Tetsuo "Tets" Najita (奈地田 哲夫, Najita Tetsuo, March 30, 1936 – January 11, 2021) was an American historian.

Biography

A nisei,[1] Najita was raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1958, and was named a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.[2][3] While in Grinnell, he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa.[4] Najita completed a doctorate at Harvard University in 1965.[5]

Upon finishing his studies, Najita began teaching at Carleton College.[6] He left Carleton in 1966,[6][7] and became an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin.[8] In 1969, Najita joined the University of Chicago faculty,[9] and was later named a Robert S. Ingersolll Distinguished Service Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.[10]

Over the course of his career, Najita received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981,[11] and was named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993.[12] Grinnell College honored Najita with an alumni award in 1998.[2] Five years after his retirement from the institution, the University of Chicago inaugurated the Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series in 2007.[13]

Najita died at his home in Kamuela, Hawaii, on 11 January 2021, after a long illness.[14]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Sheridan, K. (2005). Planning Japan's Economic Future. Springer. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-230-59729-7.
  2. ^ a b "Grinnell College alumni award by classes" (PDF). Grinnell College. July 2018.
  3. ^ Cavanagh, Lynn; Schuchmann, Mary (2015). Grinnell. Arcadia Publishing. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-4396-5223-7.
  4. ^ "Handbook and directory" (PDF). Grinnell College. p. 31.
  5. ^ "Tetsuo Najita". University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Carleton College History Department gallery" (PDF). Carleton College. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Chronological Faculty List, 1875–present". Carleton College. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  8. ^ Najita, Tetsuo (December 1968). "Inukai Tsuyoshi: Some Dilemmas in Party Development in Pre-World War II Japan". The American Historical Review. 74 (2): 492–510. doi:10.2307/1853674. JSTOR 1853674.
  9. ^ "The 2010 Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese studies" (PDF). University of Chicago. 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  10. ^ "Tetsuo Najita, Ph.D." University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  11. ^ "Tetsuo Najita". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  12. ^ "American Academy of Arts & Sciences". University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  13. ^ "Najita Distinguished Lecture Series in Japanese Studies". University of Chicago. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  14. ^ "Association for Asian Studies: Tetsuo Najita (1936-2021)". Retrieved 28 January 2021.
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