Saki Dockrill

Professor Saki Ruth Dockrill , née Saki Kimura (14 December 1952 – 8 August 2009) was a Japanese-British historian of modern international affairs, and Professor at King's College London.

Born in Kyoto, she obtained an LLM from Kyoto University in 1976, She then moved to be one of the first Olin Fellows at Yale University for the 1988–89 year, where she studied especially resources in the Eisenhower Presidential Library.

Dockrill returned to Britain and King's College London, as MacArthur Fellow in and lecturer from 1992, as senior lecturer from 1997, and from April 2003, as professor of Contemporary History and International Security.

Dockrill married Michael Dockrill c. 1985. She gained British citizenship in 1993. She died of cancer in 2009.