Graduate Student Directory

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)