Dorothy Borg

Dorothy Borg (September 4, 1902 Elberon, New Jersey – October 25, 1993 New York City) was an American historian specializing in American=-East Asian relations. Although she did not hold faculty appointments, her multi-archival and objective scholarship influenced the development of the field of American history of foreign relations.

Life

A native of the Elberon section of Long Branch, New Jersey, she graduated from Wellesley College and from Columbia University with a master's and doctoral degrees.[1]

She spent two years in Beijing and Shanghai in the 1940s as a staff member of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations.[2]

She was a researcher at Harvard University, where she helped organize programs that trained scholars in American and East Asian history.

From 1966 until her retirement, she was a senior research associate at Columbia University's East Asian Institute, lecturing and directing academic conferences.[3]

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