John Curtis Perry
East Asian and Maritime studies professor · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1930 to 2025 · aged 94
John Curtis Perry, also known as John Perry, was an East Asian and Oceanic studies professor and historian. He was a professor and chair of the history department at Carleton College. Later he became the Henry Willard Denison Professor of History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.
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Perry and Sung-Yoon Lee in 2015[17][24]
Perry meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Korea Yun Byung-se in 2015
book cover for Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia
Book cover of Facing West: Americans and the Opening of the Pacific (1995)
Singapore - Unlikely Power, 2017
Perry in 2014, giving the final classroom lecture of his maritime history course before retiring from teachingAwards
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He was also the director of that school's Maritime Studies program and founding president of the Institute for Global Maritime Studies, until his retirement in 2014.
