Professor Emerita

University of Colorado

566A Kaleo Place
Kihei, HI 96753

or

1850 Folsom #1104
Bolder CO, 80302

TEL: (808) 874-7578
FAX: (808) 879-2219
EMAIL: joyce.lebra@colorado.edu

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese (with advance preparation)

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  film, film studies
• HISTORY
  business history; Meiji restoration; military history; political and diplomatic history; women's history; World War II
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  military issues

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, University of Colorado, 1962-91; Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, 1961-62; Visiting Professor, University of Texas, 1960-61.

IN JAPAN: 1955-57, 1959-60 - research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

A Hawaiian Historical Novel (in progress); 'Amaterasu's Daughter' - A Japanese Historical Novel; Japanese Trained Armies in Southeast Asia (Heinemann and Columbia University Press, 1977); Jungle Alliance, Japan and the Indian National Army (Donald Moore, 1971); Japan's Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere in WWII (Oxford, 1975); Women in Changing Japan (Westview, 1976, Stanford, 1976).