Thomas Havens
American historian (born 1939)
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Thomas Robert Hamilton Havens (born November 21, 1939) is an American Japanologist.
Havens is from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Princeton University in 1961 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, followed by a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962.[1] He remained at Berkeley to earn a doctorate in history in 1965, and began his teaching career at University of Toronto before moving to Connecticut College in 1966.[2] While on the Connecticut College faculty, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 1976.[3] Havens joined the University of Illinois faculty in 1990, where he taught for two years before accepting a teaching position at Berkeley. Havens served as a faculty member for his alma mater for six years, then in 1999, moved to Northeastern University.[2]
He is married to Karen Thornber, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in Literature and professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University.
Selected publications
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1970). Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691030807.[4]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1974). Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1879-1940. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691031019.[5]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1978). Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780819154958.[6]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1982). Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan, Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts, 1955-1980. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691053639.[7]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1987). Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan 1965-1975. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691008110.[8]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (1994). Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu Enterprises in Twentieth-Century Japan. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9781684173068.[9]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (2006). Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824830113.[10]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (2010). Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824834777.[11]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (2015). Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824841010.[12]
- Havens, Thomas R. H. (2020). Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824882891.[13]