Frederick Dickinson

Frederick Dickinson
Dickinson in March 2011
Born	Tokyo, Japan
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University (PhD) Yale University (M.A.) Kyoto University (M.A.) University of Notre Dame (B.A.)
Scientific career
Fields	History, Diplomatic history, History of Japan,
Institutions	University of Pennsylvania

Frederick R. Dickinson is a professor of Japanese history at the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Dickinson teaches courses in the University of Pennsylvania Department of History on modern Japan, East Asian diplomacy, as well as politics and nationalism in Asia. The Japanese Ministry of Education, the Fulbright Commission, and the Japan Foundation have conferred grants upon him, and he was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford University, 2000–2001) and visiting research scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto, 2011–12).

Publications

Books

• 2015 – World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919–1930. Cambridge University Press.
• 2009 - Taisho tenno. Minerva Press, Japan Kyoto.
• 2001 – War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919 . Harvard University Asia Center.

Personal

Dickinson was born in Tokyo, and raised in Kanazawa and Kyoto, all in Japan.

External links

• Frederick Dickinson profile page, University of Pennsylvania Department of History.