INSIGHT SERIES: Love and Loss: Madama Butterfly's Fate in a Changing Japan

Daniel Masterson, retired USNA professor of history, author, and noted scholar will be discussing the opening of the Far East, why the United States, particularly the Navy, saw this as an opportunity, and the outcomes of the emerging relationship between Japan and the United States.

Professor Masterson specialized in civil-military relations, race relations, modern Peru, immigration and the Japanese diaspora. He is the recipient of the State Department's Scholar-Diplomat Seminar, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Research Award, two Cornell University Research Awards, two National Endowment for the Humanities Awards to Cornell and Stanford Universities and numerous Naval Academy Research Awards.