Masako Hattori | Fung Public Seminar Series: Normalizing the Anomaly: The U.S. Empire and Historical Amnesia in Post-World War II Japan

Masako Hattori

Fung Global Fellow

PIIRS, Princeton University

Masako Hattori teaches U.S. political and diplomatic history at the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include war and society, imperialism and nationalism, and social policy, as well as the U.S. in the Asia-Pacific. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and is the author of “The Age of Youth: American Society and the Two World Wars.” During her fellowship year, she will work on her second book project, which explores the relationship between imperialism, tourism and public memory in twentieth-century Japan.