Japanese

Boyd Cothran

Associate Professor, Department of History, York University

Global history; American West; historical memory; Indigenous Peoples; Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Okinawan diaspora

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Mona Oikawa

Associate Professor, Department of Equity Studies, York University

Critical race studies; gender; cultural studies; Japanese Canadians

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Esther Sampson

Master’s student, Communication and Culture, York University and Ryerson University

Cultural artifacts; social semiotics/multimodal discourse analysis; cross-cultural book covers; identity; representation; diaspora; Other; Orientalism; ideologies; culturally Western English translations of Japanese self-help books; self-help book covers

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Yukari Takai

Department of History, York University

Japanese diasporas; transnational migration; global Asia; Japan; United States; Hawai'i; Canada; social history; women, gender, sexuality; race; class; borders and borderlands; marriage; divorce; nineteenth century; twentieth century

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Catherine Umolac

Doctoral Candidate, Graduate Programme in English, York University

Memoir; archive; Japanese Canadians; Jewish Canadians; Indigenous Peoples; residential schools

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