Alexis Dudden is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut. She publishes regularly about Japan and Northeast Asia, and her books include Troubled Apologies Among Japan, Korea, and the United States (Columbia, 2008) and Japan’s Colonization of Korea (Hawaii, 2005). Her work also frequently appears in The Huffington Post, Dissent, and The New York Times, among other venues. Dudden received her BA from Columbia University in 1991 and her PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 1998. She has lived and studied for extended periods of time in Japan and South Korea, with awards from Fulbright, ACLS, NEH, and SSRC, and fellowships at Princeton and Harvard,d and is the recipient of the 2015 Manhae Peace Prize. She is currently completing a book about Japan’s territorial problems and the changing meaning of islands called, The State of Japan: Islands, Empire, Nation, and is an advisory council member of Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies’ Research Project on Constitutional Revision. She is currently the Fulbright U.S.-R.O.K. Alliance Visiting Professor at Yonsei University.