Gerald Figal
Associate Professor
Undergraduate Studies Chair

Email: figal@udel.edu
Phone: 302-831-0798
Office: 122 John Munroe Hall
Class Schedule and Office Hours
Gerald Figal specializes in modern Japan, from the late nineteenth century to the present, and postwar Okinawa. He received his B.A. from UC Santa Barbara in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Chicago in 1992. His publications include Civilizations and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke, 1999) and articles on war memorials and tourism in Okinawa. He is currently working on a book-length project on tourism in postwar Okinawa.
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Fall 2002 Courses:

HIST138-010: EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATION: JAPAN
HIST370-010: HISTORY OF MODERN JAPAN