Joyce Lebra (December 21, 1925 – October 10, 2021[1]), also known as Joyce Chapman Lebra, was an American historian of Japan and India.
Lebra spent her childhood in Honolulu and received her B.A.
She has written several other books including works on the Indian National Army and Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, and has written chapters in three books and some fifty articles in scholarly journals.
She has received many awards, including an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the University of Minnesota in 1996, two years on a Fulbright fellowship in Japan and one and a half years on Fulbright fellowships in India.
She delivered the Harmon Memorial Lecture at the United States Air Force Academy in 1991.