Director, Asian Studies

State University of New York at Buffalo

715 Clemens Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260

TEL: (716) 645-3474
FAX: (716) 645-3473
HOME: (716) 773-0057
E-MAIL: burkman@buffalo.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  international organization
• HISTORY
  history of US-Japan relations; political and diplomatic history; Post-World War II; prewar political history; World War II
• RELIGION
  Christianity; social issues

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Adjunct Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994 - present; Visiting Associate Professor, Hamilton College, 1992-93; Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Old Dominion University, 1976-91; Instructor, Colby College, 1975-76; Lecturer, Kwansei Gakuin University and Kobe Women's College, 1965-68.

IN JAPAN: 1960 - study; 1965-68 - employment; 1973-4 - pre-dissertation research; 1978- Fulbright; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"Nitobe Inazo: From World Order to Regional Order," Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals During the Interwar Years (ed. Rimer) (Princeton, 1990); The Occupation of Japan: Arts and Culture (ed.) (The MacArthur Memorial, 1988); The Occupation of Japan: The International Context (ed.) (The MacArthur Memorial, 1984); The Occupation of Japan: Educational and Social Reform (ed.) (The MacArthur Memorial, 1982).