Frederick R. Dickinson
Associate Professor of History
Frederick R. Dickinson Associate Professor of Japanese History. Born in Tokyo and raised in Kanazawa and Kyoto, Japan, he teaches courses on modern Japan, East Asian diplomacy and politics and nationalism in Asia. He received an MA (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in History from Yale University and holds an MA in International Politics from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan, 1986). He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914 - 1919 (Harvard University Asia Center, 1999) and Taisho tenno (Taisho Emperor, Minerva Press, 2009).
Currently, he is working on a study of Japanese political and cultural reconstruction following the First World War (1919-1931). He has won a number of prizes and fellowships and served as a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in the 2000 - 2001 academic year.
Courses Taught (As Schedule Allows)
For current course listings, consult the Course Directory.
- HIST 091 Modern Japanese History
- HIST 206 Greater East Asian War
- HIST 206 Imperial Asia
- HIST 395 East Asian Diplomacy
- HIST 630 Transnational Asia
