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Recent PhD graduate Eddie Bonilla has been named a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 2019-2020 academic year.  The fellowship provides junior scholars the opportunity to spend a year at the Department of Latina/Latino Studies to… Continue Reading Bonilla Wins Postdoc

Sidney Lu’s article, ” Eastward Ho! Japanese Settler Colonialism in Hokkaido and the Making of Japanese Migration to the American West, 1869–1888,” has been published by the Journal of Asian Studies. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/eastward-ho-japanese-settler-colonialism-in-hokkaido-and-the-making-of-japanese-migration-to-the-american-west-18691888/540D1FCAC210EBAC61BE93712B01A6AB

Lewis Siegelbaum has published a featured review in The American Historical Review. Here is the relevant information: Claire L. Shaw. Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991. . Deaf in the USSR: Marginality, Community, and Soviet Identity, 1917–1991. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press, … Continue Reading Siegelbaum Featured in AHR

Fourth year PhD candidate Ramya Swayamprakash was invited to participate in a symposium, ON EDGE: Mediating Cultural Borders, at the University of Windsor on May 23 where she presented a paper—”Borderlands as Infrastructurescapes: Rethinking political borders.” Additionally on May 29-30, she will be participating in… Continue Reading Swayamprakash Presents Papers

Dr. Charles Keith will be giving two talks at Peking University in Beijing. The first, “Indochina in France: Metropolitan Migrations and the Making of Modern Vietnam” is on May 27th, and the second, “Catholicism in Vietnam from Imperialism to Independence” is on May 28th.