Theodore F. Cook
Department of History
William Paterson University
United States of America
Biography
Theodore F. Cook is Asian Studies Program Director. He earned his PhD in Japanese History from Princeton University. He has been a Secretary of the Navy Fellow and Visiting Professor of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War College, Visiting Professor at the Australian Defence Force Academy, where he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow, and Visiting Scholar at Japan's National Museum of History and the International Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. He was a recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship among other awards. He studies the comparative history of war, specializing in Japanese military institutions and the social & cultural transformation of Japan. He is co-author of Japan at War: An Oral History, a NY Times Book of the Year, and has published widely on Japanese war experience and memory in English and Japanese.
Research Interest
Japanese History
Publications
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“A lost war in living memory: Japan’s Second World War," With Haruko Taya Cook. European Review. Vol.11, No. 4 (October 2003), 573-593.
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Making ‘Soldiers’: The Army and the Japanese Man in Meiji Society and State,†in Barbara Molony and Kathleen Uno, eds., Gendering Modern Japanese History. Cambridge, Mass. & London: Harvard University Press, 2005, 259-294.
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Japan at War. An Oral History. New York: The New Press, 1992. With Haruko Taya Cook. Selected a New York TimesNotable Book of 1992; Military Book Club Main Selection. Paperback, 1993. Australian edition: Melbourne: HarperCollins, 1995. Editions in French, German, and Chinese. 2nd edition forthcoming Spring 2008.
