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University of Hawai'i

photo of John J. Stephan JOHN J. STEPHAN
Professor of History, Emeritus
e-mail: stephan@hawaii.edu

        Photo taken by Michael Allen.

 

Current Projects
Working Title: Call of Ancestry
    Focuses on Japanese Americans in Imperial Japan, 1895-1945
Working Title: Northeast Asia: An International History
    International history of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Siberia from the 19th century to the present

Educational Background
PhD University of London, Japanese History, 1969
MA Harvard University, East Asian Studies, 1964
BA Harvard University, Far Eastern History, 1963

Professional Experience
Professor of History, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1970 - 2001. Emeritus, 2001-
Sanwa Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 1989
Fellow, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1987
Visiting Professor, History, Stanford University, 1986
Senior Associate Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford, 1977
Japan Foundation Fellow, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido, 1977

Expertise
Russian and Japanese modern history


Selected Publications
The Russian Far East: A History.  (Stanford University Press, 1994) xxiii, 481 p.
          Cover of The Russian Far East

Hawaii Under the Rising Sun.   (University of Hawaii Press, 1984) xii, 228 p.

The Russian Fascists: Tragedy and Farce in Exile, 1925-1945.   (Harper & Row, 1978)
xii, 450 p.
          Book Cover - The Russian Fascists

The Kuril Islands: Russo-Japanese Frontier in the Pacific.   (Oxford University Press, 1974) xiii, 279 p.

Sakhalin: A History.  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) xiv, 240 p.

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