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J-GLOBAL ID:200901097866690202   Update date: Aug. 21, 2024

Izumi Masumi

イズミ マスミ | Izumi Masumi
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Professor
Research field  (5): Local studies ,  Local studies ,  Local studies ,  History - Europe/America ,  History - Europe/America
Research keywords  (6): Migration Studies ,  Asian American Studies ,  Canadian History ,  American History ,  地域研究(北アメリカ) ,  Area Studies (North America)
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (7):
  • 2021 - 2026 From Mio: Community-based Public History Project
  • 2021 - 2026 From Mio: Community-based Public History Project
  • 2017 - 2020 Trans-local Study on the Japanese Canadian Returnees and Deportees who Settled in Japan
  • 2013 - 2018 Transnational Mobility and Occupations of Overseas Japanese in the Pacific Rim
  • 2012 - 2015 Historical Research on Japanese American Internment Camps in Arizona, U.S.A.
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Papers (25):
  • Matt James, Jessica Fernández de, Lara Harada, Masumi Izumi, Monica Okamoto, Jordan Stanger-Ross. Separate National Apologies, Transnational Injustices: Second World War Oppression, Anti-Japanese Persecution, and the Politics of Apology in Five Countries. Global Studies Quarterly. 2022. 2. 4. 1-13
  • Masumi Izumi. Dissecting Asian American History in the Light of the COVID-19 Related Yellow Peril Sentiment. Rikkyo American Studies. 2022. 44. 7-27
  • Masumi Izumi. Asian Americans and the Black Lives Matte Movement. Gendai Shiso, October 2020, Special Issue, "Black Lives Matter". 2020. 299-306
  • Masumi Izumi. The Music of "Yellow Power" and After : Nobuko Miyamoto's Community Activism and Changes in Her Music. Doshisha Global and Regional Studies review : The journal of the Doshisha Society for Global and Regional Studies. 2019. 12. 101-132
  • Masumi Izumi. Gila River Concentration Camp and the Historical Memory of Japanese American Concentration Camp. Japanese Journal of American Studies. 2018. 29. 67-87
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MISC (44):
  • Masumi Izumi, Nobuko Miyamoto. <Author's Book Talk, Interpretation>Not Yo’ Butterfly: Migration, Race, Love, and Revolution - My Long Song of "Japanese America" (Doshisha University, Group Research Project, "Transient Subjects/Unsettled Settlers," International Center for American Studies). 2023
  • Masumi Izumi. <Movie and Director's Talk>Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi," Nanzan University, Nagoya. 2023
  • Masumi Izumi. <Movie and Director's Talk>Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (University of Kitakyushu, Kokura). 2023
  • Masumi Izumi. <Movie and Director's Talk>Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo). 2023
  • Masumi Izumi. <Movie and Director's Talk>Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, dir., "100 Years from Mississippi" (Group Research Project 3 "Transient Subjects/Unsettled Settlers," International Center for American Studies, Doshisha University. 2023
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Books (23):
  • <Translation>Nobuko Miyamoto, Not Yo' Butterfly: My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (University of California Press, 2021)
    Takanashi Shobo 2023 ISBN:9784867800300
  • When We Raise Our Voices: 10 Questions that Changed America
    Shueisha 2022 ISBN:9784087212181
  • American History in Resistance to “Hate”: Reconsidering the Majority
    Sairyusha 2022 ISBN:9784779128264
  • Migration of Clothing, Food and Housing I: What do People Eat?
