Dorothy Borg
Dorothy Borg (September 4, 1902 Elberon, New Jersey - October 25, 1993 New York City) was an American historian specializing in American=-East Asian relations. Although she did not hold faculty appointments, her multi-archival and objective scholarship influenced the development of the field of American history of foreign relations.
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Life
A native of the Elberon section of Long Branch, New Jersey, she graduated from Wellesley College and from Columbia University with a master's and doctoral degrees.[1]
She spent two years in Beijing and Shanghai in the 1940s as a staff member of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations.[2]
She was a researcher at Harvard University, where she helped organize programs that trained scholars in American and East Asian history.
From 1966 until her retirement, she was a senior research associate at Columbia University's East Asian Institute, lecturing and directing academic conferences.[3]
Awards
- 1965 Bancroft Prize
Works
- American Policy and the Chinese Revolution, 1925-1928 (New York: American Institute of Pacific Relations; Macmillan, 1947; rpr. New York: Octagon, 1968.
- The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1933-1938 (Harvard University Press, 1965)
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References
- ↑ "In Memoriam", Perspectives, American Historical Association, April 1994
- ↑ "Historian, Dorothy Borg, Dead At 91", Columbia University Record, November 12, 1993 Vol. 19 No. 10
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