Prof. Dr. Sheldon Marc Garon

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsModern and Contemporary History
Keywordsaerial bombardment, Wartime Japan, World War II and society, transnational/global history, National Socialist Germany

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityPrinceton
InstitutionPrinceton University
InstituteDepartment of History

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Sebastian ConradFriedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Fachbereich Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften (WE1), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Sebastian ConradFriedrich-Meinecke-Institut (FMI), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2017

Programme(s)

2017Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Garon is well known internationally for his outstanding research in modern and contemporary Japanese history. His research was pivotal to the so-called “transwar turn”, focusing on the continuities from Imperial Japan to the New Japan after 1945. During his stay in Germany he continues writing a transnational history of “home fronts” in Japan, Germany, Britain and the United States in World War II.