Graduate Student Directory

- Title
- PhD Candidate
- CITL Pedagogy Fellow
- Teaching Assistant
- Division Graduate Studies Division
- Department
- History Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Remote Work Location
- Office Hours Spring 2022: Tuesdays from noon-1pm https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/96890513768?pwd=RHhvd2dRb3pkNFVGcXdzUE9BeUFoZz09
- Mail Stop No Mailstop
Research Interests
- Indigeneity, Shimanchu Indigeneity, mixed-race identity, Shimanchu identity
- The Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa Prefecture
- International governing bodies, the United Nations, UN representation
Biography, Education and Training
B.A., Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and History, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A., History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Executive Team, Co-lead for Curriculum Development: the Okinawa Memories Initiative
Archiving Intern: United States Peace Corps, Office of General Counsel
Honors, Awards and Grants
- United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples grantee 2022
- Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning: Pedagogy Fellowship 2022
- National Endowment for the Humanities Funded Seminar: The Search for Humanity after Atrocity 2021
- Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Program (SSRC DPD) 2021
- National Humanities Center GSSR Fellow 2020
- Thom Gentle Endowment Award for History 2020
- Graduate Student Association Research and Travel Grant 2019
- History Department Summer Research Funding 2019, 2020
- Institute for Humanities Research: Humanities Undergraduate Research Award
- Chancellor's Undergraduate Intern (CUIP) for the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories
Selected Publications
- McClellan-Ufugusuku, Alexyss. "List of Recommended readings," Shimanchu nu Kwii: The Voices of Shimanchu. Vol 1, Issue 2. Spring 2022.
- McClellan-Ufugusuku, Alexyss. "Between a Rock and Two Nation-States: Positing Shimanchu Indigeneity against the Futenma Replacement Facility," The Avery Review. February 2021.
Selected Presentations
Community Presentations:
- World Uchinaanchu Festival "Keeping the Spirit of Uchinaa Alive Youth Panel Session" (Spring 2022)
- Ichariba Chōde podcast "Preserving History" (December 2021)
- Ukwanshin Kabudan Umanchu Suruti online series (October 2021 and May 2020)
Academic Presentations
- "Shimanchu, Okinawan, Ryukyuan, Okinawense? Teach History and memori in the 'Okinawan' islands" Modern Language Association Annual Conference (2022)
- "Roundtable Discussion: Okinawan Diaspora, Academia, and Activism" Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference (2021)
- Panelist: "The Koza Uprising in Global Perspective" The Humanities Institute's Memory lecture series (2020)
- "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)
Selected Recordings
- For the event: The Koza Uprising in Global Perspective (December 2020): https://okinawamemories.org/the-koza-uprising/
Teaching Interests
Teaching certificates:
Pedagogy Fellow: Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (2022)
UPitt World History Center: "Teaching Indigenous History as World History" (2021)
UCSC CITL: "Teaching Disciplinary Writing" (2021)
National Humanities Center: "Passionate Teaching in the Research Environment: Meaningful Onliine Teaching" (2020)
UCSC CITL: "Teaching with Technology" (2019)
TA Assignments:
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)
History 110F- World War USA (Spring 2020)
History 100- Historical Skills and Methods
History 150E- History and Memory in the Okinawan Islands (Fall 2020)
History 2A- World History to 1500 (Winter 2021)
History 82- Global History of the California Gold Rush (Spring 2021)
History 59- History of the English Language (Summer 2021)
History 150A- Ancient Japan: Emperors and Outcasts (Fall 2021)
History 4- History of the Present (Winter 2022)
History 82- Global History of the California Gold Rush (Spring 2022)