Joyce Lebra
Joyce Lebra (December 21, 1925 – October 10, 2021[1]), also known as Joyce Chapman Lebra, was an American historian of Japan and India.
Biography
Lebra spent her childhood in Honolulu and received her B.A. and M.A. in Asian studies from the University of Minnesota. She received a Ph.D. in Japanese history from Harvard/Radcliffe, and was the first woman Ph.D. in Japanese history in the U.S.
She lived in Japan a total of ten years and three and a half in
She led three research teams to Asia to research women’s roles in the work force, each of which resulted in a book (1977, 1980 and 1984). She has written several other books including works on the Indian National Army and Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, and has written chapters in three books and some fifty articles in scholarly journals.
She has received many awards, including an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota in 1996, two years on a
Selected works
- Historical novels
- Durga’s Sword (1995)
- Sugar And Smoke (2005, writing as Napua Chapman)
- Scent of Sake (2009)
- Non-fiction
- Jungle Alliance; Japan And The Indian National Army (1971)
- Okuma Shigenobu; Statesman Of Meiji Japan (1973)
- Japanese-trained Armies In Southeast Asia (1977)
- Women In Changing Japan (1977)
- Chinese Women In Southeast Asia (1980)
- Women And Work In India (1984)
- The Rani Of Jhansi; A Study In Female Heroism In India (1986)
- Shaping Hawai’i; The Voices Of Women (1999)
- Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere (1975, editor)
Honours
References
- ^ Joyce Lebra, first female University of Colorado Boulder history professor, dies at 95
- ^ "令和3年春の外国人叙勲 受章者名簿" (PDF). Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved April 29, 2021.
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