Eiichiro Azuma
Eiichiro Azuma | |
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| Born | September 27, 1966 Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of California at Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, professor, scholar, writer |
| Known for | History of Japanese Americans |
Eiichiro Azuma (born 27 September 1966) is a
Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.[2] The focus of his work is Japanese Americans in relationship to migration, Japanese colonialism, and U.S. and Japan relations.[2][3]
Biography
Eiichiro Azuma was born 27 September 1966 in
University of California at Los Angeles with an M.A. degree in Asian American Studies (1992), and a Ph.D. in history (2000).[4]
He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since January 2001.[5] Starting in fall 2009, he held the position of Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Chair in history.[2] Azuma served as the director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania from 2013 through 2018.[6]
His work appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Historical Review and Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Reviews in American History.[7] He is co-editor of the Asian American Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press."[8]
Awards
- 2006 Frederick Jackson Turner Award Honorable Mention by the Organization of American Historians, for Between Two Empires
- 2008–2009, he was also a recipient of the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship from the University of Texas, Austin
- 2020 John K. Fairbanks Prize in East Asian history, from the American Historical Association, for his work In Search of Our Frontier[9]
- Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, for Between Two Empires
- History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, for Between Two Empires
- Hiroshi Shimizu book prize from the Japanese Association of American Studies, for Between Two Empires
- History Book Award Honorable Mention from the Association for Asian American Studies, for Before Internment
Publications
Books
- Azuma, Eiichiro (1992). Walnut Grove: Japanese Farm Community in the Sacramento River Delta, 1892–1942 (dissertation). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 27448287.
- Akemi Kikumura-Yano, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of Japanese descendants in the Americas: an illustrated history of the Nikkei. Compiled by Brian Niiya, Michieo Kodama-Nishimoto, Eiichiro Azuma. Rowman Altamira. ISBN 978-0-7591-0149-4.
- Azuma, Eiichiro (2005). Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195159400.
- Yuji Ichioka (2006). Gordon H. Chang; Eiichiro Azuma (eds.). Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (Stanford University Press, 2006. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-5147-6.
Eiichiro Azuma.
- Takezawa, Yasuko; Okihiro, Gary Y., eds. (2016). Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations. Eiichiro Azuma (contributor), ISBN 978-0824847586.
- Azuma, Eiichiro (2019). In Search of Our Frontier Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan's Borderless Empire. Volume 17 of Asia Pacific Modern. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520304383.[10]
References
- ^ Ginsburg, Thomas. "Internment unlikely, most experts agree." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 30, 2001, p. 68 (subscription required).
- ^ Densho Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- ^ "Eiichiro Azuma" (biography). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Penn Arts & Sciences, Department of History, retrieved online February 21, 2023.
- ^ "Eiichiro Azuma," Penn Arts & Sciences, Department of History.
- ^ "Eiichiro Azuma". Department of History, University of Pennsylvania. Archived from the original on 2010-01-12. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
- ^ "Eiichiro Azuma," Penn Arts & Sciences, Department of History.
- Project MUSE.
- ^ Eiichiro Azuma," Penn Arts & Sciences, Department of History.
- ^ "Hoover Visiting Fellow Eiichiro Azuma Awarded History Prize". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
- S2CID 236898641.
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