Sheila miyoshi jager biography for kids

American historian (born 1963)

Sheila Miyoshi Jager (born 1963) is an American historian. She is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, author of two books on Korea, co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era, and a forthcoming book on great power competition in northeast Asia at the turn of the 19th-20th century.

She is a well-known historian of Korea and East Asia.

Early life

Sheila Miyoshi Jager was born in 1963.^[1] She is of Dutch and Japanese ancestry.^[2] She graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984.^[3] She earned a Master of Arts degree from Middlebury College in 1985, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1994.^[3]

Career

Jager is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.^[3] She is the author of several books about East Asian history.^[4]

Her first book, Narratives of Nation Bu