Jeffrey Paul Mass (June 29, 1940 – March 30, 2001) was an American academic, historian, author and

Japanologist , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, History of Japan, history, ...

. He was Yamato Ichihashi Professor of Japanese History at Stanford University.Sanford, John
"Jeffrey Mass, a leading authority on Japanese medieval history, dead at 60,"
Stanford News Service. April 9, 2001; retrieved 2012-11-9.

Early life

Mass was born in New York City in 1940. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Hamilton College in 1961, a master's degree in history from New York University in 1965, and he received his doctorate in history from Yale in 1971.Hamilton College
"Hamilton College Honorary Degree Presented in memoriam to Jeffrey P. Mass ’62"
; retrieved 2012-11-9.

Career

Mass joined the

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

faculty in 1973. He was made a full professor in 1981. After 1987, he spent the late spring and summer of each year teaching at

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. During many years, his research was supported by a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship and a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

, and other grants.

Selected works

In an overview of writings by and about Mass,

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lists roughly 30+ works in 110+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities

Mass, Jeffrey P.
retrieved 2012-11-9. :''This list is not finished; you can help Wikipedia by adding to it.'' * ''Warrior government in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Bakufu, shugo and jitō,'' 1974 * ''The Kamakura bakufu: a study in documents,'' 1976 * ''The development of Kamakura rule, 1180-1250: a history with documents,'' 1979 * ''Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history,'' 1982 * ''The Bakufu in Japanese history,'' 1985 * ''Lordship and inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Soryō system,'' 1989 * ''Antiquity and anachronism in Japanese history,'' 1992 * ''The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors, and peasants in the fourteenth century,'' 1997 * ''Yoritomo and the founding of the first Bakufu: the origins of dual government in Japan,'' 1999

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mass, Jeffrey 1940 births 2001 deaths 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers American Japanologists Historians of Japan Stanford University Department of History faculty 20th-century American male writers