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{{Short description|American historian (1925–2021)}}
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'''Joyce Lebra''' (December 21, 1925 – October 10, 2021<ref>[https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/10/17/joyce-lebra-first-female-university-of-colorado-boulder-history-professor-dies-at-95/ Joyce Lebra, first female University of Colorado Boulder history professor, dies at 95]</ref>), also known as '''Joyce Chapman Lebra''', was an American historian of [[Japan]] and India.

==Biography==
Lebra spent her childhood in [[Honolulu]] and received her B.A. and M.A. in Asian studies from the [[University of Minnesota]]. She received a Ph.D. in Japanese history from [[Radcliffe College|Harvard/Radcliffe]], and was the first woman Ph.D. in Japanese history in the U.S.

She lived in Japan a total of ten years and three and a half in [[India]] doing research on the history of Japan and India. She was professor of Japanese history and Indian history at the [[University of Colorado at Boulder|University of Colorado]] until her retirement.

She led three research teams to Asia to research women’s roles in the work force, each of which resulted in a book (1977, 1980 and 1984). She has written several other books including works on the [[Indian National Army]] and Lakshmibai, the [[Rani of Jhansi]], and has written chapters in three books and some fifty articles in scholarly journals.

She has received many awards, including an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota in 1996, two years on a [[Fulbright|Fulbright fellowship]] in Japan and one and a half years on Fulbright fellowships in India. Other fellowships include a [[Japan Foundation]] fellowship, a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] fellowship, one from the [[American Association of University Women]], one from [[Australian National University]], and others. She is noted in ''[[Who’s Who in America]]'', ''Who’s Who of American Women'', and ''Who’s Who in American Education''. She has lectured widely at [[University of Oxford]], the [[London School of Economics]], [[University of Tokyo]], [[Waseda University]], [[Nagoya University]], [[University of Hong Kong]], the [[Institute of Southeast Asian Studies]] in Singapore, the [[Subhas Chandra Bose|Netaji Research Bureau]] in [[Calcutta University|Calcutta]], [[University of Melbourne|Melbourne]] and [[Monash University|Monash]] Universities, [[Macquarie University]], [[University of Sydney]], [[University of Queensland]], and [[Australian National University]] in Canberra. She delivered the Harmon Memorial Lecture at the [[United States Air Force Academy]] in 1991.

==Selected works==
;Historical novels
*''Durga’s Sword'' (1995)
*''Sugar And Smoke'' (2005, writing as Napua Chapman)
*''Scent of Sake'' (2009)

;Non-fiction
*''Jungle Alliance; Japan And The Indian National Army'' (1971)
*''Okuma Shigenobu; Statesman Of Meiji Japan'' (1973)
*''Japanese-trained Armies In Southeast Asia'' (1977)
*''Women In Changing Japan'' (1977)
*''Chinese Women In Southeast Asia'' (1980)
*''Women And Work In India'' (1984)
*''The Rani Of Jhansi; A Study In Female Heroism In India'' (1986)
*''Shaping Hawai’i; The Voices Of Women'' (1999)
*''Japan’s Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere'' (1975, editor)

== Honours ==
*[[File:JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 3Class BAR.svg|55px|ribbon bar]] [[Order of the Rising Sun|Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Class, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon]]: 2021<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/100182755.pdf|title= 令和3年春の外国人叙勲受章者名簿|access-date= April 29, 2021|work= Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan}}</ref>

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