Eiichiro Azuma

Eiichiro Azuma (born 27 September 1966 in Tokyo) is an American historian, and Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania .

Life

He graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with an M.A. (1992), and a Ph.D.

He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since January 2001.^[1]

His work appeared in the Journal of American History, Journal of Asian Studies, Pacific Historical Review and Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Reviews in American History.^[2] He is co-editor of the Asian American Studies book series at the University of Illinois Press.

Awards

• Fall 2009, Azuma has held the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Chair in History
• 2008-2009, he was also a recipient of the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship from the University of Texas, Austin
• Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, for Between Two Empires
• 2006 Frederick Jackson Turner Award Honorable Mention by the Organization of American Historians, 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

Bibliography

• Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-19-515940-0. 
• 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. 
• 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. 

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