Dorothy Borg

Dorothy Borg (Sept. 4, 1902 Elberon, New Jersey - Oct. 25 1996 New York City) was an American historian.

Life

A native of Elberon, New Jersey, she graduated from Wellesley College and from Columbia University with a master's and doctoral degrees.^[1]

She spent two years in Beijing and Shanghai in the 1940s as a staff member of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations.^[2]

She was a researcher at Harvard University, where she helped organize programs that trained scholars in American and East Asian history.

From 1966 until her retirement, she was a senior research associate at Columbia University's East Asian Institute, lecturing and directing academic conferences.^[3]

Awards

• 1965 Bancroft Prize

Works

• The United States and the Far Eastern Crisis, 1933-1938 (Harvard University Press, 1965)
• Dorothy Borg, Shumpei Okamoto, ed (1973). Pearl Harbor as History: Japanese-American Relations, 1931-1941. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231038904. 
• Dorothy Borg, Waldo H. Heinrichs, ed (1980). Uncertain Years: Chinese American Relations, 1947-1950. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231047388. http://books.google.com/books?id=462-ocjLNtAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dorothy+Borg&source=bl&ots=E8NtujYfaN&sig=-MT0-SCk2X6-djz8Lr9DcrOBBRQ&hl=en&ei=SShSS8TKM4jINc_j4Y8J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CB0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ "In Memoriam", Perspectives, American Historical Association, April 1994
2. ^ "HISTORIAN, DOROTHY BORG, DEAD AT 91", COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY RECORD, November 12, 1993 Vol. 19 No. 10
3. ^ WOLFGANG SAXON (October 28, 1993). "Dorothy Borg, 91, East Asia Scholar At Columbia, Dies". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/28/obituaries/dorothy-borg-91-east-asia-scholar-at-columbia-dies.html?pagewanted=1. 

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Name	Borg, Dorothy
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Date of birth	1902
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Date of death	1996
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