Donald Roden is an associate professor of history at Rutgers University. He is the founder of Rutgers' Mountainview Prison Project, a program that recruits and prepares students during their incarceration, and supports their pursuit of an undergraduate degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, after their release. For Roden, the Mountainview Project is his most important life's work. Dr. Roden has written about a variety of subjects dealing with East Asian history including Japanese baseball, Taisho culture, and foreigners in Meiji Japan.[1] He was awarded in 2006 for 30 years of service to Rutgers.[2]
His book Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite was reviewed in numerous journals.[3][4][5] He also authored a number of Monarch Notes for that publisher. [6]