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B.A. in History and French, Pomona College, 2017.
M.A. in History, Georgetown University, 2019.
Ph.D in History, UC Santa Cruz, 2024.
I am a specialist in 20th century U.S. political history and social history. I write primarily on the history of Asian Americans in the U.S., with a partiuclar focus on Japanese Americans. My dissertation is on the role of Congress in the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.
-History of the Federal Government
-History of Congress
-Asian American History
-Japanese American History
-History of the U.S. West.
-Transnational History
-History of Pacific Migration
-History of Race and the Federal Government
-Japanese American History
-The New Deal and the West
2023 UCLA James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship
2023 Past Wrongs, Future Choices Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria. Funded by SSHRC.
2022-2023 UCSC Humanities Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2022 Bancroft Library Friends of the Bancroft Fellowship
2022 Public Humanities Fellowship, The Humanities Institute
2022 Summer Research Grant, The Humanities Institute
2022 Harry S. Truman Library Research Grant
2021 SSRC-DPD Grant, The Humanities Institute
2021 UCSC History Department Summer Funding
2020 UCSC History Department Summer Funding
2020 AHA Dorothy Rosenberg Phi Beta Kappa Grant
2019 – 2020 UCSC Chancellor’s Fellowship
Association of Asian American Studies, April 15, 2022.
Paper Presentation – “Shuji Fujii and Kikue Ukai Fujii – Japanese American Communists.”
Association of Asian American Studies, April 8, 2021.
Paper Presentation - “Soewapadji v. Wixon and the Unknown History of Indonesian Americans"
Society of Historians on American Foreign Relations (Cancelled due to COVID-19), June 20, 2020.
Paper Presentation - “The Western Film and the Philippine-American War: Memories of Empire.”
Association of Asian American Studies (Cancelled due to COVID-19), April 11, 2020.
Paper Presentation - “Indonesians Sailors at Crystal City.”
American Historical Association, January 3, 2020.
Paper Presentation - “Brother Theophane Walsh, the Maryknoll Community, and Japanese American Incarceration”
Society of Historians on American Foreign Relations, June 21, 2019.
Roundtable - “American Empire in Retrospect.”
Association of Asian American Studies, April 26, 2019.
Roundtable - “Rabbit in the Moon and Conscience and the Constitution 20 Years Later: A Perspective”
“Lessons from a Different Shore: Portrayals of Japanese American Incarceration and The Redress Movement by Western European Newspapers.” Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol 12, no. 1, (Fall 2021). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/58b9360h
“Historiography of Japanese Americans in Urban History.” Journal of Urban History, vol. 47, no. 5 (September, 2021), 1155- 1160. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0096144220944516
“The Scientist and the Shrub: Manzanar’s Guayule Project and Incarcerated Japanese American Scientists.” Southern California Quarterly, vol. 103, no. 1 (Spring, 2021), 61 - 98. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/443/article/858354/pdf
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