41. Prof. Dennis Frost
Kalamazoo College-Wen Chao Chen Associate Professor of East Asian Social Sciences. His research focuses on modern Japanese history, with particular emphases on sports, disability, militarization, and urban development. At K, I teach courses on the entire scope of premodern, modern, and contemporary East Asian history with particular focus on China, Japan, and Korea. I also teach First-Year and Sophomore Seminars in the College’s Shared Passages Program, as well as Senior Seminars for the History Department and the East Asian Studies Program.
Dennis most recent book is More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan.
Dennis has a son with spina bifida who plays tennis, sled hockey and other sports