Roger daniels biography

          Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati.

        1. Roger Daniels is Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati.
        2. Historian Roger Daniels has written numerous books, mostly on immigration history and Japanese-American internment during World War II. He was past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the Immigration.
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        4. Daniels was regarded by many to be the pre-eminent historian of his generation on the Japanese American experience and was an important friend.
        5. Daniels started at UC, following stints at a few other universities, as head of the history department in , a position he held for five years.

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          Daniels started at UC, following stints at a few other universities, as head of the history department in 1976, a position he held for five years.

          He was named the Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History in '94.

          "I have always tried to convince my students, at whatever level, that history is not just about great dead white men, but that, properly considered, it is about the changing hopes and aspirations, successes and failures, of the human race," Daniels says.

          Nominated by his students, he won an award of excellence from UC for the effort he put toward mentoring his PhD candidates.

          "It seems to me that mentoring is simply a long-range form of teaching," Daniels says. "They came to know that I cared about what they were doing. I taught at a number of places, and I still get mail from students I had 20, 30, 40 years ago."

          Daniels, a national expert on immigration, still hears from former students when they see his name in a newspaper article o