John W. Dower, historian and award-winning writer
"Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and 9/11"
The William A. Kinnison Endowed Lecture in History
7:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 10, 2006
Weaver Chapel

John W. Dower is currently Ford International Professor of History at MIT. The primary focus of his research is modern Japan and U.S. ­ Japan relations. His book, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for General Nonfiction, the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize in American History and the Yamagata Banto Prize for Creative Work on Japan by a non-Japanese Scholar. Dower has long been an advocate for international peace and was the executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Hellfire-A Journey from Hiroshima (1988).