Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies

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Kerry Smith did his undergraduate and graduate work at Harvard, and joined the Brown History Department in 1997. He is the author most recently of Predicting Disasters:  Earthquakes, Scientists and Uncertainty in Modern Japan (University of Pennsylvania Press, Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster), and editor of a special issue of Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus on the 100th anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake. His earlier work includes  A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization (Harvard University Press), a number of shorter pieces on the social history of interwar Japan, and a prize-winning article on Japan's first "official" museum of the war years. Professor Smith teaches courses on the history of modern Japan, the global atomic age, and Tokyo. 

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