Daniels, Roger

Roger Daniels, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati, was born in New York City in 1927. Daniels served in the Merchant Marine during the latter part of World War II and served in the Army during the Korean War. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Houston, and received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1961. Daniels taught at Wisconsin State University, UCLA, University of Wyoming, and SUNY Fredonia before coming to the University of Cincinnati in 1976. Daniels specialized in immigration history, especially Japanese-American history. He has published numerous articles and books on U.S. immigration history and Asian immigration to the United States. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, was a member of the planning committee for the immigration museum on Ellis Island. Daniel also served as president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and president of the Immigration History Society among numerous other committee memberships. Daniels retired in 2002.