Dr. Eiichiro Azuma

Biography

Eiichiro Azuma is the Roy F. Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Asian American history, particularly the Japanese American experience, migration, diaspora, settler colonialism, U.S.-Japanese imperialism, and the role of colonial Taiwan in transimperial history. Azuma earned his M.A. in Asian American Studies in 1992 and his Ph.D. in history in 2000 from the University of California, Los Angeles. He began teaching at Penn in January 2001 and has held several prestigious fellowships, including the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Chair in History and the Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellowship at the University of Texas, Austin. In addition to his teaching contributions, Azuma has authored and co-edited several significant publications in American history, particularly focusing on Japanese American narratives. His publication "In Search of the Frontier: Japanese America Settler Colonialism and the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire" received the 2020 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History. He has also served in editorial capacities for various academic journals and book series and has been involved in professional organizations such as the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.

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