Sarah C. M. Paine Last updated November 15, 2025 Career Paine graduated with a BA degree magna cum laude in Latin American studies at Harvard College in 1979;she then obtained an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University in 1984,and an MA degree in Russian from Middlebury College in 1989. [ 3] She spent ten years on her doctoral research in Russian and Chinese history at Columbia University ,which included five years of research and language study in China,Taiwan,Russia,Japan,and Australia. She finally received her PhD degree in history from Columbia in 1993. [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] She has received two Title VIII fellowships from the Hoover Institution , [ 6] two Fulbright fellowships,and other fellowships from Japan,Taiwan,and Australia. [ 4] She began her career at the Naval War College as an associate professor in 2000,was promoted to full professor in 2006,and from 2014 to 2025 she was the William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy and also held the position of Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History . [ 1] [ 2]
Personal life She has three brothers [ 7] including John B. Paine III,and Thomas M. Paine. [ 8]
Selected publications Author "Japan caught between maritime and continental imperialism",in The Makers of Modern Strategy:From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (Princeton University Press,2023,pages 415–439). The Japanese Empire:Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War (Cambridge University Press,2017). The Wars for Asia 1911–1949 (Cambridge University Press,2012). 2012 Winner of the PROSE award for European &World History [ 9] and longlisted for the Lionel Gelber prize . [ 10] The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895:Perceptions,Power,and Primacy (Cambridge University Press,2003).Imperial Rivals:China,Russia,and Their Disputed Frontier,1858–1924 (M.E. Sharpe,1996). Winner of the 1997 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize . [ 11] Co-author with Bruce A. Elleman:
Modern China:Continuity and Change,1644 to the Present (Prentice Hall,2010).Editor Nation Building,State Building and Economic Development:Case Studies and Comparisons (M.E. Sharpe,2010).Co-editor with Bruce A. Elleman:
Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare:Peripheral Campaigns and New Theatres of Naval Warfare (Routledge,2011).Naval Coalition Warfare:From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom (Routledge,2008).Naval Blockades and Seapower:Strategies and Counter-Strategies 1805–2005 (Routledge,2006). [ 1] Notes 1 2 3 "Sarah C. M. Paine" . U.S. Naval War College. Retrieved June 19, 2025 . 1 2 "Sarah C. M. Paine" . Johns Hopkins SAIS . February 6, 2020. Retrieved August 25, 2025 . 1 2 "Sarah C. M. Paine" . Hoover Institution . Retrieved September 25, 2025 . 1 2 Paine, S.C.M. (2017). The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War . Cambridge University Press. p. ii. ↑ Paine, S.C.M. (2012). The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 . Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ISBN 978-1107697478 ↑ Paine, S.C.M. (2012). The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 . Cambridge University Press. p. xiii. ↑ "Sarah Paine EP 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)" – via YouTube. ↑ Paine, S.C.M. (2003). The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 – Perceptions, Power, and Primacy . Cambridge University Press. p. xi. ↑ "2012 Winner of the PROSE award for European & World History" . Association of American Publishers. ↑ Medley, Mark (February 4, 2013). "Lionel Gelber Prize longlist revealed" . National Post . Archived from the original on February 4, 2014. ↑ "Barbara Jelavich Book Prize" . Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014.
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