Tom Havens
Professor of History
After 25 years at Connecticut College, 2 at the University of Illinois, and 6 at the University of California, Berkeley, Tom Havens came to Northeastern in 1999 as professor and chair of the Department of History. He teaches courses on Japanese history and East Asian studies. Trained in history at Princeton and U.C. Berkeley, he has written books on modern Japanese intellectual, economic, cultural, and environmental history, as well as Japanese foreign relations, arts patronage, avant-garde movements, and long-distance running. His current research focuses on the history of botanical science and the diffusion of Japanese and East Asian plant species to the rest of the world.
National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, Stanford and Columbia Universities,
summers 1962, 1963
Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellow, University of California, Berkeley,
and Chūō University, 1963-1965
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Waseda University, 1968, Connecticut
College, 1990
Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow, Waseda University, 1968
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1972-1973
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Waseda University, 1976-1977
Japan Foundation Professional Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1980-1981, summer 2007
Social Science Research Council Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1976, 1984
American Philosophical Society Fellow, Waseda University, 1980
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, Waseda University,
1990-1991, University of Tokyo, 2001-2002
Association for Asian Studies NEAC research grant, Tokyo, summer 2009
Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, summer 2010
Books
Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought, Princeton University Press, 1970
Farm and Nation in Modern Japan: Agrarian Nationalism, 1870-1940, Princeton
University Press, 1974
Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two, W. W. Norton, 1978;
University Press of America, 1986
The Historical Encyclopedia of World War II (coauthor), Facts-On-File, 1980
Artist and Patron in Postwar Japan: Dance, Music, Theater, and the Visual Arts,
1955-1980, Princeton University Press, 1982
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Tokyo and New York: Kodansha, 1983, entries on
Dance Western-style, Nationalism, National Mobilization Law, Ninomiya Sontoku,
Nishi Amane, Nōhonshugi, Farmers’ Movement, Tachibana Kōzaburō, Japanese
Society During World War II
Fire Across the Sea: The Vietnam War and Japan, 1965-1975, Princeton University
Press, 1987
Umi no mukō no kaji: Betonamu sensō to Nihon 1965-1975 [Fire Across the Sea: The
Vietnam War and Japan 1965-1975], trans. Yoshikawa Yūichi, Chikuma Shobō, 1990
Japan Between East and West (coeditor), University Press of America, 1990
Architects of Affluence: The Tsutsumi Family and the Seibu-Saison Enterprises in
Twentieth-Century Japan, Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, 1994
Radicals and Realists in Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde and the
Rejection of Modernism, University of Hawai`i Press, 2006
Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan, University of Hawai`i Press, 2011
Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture, University of Hawai`i Press,
2015
Global Indigeneities and the Environment (coedited with Karen L. Thornber), Basel:
MDPI, 2016. ISBN 978-3-03842-240 cloth, 978-3-03842-241 e-book
http://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/223
Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World, University of Hawai`i Press, 2020
(Perspectives on the Global Past)
National Defense Foreign Language Fellow, Stanford and Columbia Universities,
summers 1962, 1963
Ford Foundation Foreign Area Fellow, University of California, Berkeley,
and Chūō University, 1963-1965
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Waseda University, 1968, Connecticut
College, 1990
Leopold Schepp Foundation Fellow, Waseda University, 1968
Senior Fulbright Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1972-1973
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, Waseda University, 1976-1977
Japan Foundation Professional Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1980-1981, summer 2007
Social Science Research Council Research Fellow, Waseda University, 1976, 1984
American Philosophical Society Fellow, Waseda University, 1980
U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Research Fellow, Waseda University,
1990-1991, University of Tokyo, 2001-2002
Association for Asian Studies NEAC research grant, Tokyo, summer 2009
Visiting Professor, Meiji University, Tokyo, summer 2010
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Education
PhD, 1965, History
University of California, Berkeley -
Contact
617.373.8178 t.havens@northeastern.edu -
Address
229 ME
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
