Lee Pennington, Assistant Professor
Japanese and Korean History; East Asian History
The United States Naval Academy
572 Holloway Road, Annapolis, MD 21402
(410) 293-6279
Education:
- Ph.D. - Columbia University
- M.A. - George Washington University
- B.A. - Davidson College
Publications:
Casualties of History: Japanese Disabled Veterans of the Second World War(manuscript in preparation)
Katō Yoko, “What Caused the Russo-Japanese War—-Korea or Manchuria?” Social Science Japan Journal 10:1 (June 2007): 95-103. (translation)
Recent Research Presentations:
“Mars Needs Women: Recruiting Wives for Disabled Veterans in Wartime Japan" (presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2008).
“Red, White, and Bruised: Japanese Disabled Veterans of the Second World War” (presented at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California at Berkeley, February 2008).
"From Warfare to Welfare: Japanese Disabled Veterans of the Second World War" (presented at Brandeis University, March 2006).
"The Pain of It: Japanese Battle Casualties in Wartime Popular Culture" (presented at A Joint Workshop on Affect, Emotion, and Public Life in Modern China and Japan, Fairbank and Reischauer Centers, Harvard University, May 2005).
"Anxious Visions: Looking at Postwar Japanese History" (presented at The Japan Society, New York City, April, 2005).
"Protecting the Wounded: Japanese Disabled Veterans on the Home Front, 1937-1945" (presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2005).
Research Interests:
Social and cultural history of wartime and occupied Japan; disability history, visual culture and propaganda; history of medicine and the body; history of modern Korea.
Professional Affiliations:
American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, Disability History Association.
