Ricky Law
Associate Professor with Tenure
History
BIO
Ricky W. Law is a historian of interwar Germany, Japan, and transnational movements.
Law grew up in the Central Coast of California. He studied electrical engineering before receiving his B.A. in History and German from the University of California, Berkeley. In his junior year he attended the University of Göttingen, Germany as an exchange student. After graduation he taught English in Hokkaido, Japan as a participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Through his experiences abroad he developed a strong interest in Germany and Japan, which he pursued by earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in History (Global History concentration) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also fascinated by Roman history.
Law’s courses cover a broad range of topics and world regions. He created different versions of the Global Histories classes, with themes on genocide and weapons of mass destruction, nation-states in film, and democracy. He plans to develop other courses on German, Japanese, and Roman histories.
He is currently working on a book manuscript on interwar and wartime Japanese foreign relations through the lens of foreign language acquisition.
Law grew up in the Central Coast of California. He studied electrical engineering before receiving his B.A. in History and German from the University of California, Berkeley. In his junior year he attended the University of Göttingen, Germany as an exchange student. After graduation he taught English in Hokkaido, Japan as a participant of the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Through his experiences abroad he developed a strong interest in Germany and Japan, which he pursued by earning his M.A. and Ph.D. in History (Global History concentration) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is also fascinated by Roman history.
Law’s courses cover a broad range of topics and world regions. He created different versions of the Global Histories classes, with themes on genocide and weapons of mass destruction, nation-states in film, and democracy. He plans to develop other courses on German, Japanese, and Roman histories.
He is currently working on a book manuscript on interwar and wartime Japanese foreign relations through the lens of foreign language acquisition.
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States1 Jan 2012
- M.A.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
- B.A.University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
CAMPUS
- Pittsburgh