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Dr. Febe Pamonag

Assistant Professor

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WIU URC Award Winner

 

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Dr. Febe Pamonag joined the Department in the Fall of 2007 as its specialist in Asian History. Prof. Pamonag received her Ph.D. in 2006 from the University of Alberta. She offers the Department's upper-division courses  on the history of China [History 345], Japan [History 346], modern East Asia [History 445 (G)], and topics in Asian history (History 485 (G)], the Asian history survey course [History 145], which is available for Humanities and Multi-cultural General Education credit, and graduate seminars  on the history of modern Japan, women and gender in modern Asia, and history and memory of the Asia-Pacific War [History 530 and 531].

Prof. Pamonag's current research explores the transnational initiatives for the promotion of Japanese women’s higher education from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century.

Prof. Pamonag’s new article, “'A Bryn Mawr School in the East': Transpacific Initiatives for Japanese Women’s Higher Education,"   was published in the November 2012 issue of the Pacific Historical Review. Her work on Japanese education reformer Tsuda Umeko and Philadelphia Quaker women was published in the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal. Prof. Pamonag was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for a four-week study tour of China in summer 2013. She also won other awards, including a WIU University Research Council Grant and a WIU Faculty Summer Stipend to support her research.

 

 

 

 

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