JUSTIN H. LIBBY - EMERITUS

Associate Professor Emeritus of History. B.A. University of Cincinnati 1965, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. Michigan State University 1971.

Teaching specialties: American history, American diplomatic history, history of Japan. Research: Congressional opinion towards Japan, 1931-1941; American acquisition of empire and the civil governments established resulting from the Spanish-American War; Japanese diplomatic attempts to surrender prior to the American use of nuclear weapons in 1945.

Publications: The Irresolute Years: American Congressional Opinion Toward Japan, 1937-1941 (Hong Kong: Asian Studies Monograph Series, 1984); articles in Mid-America, Journal of Caribbean Studies, Pacific Historian and other journals. Most recent essays: "A Marine Corps Son: Colonel Earl Hancock Ellis, the Prophecy of War and Mysterious Death", Marine Corps Gazette (April 2000); "Omens of War: Joseph C. Rochefort and Eugene H. Dooman and the Intelligence of the Coming War with Japan, 1941", Naval Intelligence Professional Quarterly, XXVII (Winter 2001).

Office: UL-3135F
Phone: (317) 274-3981
jhlibby@iupui.edu