Tetsuo najita biography samples

American historian (–)

Tetsuo "Tets" Najita (奈地田 哲夫, Najita Tetsuo, March 30, – January 11, ) was an American historian.

Biography

A nisei,^[1] Najita was raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Grinnell College in , and was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.^[2][3] While in Grinnell, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.^[4] Najita completed a doctorate at Harvard University in ^[5]

Upon finishing his studies, Najita began teaching at Carleton College.^[6] He left Carleton in ,^[6][7] and became an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.^[8] In , Najita joined the University of Chicago faculty,^[9] and was later named a Robert S.

Ingersolll Distinguished Service Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.^[10]

Over the course of his career, Najita received a Guggenheim Fellowship in ,^[11] and was named to the American A Tetsuo Najita | American Academy of Arts and Sciences TEVYP