John Dower

Room	E51-287
Phone	617-253-4445
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Professor Dower received a B.A. in American Studies from Amherst College in 1959, and a Ph.D. in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University in 1972. Before joining the MIT faculty he taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1972-1986) and the University of California, San Diego (1986-1992). A specialist in Japanese history and U.S.-East Asian relations, he has devoted particular attention to issues of war and peace, racism, memory, and representations of self and other in popular illustrations and films.

His books include Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience (1979), War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986); collected essays under the title Japan in War and Peace (1994); and Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II (1999) which was honored with numerous prizes including the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and National Book Award.