Faculty Scholarship

Eric D. Dinmore, Assistant Professor of History

SINCE JOINING the Department of History in January 2006, Assistant Professor Eric G. Dinmore has engaged in two research projects related to his Ph.D. dissertation on 20th-century Japanese natural resource policy thought. The first focuses on the popularity of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a model of natural resource development in occupied Japan immediately following World War II. Dinmore presented portions of this research at the March 2005 annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History in Houston and more recently, at the March 2007 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in Boston. This fall, Dinmore submitted an article on this topic for publication.

With funding from Hampden-Sydney College and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, Dinmore launched a second project that ties together the modern histories of Japan and Indonesia. He traveled to Tokyo, Japan, in July and August to investigate a unit of Japanese engineers dispatched to secure petroleum resources in Palembang, Sumatra, during World War II. Drawing mainly from Japanese-language sources, he plans to assess how the experiences of this “oil corps” influenced Japanese-Indonesian relations after 1945.

Dinmore holds the B.A. degree from Haverford College, the M.S. from the University of Washington, and the Ph.D. from Princeton University.

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty