Akira Iriye
Department of History Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-5054; 617-496-3425 (fax) Email: [email protected]
EDUCATION Seikei High School, Tokyo, graduating in 1953 Haverford College, B.A., 1957 (major: English history; senior thesis: “The Anglican Clergy in Eighteenth- Century England”) Harvard University, Ph.D., 1961 (major: U.S. and East Asian history; dissertation: “American Diplomacy and Sino-Japanese Relations, 1926-1931”)
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Chicago, 1984-1989 Charles Warren Professor of American History, Harvard University, 1991-present Professor of American Civilization, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1986-1987 Burns Distinguished Professor, University of Hawaii, 1989 Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 1992 Visiting Professor of History, Waseda University, Tokyo, summer term, 1997-present
HONORS Phi Beta Kappa (Junior year), Haverford College, 1956 Woodrow Wilson fellowship, 1957-1958 Yoshino Sakuzô Prize for “best essay on public affairs,” Japan, 1970 Guggenheim fellowship, 1974-1975 President, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1978 Yoshida Shigeru Prize for “best book in public history,” Japan, 1979 Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1982 ACLS fellowship, 1975-1986 Honorary doctor of letters, Wittenberg University, 1988 President, American Historical Association, 1988 Honorary doctor of letters, Kalamazoo College, 2001
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS in ENGLISH only) After Imperialism: The Search for a New Order in the Far East, 1921-1931 (Harvard University Press, 1965) Across the Pacific: An Inner History of American-East Asian Relations (Harcourt, Brace, 1967) Pacific Estrangement: American and Japanese Expansion, 1897-1911 (Harvard University Press, 1972) The Cold War in Asia (Prentice-Hall, 1974) From Nationalism to Internationalism: American Foreign Policy to 1914 (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977) Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941-1945 (Harvard University Press, 1981) The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific (Longman, 1987) China and Japan in the Global Conext (Harvard University Press, 1992) The Globalizing of America: United States Foreign Relations, 1913-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 1993) Cultural Internationalism and World Order (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) Japan and the Wider World (Longman, 1997) Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (Bedford, 1999) Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World (University of California Press, forthcoming)