Specialty: Japanese history and culture, with ongoing research in the history of science.
Trained as a historian of Japan and East Asia at Princeton (A.B. 1961) and UC Berkeley (M.A. 1962, Ph.D. 1965), I taught history at the University of Toronto for one year, at Connecticut College for 25 years, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for 2 years before coming to Berkeley in 1993 as Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures, while serving concurrently as Director of the...