Paul Dunscomb, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History and Geography, University of Alaska Anchorage

Paul Dunscomb is assistant professor of East Asian History at the University of Alaska Anchorage, and Deputy Director of UAA’s Regional Center of the Asian Studies Development Program. He has graduate degrees from the State University of New York at Albany and the University of Kansas. Mr. Dunscomb is a specialist in modern Japanese history focusing on the domestic political aspects of the Japanese intervention and occupation of Siberia, 1918-1922. His work has appears in the Military Review and the Journal of Japanese Studies. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Mr. Dunscomb teaches East Asian Civilization, Modern China, Modern Japan as well as specialty courses in the evolution of the Samurai and the history of the Chinese Communist Party.

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