Lee Pennington, Assistant Professor

Japanese and Korean History; East Asian History

Email: penningt@usna.edu
Phone: 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.