Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985

Research Interests

Publications

Guest Editor, Amerasia Journal 26:1 (2000) special issue, “Histories and Historians in the Making.”Over the Edge: Remapping The American West, co-edited with Blake Allmendinger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)”Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community,” Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork, ed. Diane L. Wolf (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)”Redefining Expectations: Nisei Women in the 1930s,” California History (Spring 1994): 44-53, 88.Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)”Desperately Seeking ‘Deirdre’: Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930s,” Frontiers 12, No. 1 (1991): 19-32.”Ja

Books

• City Girls:  The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 (NY:  Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993)

Anthology

• Over the Edge: Remapping The American West, co-edited with Blake Allmendinger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999)

Selected Essays

• “Sansei Women and the Gendering of Yellow Power in Southern California, 1960s-1970s,” Transpacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations, eds. Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2016), pp.183-209.
• “Apple Pie and Makizushi: Japanese American Women Sustaining Family and Community,” Eating Asian America, A Food Studies Reader, eds. Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin Manalansan IV, and Anita Mannur (NY: New York University Press, 2013), pp.255-73.
• “Pioneers, Renegades, and Visionaries: Asian American Women Artists in California, 1890s-1960s,” Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, eds. Mark D. Johnson, Gordon Chang, and Paul Karlstrom (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008), pp.169-99.
• Guest Editor, Amerasia Journal 26:1 (2000) special issue, “Histories and Historians in the Making.”
• “Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community,” Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork, ed. Diane L. Wolf (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996)
• “Redefining Expectations: Nisei Women in the 1930s,” California History (Spring 1994): 44-53, 88.
• “Desperately Seeking ‘Deirdre’: Gender Roles, Multicultural Relations, and Nisei Women Writers of the 1930s,” Frontiers 12, No. 1 (1991): 19-32.
• “Japanese American Women During World War II,” Frontiers 8, No. 1 (1984): 6-14.

Awards

• George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community, appointed July 2017.
• Award for Excellence in Graduate Mentoring and Teaching, UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association, 2013 and 2007.
• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 2007.
• Toshio and Doris Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Award, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006.