature |
| HIST365 The Pacific War |
| HIST366 The US and the Pacific |
| HIST369 Imagining War |
| HIST417 War and Society |
| HIST460 Seminar in East Asian History |
| HIST537 Seminar on The Twentieth Century |
| HIST538 Seminar on Empires: Selected Topics |
| HIST539 Seminar on War and Revolution: Selected
Topics |
| HIST660 Seminar in Asian History And Culture: Selected
Topics |
| HIST661 Seminar in Japanese History and Culture |
| HIST683 Military History |
