Alexis Dudden

Alexis Dudden is professor of history at the University of Connecticut and was recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC (2021-2022) She holds degrees from Columbia (1991) and the University of Chicago (1998). Since 1985, Dudden has lived and studied for extended periods of time in Japan and South Korea and is the recipient of the Chosun Ilbo 2015 Manhae Peace Prize. She appears regularly on NPR and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian, and her ongoing research concerns maritime Northeast Asia and focuses on the globally changing meaning of oceans and islands.