専門は東アジア近現代史。父親はフルブライト協会の創設者であり、事務局長(1980〜84年)を務めた歴史学者のブリンマー大学のArthur Power Dudden教授 (1921–2009)[1]。1991年にコロンビア大学を成績上位（magna cum laude）で卒業。1991～1992年に慶応義塾大学、1995～1996年にフルブライト奨学金で立教大学に留学し、1997年にシカゴ大学を卒業。1998年からコネチカット大学准教授に就任[2][3]。2005年に「Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power.」を執筆し、日韓併合は帝国主義時代の潮流の結果ではなく日本が韓国を計画的に植民地にした結果である主張し、日韓併合に関する新しい学術的な見解として評価された[3]。2015年に朝鮮日報社からマンへ賞（英語版）の平和賞を受賞。同年の韓国独立運動記念日の記念演説で朴槿恵大統領が「歴史とは好きに取捨選択し、必要なことだけ記憶するものではない」とダデンの言葉を引用する[4]など韓国への影響力を深める。2016年から2017年にかけては韓国の延世大学国際学研究科の客員教授を務めた[5]。古森義久によれば、女性国際戦犯法廷の主催者とされる[6]が、女性国際法廷の主催者名簿に彼女の名前は存在しない[7]。
2019年11月1日、ガーディアン紙に“Japan’s rising sun has a history of horror. It must be banned at the Tokyo Olympics”を寄稿して、旭日旗を掲げる行為は大日本帝国の侵略の歴史を肯定して残虐行為を浄化する目的であるため韓国が意義を唱えることは当然の行為であると旭日旗問題を解説し、国際オリンピック委員会に対して、この旗の下で80万人の韓国人が奴隷にされ、中国、シンガポール、フィリピン、ミャンマーなど何百万人もの人々が暴力に苦しめられたことを日本に教育しなければ、これらの国々がボイコットすることになると警告を行った[14]。
^“Japan's rising sun flag has a history of horror. It must be banned at the Tokyo Olympics”. The Guardian. (2019年11月1日). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/japan-rising-sun-flag-history-olympic-ban-south-korea. "American prisoners of war alone laboured at more than 50 sites in Japan with a death rate of up to 40%, and, although there have been a handful of personal apologies, there have not been reparations for any of those who were enslaved and imprisoned – Koreans, Americans, Chinese, Filipinos, Australians, British soldiers or anyone else. On this point Washington’s evasion stands out: the 1951 Treaty of Peace (the Treaty of San Francisco) and the US-Japan Mutual Security Treaty sacrificed reparations for American security interests – something that troubled other Allies at the time. Throughout, Japanese governments have navigated issues of legal responsibility by sidestepping open discussion of wartime era acts of aggression, including slave labour and even cannibalism."{{cite news}}: |date=の日付が不正です。 (説明)⚠
^“Japan's rising sun flag has a history of horror. It must be banned at the Tokyo Olympics”. The Guardian. (2019年11月1日). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/japan-rising-sun-flag-history-olympic-ban-south-korea. "Since July 2019, a spat over trade restrictions and security arrangements has spilled on to the streets in both countries – Japanese beer sales in South Korea are down more than 97% while Korean-themed art exhibits have been cancelled in Japan – prompting many to declare that relations are at their lowest point since Japan’s occupation of Korea ended in 1945. This has been fuelled by polarised perceptions of the history of forced and slave labour during that occupation, when 800,000 Koreans were forcibly mobilised to work in Japan (among other issues, of course). But South Korea is not the only country where the flag causes offence. The IOC should educate itself before concerns and calls to boycott the games spread to China, Singapore, the Philippines or Myanmar, where millions of people suffered similar violence under the rising sun symbol."{{cite news}}: |date=の日付が不正です。 (説明)⚠
^“Japan's rising sun flag has a history of horror. It must be banned at the Tokyo Olympics”. The Guardian. (2019年11月1日). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/01/japan-rising-sun-flag-history-olympic-ban-south-korea. "Washington must take responsibility for this situation, too. Its perennial insistence that Japan and South Korea “work out among themselves” their wartime histories perpetuates the split by failing to address how the United States put in place many of the post-1945 problems that have affected the region. The standoff has become so bitter that Washington cannot even maintain a security pact arranged between Seoul and Tokyo to share intelligence about North Korean missile launches. Tokyo appears so confident of Washington’s backing that it willfully disregards Allied prisoner of war suffering during the second world war, just as it dismisses the pain endured by the Koreans."{{cite news}}: |date=の日付が不正です。 (説明)⚠
