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Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History Department
Stevenson College
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Title Chair and Professor, History Department
Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories

Affiliation Faculty

Other UCSC Campus Affiliation Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
East Asian Studies
Feminist Studies Department

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise History
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Asian American Pacific Islander History
Comparative Politics
California History
Colonialism
Feminist Studies
Gender Studies
Labor and Social Movements
Oral History

Web Site

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
538

Office Hours for Students/ Office Hours Wednesday 11:00-1:00 and by appointment by booking https://calendar.app.google/apohujeq8oUeA8ZS6

Mail Stop Humanities Academic Services

Biography, Education and Training

B.A., M.A.T. Brown University
M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University

Summary of Expertise

Historical Memory, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Gender, 20th Century US History, Pacific War History, Oral History, Redress, and Reparations

Research Interests

interdisciplinary and transnational research and teaching collaborations, memories of the War on Terror, patriotism, protest, civil and human rights

Teaching Interests

World War II Memories, Asian American Pacific Islander History, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Historical Memory, Graduate Thesis Writing

Awards, Honors and Grants

National Endowment for the Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Pacific Rim Research Program, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and the Institute for Humanities Research

Selected Exhibitions

http://cspwm.ucsc.edu

Selected Publications

• Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (Stanford University Press, 2007)
• Major Problems in Asian American History, co-editor (Houghton-Mifflin, 2003)
• What Did the Internment of Japanese American during World War II Mean? (Bedford/St. Martin's and Macmillan, 2000)
• “Eternal Flames: The Translingual Imperative in the Study of World War II Memories,” Problems and Methods in Recent American History (University of Georgia Press, 2011)
• "Edison Uno: The Experience and the Legacy of the Japanese American Internment,” The Human Tradition in California (Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2002)
• "Ilse Women and the Early Korean Community: Redefining the Origins of Feminist Empowerment." Korean American Women: Living in Two Cultures, Y. Song and A. Moon, eds. (Los Angeles and Taeju, Korea: Academia Koreana Keimyung University Press, 1997). Reprinted in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2000)
• "Oral History Research, Theory, and Asian American Studies." Amerasia Journal 26:1 (2000)

Courses HIS 80Y, World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan
HIS 106B, Asian and Asian American History, 1941-Present
HIS 194Y, Memories of WWII in the U.S. and Japan
HIS 201, Directed Research Colloquium
HIS 190G Comparative History of Redress and Reparations