Hello and welcome!
David Fedman is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020), which received the Forest History Society’s Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award and the American Historical Association’s Pacific Coast Branch Book Award. His most recent book, as co-editor, is Forces of Nature: New Approaches to Korean Environments (Cornell University Press, 2023).
He is also, a bit further afield, engaged in an ongoing collaborative research project with geographer Cary Karacas on the targeting and destruction of urban Japan during World War II. This project is housed at JapanAirRaids.org, a bilingual digital archive they maintain. Most recently, he served as an Executive Producer of Paper City, an award-winning documentary about the history and memory of the firebombing of Tokyo.
His writings have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other venues. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
He can be reached at dfedman [at] uci.edu