Brief Research Statement

 

 

 Although my published research listed on my vitae, I thought my students and other scholars might be interested in knowing about my current and future research agenda.

 

I am revising my dissertation, <<Japanese American Community Libraries in America’s Concentration Camps, 1942-1946>> for publication. In addition, I am working on related projects on prewar and wartime Japanese American print culture.  I am also in the early stages of working with Toru Yamada on an Atlas of Nikkei History in the Americas.

 

Within the more traditional areas of Library and Information Studies, I am researching the history of libraries in Hawaii, Asian American librarians, and LIS education. I am also working on a text relating Collection Management to changes in publishing.

 

I welcome exchanges with researchers interested in collaboration on topics of Japanese American history, ethnic print culture history or related topics. I can oversee dissertations or postodoctorates as a member of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Communication and Information Sciences (CIS).

 

For University of Hawaii Ph.D. students in other departments, I am interested to consider requests to serve as an outside committee member on dissertations on Japanese American history, Jewish modern history and literature (in the Diaspora), history of education, literacy, or print culture (journalism, printing, publishing, libraries or reading). I am serving as outside committee members for an MA thesis (French) and a Ph.D. dissertation (Anthropology).

 

Last modified 28 August 2005.