Graduate Student Directory

Research Interests

• Indigeneity, mixed-race identity, Uchinānchu identity 
• Settler vs non-settler colonialism, Japanese empire, internal colonization, assimilation policy in Japan, naichi(内地) vs. gaichi(外地)  
• International governing bodies, United Nations recommendations, UN representation

Biography, Education and Training

B.A., Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and History, University of California, Santa Cruz

Archiving Intern, United States Peace Corps, Office of General Counsel 

Honors, Awards and Grants

• Thom Gentle Endowment for History 2020 
• Graduate Student Association Research and Travel Grant 2019
• History Department Summer Research Funding 2019
• Institute for Humanities Research: Humanities Undergraduate Research Award    
• Chancellor's Undergraduate Intern (CUIP) for the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories

Selected Presentations

• "Uchinānchu Indigeneity in a "Homogenous" Japan: The Marines, the United Nations, and the Rise of Denny," Harvard Graduate Conference in International History- Militarization: Methods, Approaches, and New Directions (2019) 
• "Champuru Conversations as Multinational Dialogue," Oral History Association Annual Conference (2019) 
• "An Okinawan-American Dialogue," American Historical Association Annual Conference (2018)
• "Systematizing Obedience: Assimilation through Tattoo Bans in the Japanese Empire," UCSC Digital Humanities Symposium (2017)

Teaching Interests

TA Experience:

History 41- The Making of the Modern Middle East (Fall 2018)

History 80Y- World War Two Memories of the United States and Japan (Winter 2019)

History 167B- The Second World War in Europe (Spring 2019) 

History 150A- Ancient Japan: Emperors and Outcasts (Fall 2019)