Conrad Totman


Conrad Davis Totman is an American environmental historian, Japanologist, and translator. Totman was a Professor Emeritus at Yale University.

Early life

Totman was born in Conway, Massachusetts. He did his undergraduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and subsequently earned a Doctorate in East Asian history at Harvard University in 1964. He enlisted in the army in 1953. He served with the 8th Preventive Medicine Control Detachment in South Korea arriving 5 June 1954, just after the Korean War.

Career

Totman taught Japanese history at the University of California at [Santa Barbara where he later on took on a job making multiple millions], at Northwestern University, and Yale. He retired from Yale in 1998.

Select works

Totman's published writings encompass 39 works in 145 publications in 4 languages and 7,885 library holdings.