Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century

Contributors

CONTRIBUTORS NORIKO ASATO is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sheisworkingon abookon the Japaneselanguageschool controversy in Hawaii and the contiguous United States from 1919 to 1927. MICHIKO MIDGE AYUKAWA, born inVancouver, BritishColumbia,wasincarceratedfor four yearsduringWorldWar II inaSlocan Valleycamp for JapaneseCanadians . Aformer chemist,Ayukawaobtained adoctorate inhistory in 1997 at the University ofVictoria. She has written numerous articles on Japanese Canadians and is co-author of "'The Japanese," in The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples, ed. Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Toronto Press, 1999). ROGER DANIELS, Charles Phelps Taft professor emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati, has published widely on Asian American and immigration topics. Hismost recentbook is GuardingtheGolden Door:American Immigration Policy and Immigrants since 1882 (Hill and Wang, 2004). GAIL LEE DUBROW is a professor in the College ofArchitecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington and serves as associate dean for acadetnic programsin the graduateschool She istheauthorofSento atSixth andMain: PreservingLandmarksof/apaneseAmerican Heritage (SeattleArts Commission, 2002). LOUIS FISET is the author of Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence ofan Issei Couple (University ofWashington Press, 1997) and is currently at work on a history of the Puyallup Assembly Center and on a bookfocusing on healthcareinthe WorldWar II internmentcamps, assembly centers, and relocation centers. 336 CONTRIBUTORS ANDREA GEIGER-ADAMS is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Washington, studying Meiji-era Japanese immigrants in the North American West, includingboth Canadaand the United States. Shegraduated from the University ofWashington LawSchool in 1991 and is a former editor-inchief of the Washington Law Review. ARTHUR A. HANSEN is emeritus professor of History and Asian American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, where he directs the Center for Oral and Public History and its Japanese American Project. He is also senior historian at the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles. JAMES A. HIRABAYASHI is the chief program advisor at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. He is professor emeritusofAnthropologyand EthnicStudiesat San Francisco State University, where he served as dean ofthe nation's first SchoolofEthnic Studies. He has also held research and teaching positions at the University ofTokyo, Japan, and Amadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria. MASUMI IZUMI is associate professor in the Institute of Language and Culture at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. She has studied and published on the postwar political and cultural activities of Japanese Canadians and Japanese Americans. ERIC L. MULLER is the George R. Ward professor at the University of North Carolina SchoolofLawin Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and worked for a New York law firm and as an assistant U.S. attorney in Newark, New Jersey, before entering academia. He is the author of Free to Diefor Their Country: The Story oftheJapanese American Draft Resisters in World War II (University of Chicago Press, 2001). GAIL M. NOMURA is assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies and adjunct assistant professor of History and Women's Studies at the UniversityofWashington . She is the co-editor (with ShirleyHune) ofAsian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology (New York University Press, 2003) and is completing a book on the prewar history of Japanese Americans on the Yakama Indian Reservation. She is a past presidentof the Association for Asian American Studies. CONTRIBUTORS 337 PATRICIA E. ROY teaches Canadian historyat the UniversityofVictoria,Victoria , BritishColumbia. She istheauthorofA White Man:S Province: British Columbia Politiciansand ChineseandJapaneseImmigrants,18s8-1914 (University of British Columbia Press, 1989) and The Oriental Question: Consolidatinga White Man's Province, 1914-41 (University ofBritish Columbia Press, 2003). ROBERT C. SIMS is professor emeritus of history at Boise State University. He began teaching there in 1970; for ten years, he was dean of the College ofSocialSciencesandPublicAffairs. He servesasanadvisor to the National Park Service on the Minidoka Internment National Monument. ...