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American historian (born 1963)

Sheila Miyoshi Jager (born 1963) is an American historian.

Barack Obama proposed to a “serious” girlfriend before he met his eventual wife Michelle, according to a new biography of the former US President.

They got engaged in and married in Jager, 53, is now an associate professor and director of the East Asian program at Oberlin College.

Mr Obama fell in love with Sheila Miyoshi Jager, whose ancestry is Dutch and Japanese, before attending Harvard Law School.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager received her Ph.D.

At Oberlin College, she is an associate professor and the program director of East Asian Studies.

She is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College, author of two books on Korea, co-editor of a third book on Asian nations in the post-Cold War era, and a forthcoming book on great power competition in northeast Asia at the turn of the 19th-20th century.

She is a well-known historian of Korea and East Asia.

Early life

Sheila Miyoshi Jager was born in 1963.^[1] She is of Dutch and Japanese ancestry.^[2] She graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984.^[3] She earned a Master of Arts degree from Middlebury College in 1985, and a PhD in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1994.^[3]

Career

Jager is a Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.^[3] She is the author of several books about East Asian history.^[4]

Her first book, Narratives of Nation Bu