Lori Watt

Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri

Headshot of contributor, Lori Watt

Lori Watt is Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, where she specializes in Japanese history. She is the author of When Empire Comes Home: Repatriation and Reintegration in Postwar Japan (Harvard University Press, 2009).

In her current book project, she seeks to gain a better understanding of the Allied-managed population transfers throughout East Asia at the end of the World War II.