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Frederick Dickinson

b. 1961

American historian

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About Frederick Dickinson

Born 1961. Frederick Dickinson is an American historian.

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.

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Yale University, Kyoto University, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania
Employers
University of Pennsylvania
Also known as
Frederick R. Dickinson

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Frederick Dickinson?

American historian

When was Frederick Dickinson born?

Frederick Dickinson was born on 13 July 1961 in Tokyo.

What is Frederick Dickinson's occupation?

Frederick Dickinson is a historian.

What nationality is Frederick Dickinson?

Frederick Dickinson is American.

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· Wikipedia: Frederick Dickinson

· Wikidata: Q15429350

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