Berger, Gordon

Professor
Department of History
213-740-1678
gberger@usc.edu

Professor Berger researches 20th Century political and institutional Japanese history. He applies psychoanalytic perspectives to study how Japanese males in the 19th Century were taught to deal with anxiety. In addition, he researches sumo wrestling as a contemporary sport and institutional mirror through which to view Japanese history over the past 1200 years. At USC, he is the director of the East Asian Studies Center, and has focused his efforts on developing a Korean Studies program and an endowment for the USC Korean Heritage Library collection.
 
Education:
Ph.D. (History), Yale University, 1972
M.A. (East Asian Studies), Yale University, 1966
B.A., Wesleyan University, 1964

Selected Publications:
"The Imperial Rule Assistance Association, Politics and Mobilization in Japan, 1931-1945." In Cambridge History of Japan, VI, 2000.

Can Humankind Prevent War, 1996.
   
Kenkenroku: A Diplomatic Record of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-95, Princeton UP and University of Tokyo Press, 1982.

Parties Out of Power in Japan, 1931-41, Princeton UP, 1976.

Honors and Awards:
USC Raubenheimer Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, 2000