• Modern Japanese history
• Modern Korean history

A magna cum laude graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in East Asian Studies, Alexis Dudden earned both her Master's degree and her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She is fluent in Japanese and proficient in Korean and French, having studied at Rikkyo University and Keio University in Tokyo, and Yonsei University in Seoul.

Her doctoral dissertation focused on Japan's takeover of Korea in the late 19th century, arguing that Japan's manipulation of the legal lexicon of colonial exploitation was crucial for establishing the international perception of Japan as a "legal" nation early in the twentieth century.

Her current research is on the politics of apology in the post-1945 era between Japan and Korea and the United States in order to better examine how apologetic techniques at the policy level interweave with historical apologisms in general.

Professor Dudden was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, US Department of Education, 2002-03 (Seoul National University); Japan Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2001-2002 (Rikkyo University, Tokyo); ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2001; Freeman Foundation, Group travel award to South Korea, 2001 (took 8 Connecticut students to Korea), as well as a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. She received the Wayne C. Booth Graduate Teaching Prize at the University of Chicago, where she was a Century Fellow and received a Toyota Teaching Fellowship.

Her publications include Discourse and Power: Japan's Annexation of Korea, 1910 (2004); "Japan's Apologetic Techniques With Korea," in Mark Bradley and Patrice Petro, eds., Truth Claims: Representation and Human Rights (Rutgers University Press, 2002); "We Came to Tell the Truth: Reflections on the Tokyo Women's Tribunal," Critical Asian Studies (Winter 2001); "Japan's Engagement with International Terms," in Lydia Liu, ed., Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulation (Duke University Press, 1999.) She served as editor of the English edition of The Journal in 1996, and contributed to The Journal of Asian Studies Book Review in the Spring of 1995.

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