    Tokyo:Bunrikaku 2022 ISBN:9784892599057
  • Unpredictable Agents : The Making of Japan's Americanists during the Cold War and beyond
    University of Hawai'i Press 2021 ISBN:9780824888848
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Lectures and oral presentations  (111):
  • <Public Lecture>"Development of the Vancouver Japan Town and the Emigrants from Shiga," (Lecture Series on Japanese Canadian History, Shiga Peace Museum, Yokaichi, Shiga), 2023.11.18
    (Lecture Series on the "Broken Promises" Exhibition, Shiga Peace Museum, Yokaichi, Shiga 2023)
  • Japanese American Spirituality in the Tule Lake Stockade: Soul Searching of a Kibei-Nisei Judo Practitioner
    (American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, QE, Canada 2023)
  • The Effectiveness and Limitation of the Concept of "Settler Colonialism": Re-considering Japanese North American Wartime Removal from the Relationship with the Indigenous Peoples
    (Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for American History 2023)
  • International Research Collaboration Project in Canada on the History of Overseas Ethnic Japanese
    (Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Canadian Studies 2023)
  • Transcultural Reading of the Tule Lake Stockade Diary: The Alienation of the Body, Mind, and Soul of a Kibei/Nisei Prisoner
    ("Intersections and Relations: Asian American Studies in Global Frames” Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 2023)
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Works (6):
  • Translation of “Tule Lake Stockade Diary, November 13, 1943 - February 14, 1944 by Tatsuo Inouye,” Public web material for the Suyama Project. Asian American Studies Center, University of California Los Angles. <http://www.suyamaproject.org/?p=721>
    2018 -
  • Concert Producer of The Triangle Project: Journey of the Dandelion, a multicultural performance piece by Nobuko Miyamoto (Great Leap, Los Angeles), PJ Hirabayashi (San Jose Taiko), Yoko Fujimoto (KODO, Japan), Doshisha University, November 19.
    2014 -
  • Translator and coordinator for the American referee in the Fourth Tokyo International Taiko Drumming Contest, Tokyo, October 15-16
    2005 - 2005
  • Translator and documentarian for The Triangle Project: Journey of the Dandelion, a multicultural performance piece by Nobuko Miyamoto (Great Leap, Los Angeles), PJ Hirabayashi (San Jose Taiko), Yoko Fujimoto (KODO, Japan) produced by Great Leap and San Jose Taiko.
    2004 - 2005
  • Assistant and documentarian for To All Relations Projects, multicultural story-telling workshops for peace, organized by Nobuko Miyamoto (Great Leap, Los Angeles).
    2004 - 2005
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Education (4):
  • 1995 - 2000 Doshisha University Graduate School of American Studies Ph.D Program
  • 1997 - 1998 University of Victoria Department of History, Faculty of Graduate Studies
  • 1988 - 1990 Queen's University at Kingston Department of Political Studies, School of Graduate Studies and Research MA Program
  • 1984 - 1988 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Language BA Program, Department of Anglo-American Studies
Professional career (2):
  • Doctor of American Studies (Doshisha University)
  • M.A. (Political Studies) (Queen's University)
Work history (8):
  • 2013/04 - 現在 Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University Professor
  • 2022/09 - 2023/03 University of Victoria Centre for Global Studies Visiting Research Fellow
  • 2022/04 - 2022/08 Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan Normal University/Academia Sinica Department of English Visiting Scholar
  • 2011/04 - 2013/03 Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University Professor
  • 2007/04 - 2011/03 Doshisha University Institute for Language and Culture
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Committee career (7):
  • 2022/06 - 現在 Past Wrongs Future Choices Co-chair, Archives Cluster, Member of the Governance Board
  • 2016/04 - 2022/06 日本移民学会 理事、共同研究推進委員
  • 2011/04 - 2013/03 アメリカ学会 大会企画委員
  • 2009/11 - 2012/10 American Studies Association Member, International Committee
  • 2005/11 - 2008/10 American Studies Association International Delegate, National Council
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Awards (9):
  • 2021/09 - International Council for Canadian Studies Pierre Savard Award for a Book Written in a language other than French or English The Japanese Canadian Movement: The Little-Known Trans-Pacific History of Japanese Migration and Activism (Tokyo: Takanashi Shobo, 2020), in Japanese.
  • 2020/12 - Association of College and Research Libraries: Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2020. The Rise and Fall of America’s Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates for the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s (Temple University Press, 2019).
  • 2008/10 - American Studies Association: Finalist of the 2008 ASA Yasuo Sakakibara Award. “Dharma Activists: Transnational Connections in Identity and Activism of Japanese American Buddhists,” Oral Presentation at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA., Oct. 18.
  • 1997 - 日本カナダ学会研究奨励賞(佳作)
  • 1997 - Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, Research Award
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Association Membership(s) (10):
Organization of American Historians ,  日本移民学会 ,  日本カナダ学会 ,  日本アメリカ学会 ,  Association for Asian American Studies ,  American Studies Association ,  Japanese Association for Migration Studies ,  Japanese Association for Canadian Studies ,  Japanese Association for American Studies ,  Association for Asian American Studies
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