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The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.
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Reiko Maekawa, PhD (1985), Case Western Reserve University, is Professor Emeritus of International Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. She has published monographs and many articles on American culture and Japanese-American cultural exchanges, including "The Allied Occupation, the Cold War, and American Philanthropy: The Rockefeller Foundation in Postwar Japan" in
Philanthropy and Cultural Context: Western Philanthropy in South, East and Southeast Asia in the 20th Century, edited by Soma Hewa and Philo Hove (University Press of America, 1997).
Darwin H. Stapleton, PhD (1975), University of Delaware, is Executive Director Emeritus of the Rockefeller Archive Center. He taught at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Massachusetts Boston, and was Associate Editor of the Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. He has published widely as an historian of the international transfer of technology, science and medicine, and as an historian of philanthropy and education.
Roberta Wollons, Ph.D. 1983, University of Chicago. Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Editor of
Kindergartens and Cultures: the global diffusion of an idea (2000), author of "Writing Home to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions: Missionary Women Abroad Narrate their Precarious Worlds, 1869-1915," in Christine Meyer, ed.,
Gender, Power Relations and Education in a Transnational World, Palgrave Press, 2020, and author of numerous articles and chapters on American women missionary educators in Japan, India, and Ottoman Turkey.
