Paul Dunscomb

Professor Paul Dunscomb is a Professor of East Asian history at the University of Alaska Anchorage. His NCTA programs are offered through the Anchorage School District Summer Academy.

Paul worked in broadcast television for several years before beginning graduate studies in history. He lived in Japan for two years while working on his Ph.D. dissertation. While his initial research focused on Japan’s Siberian Intervention, 1918-1922 and Japanese Imperialism his most recent work attempts to bring not only Postwar Japan but events of the last two and a half decades into focus. His current work examines the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004 as a means to understand the nature of change in Japan during the early Heisei period (1989-2009).

Read more about Paul on the UAA website

Paul’s recent programs

• Summer Program  Post-postwar Japan: Its Fall and Rise (NCTA in-person Summer Program) (2024)
  • Workshop Japanese Baseball: When You Come to the Fork in the Road, Take It – NCTA online program (2024)
  • Workshop What You Need to Know about Japan Since 1945 (2016)
  • Seminar Teaching Korea’s History and Culture (2016)
  • Seminar Chinese Culture in Context (2015)