{"id":1627,"date":"2012-12-17T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2012-12-17T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:12:12","slug":"herbert-bix-reflects-on-academic-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2012\/12\/17\/herbert-bix-reflects-on-academic-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Bix reflects on academic career"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1628\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/Bix-pik2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1628\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2012\/12\/Bix-pik2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Histoty\/sociology professor Herbert Box, seen here giving a lecture in November, is retiring after 13 years at Binghamton University.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Ethan Day|\u00a0DECEMBER\u00a017,\u00a02012<\/p>\n<p>Binghamton University is the final teaching post for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herbert P. Bix. The professor of history and sociology, 74, will retire at the end of the fall 2012 semester, following a remarkable career studying 19th- and 20th-century Japan, and Japan-U.S. relations.<\/p>\n<p>Bix\u2019s career accomplishments include winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2001; receiving the United States-Japan Educational Commission Research award \u2013 a Fulbright grant \u2013 to conduct research in Japan from December 1992 through July 1993; and winning the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 2001 for his book \u201cHirohito and the Making of Modern Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His interest in Japan and East Asian history began early in life, well before the longtime professor began his undergraduate work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore I left for college at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, I had read a book in my local school library about Japanese soldiers and Chinese comfort women that was of great interest to me,\u201d he says. \u201cAlso, I think a person born in 1938, growing up in a working class community, would naturally be interested in World War II and Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After attending the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Bix joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and served a tour of duty aboard ships stationed in Japan. He then attended Harvard University at the height of the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember the summer of 1965 at Columbia, taking part in anti-war demonstrations where we were pelted with things,\u201d Bix says. \u201cLater in Fall 1966 we got on the busses and headed off to Washington for the protests. I remember going with a friend to the airport in Washington to greet a famous Japanese writer, and we were so surprised because he got off the plane carrying a gas mask, so he knew what was about to happen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/inside\/index.php\/inside\/story\/herbert-bix-reflects-on-academic-caeer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ethan Day|\u00a0DECEMBER\u00a017,\u00a02012 Binghamton University is the final teaching post for Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herbert P. Bix. The professor of history and sociology, 74, will retire at the end of the fall 2012 semester, following a remarkable career studying 19th- and 20th-century Japan, and Japan-U.S. relations. Bix\u2019s career accomplishments include winning the National Book Critics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-faculty","7":"category-university-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}