Timothy S. George is a Professor of History and Chair of the University of Rhode Island Department of History. He specializes in Postwar Japanese history, Citizen-corporation-state relations in Japan from Meiji through Shōwa, local history, and environmental history.[1] A Fulbright Scholar, George's research has been reviewed in Environmental History,[2] The Journal of Asian Studies,[3] Social Science Japan Journal,[4] and the Journal of Japanese Studies.[5] He is a faculty affiliate of Harvard University's Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.[6]
George graduated Stanford University A. B. in 1977, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with his M.A. in 1984, and then attended Harvard University, where he earned his A.M. in 1993 and his Ph.D. in 1996.[7]