Sheldon Garon: On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan Learned from the Bombing of Germany and Britain in World War II

Sheldon Garon is Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He studies modern and contemporary Japan, with research interests in relationships between state and society, the links between culture and popular economic behavior, and locating Japan within a global or transnational history of ideas and institutions.

Professor Garon will be joining the Graduate School of East Asian Studies for 6 months as a Visiting Professor from December 2013 - April 2014.