

He taught at the University of Chicago from 1960-69 and earned a doctorate in Japanese history from the University of Michigan. He also spent 16 months with the Army in the Korean conflict from 1952-54.

He was 76.Ī specialist in modern Japanese intellectual history, Soviak was on the faculty of the Department of History from 1969 until his retirement in 1993.īorn in Michigan in 1927, Soviak earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Far Eastern history, both from Wayne State University, in 19.

Eugene Soviak, Ph.D., professor emeritus of history in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, Oct.
