Frederick R. Dickinson

Frederick R. Dickinson

Frederick R. Dickinson is Professor of Japanese History at the University of Pennsylvania, Co-Director of the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies, and Deputy Director of the Penn Forum on Japan. He received an MA and PhD in History from Yale University and holds an MA in International Politics from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan). He is the author of War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914 – 1919 (Harvard, 1999), Taisho tenno (Taisho Emperor, Minerva, 2009) and World War I and the Triumph of a New Japan, 1919-1930 (Cambridge, 2013). He is currently working on a global history of modern Japan.