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Hidetaka Hirota

ヒロタ ヒデタカ | Hidetaka Hirota
Research field  (3): History - Europe/America ,  History - General ,  Local studies
Research keywords  (17): North American Studies ,  American History ,  Immigration History ,  Social History ,  Legal History ,  American Studies ,  Irish Studies ,  Pacific History ,  Labor History ,  Political Economy ,  History of Capitalism ,  Migration ,  Transnational History ,  Global History ,  Atlantic History ,  Race ,  Ethnicity
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (1):
  • 2020 - 2022 Foreign Contract Labor and the Formation of Federal Immigration Policy in the United States
Papers (8):
  • Limits of Intolerance: Nativism and Immigration Control in Nineteenth-Century New York. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 2020
  • Hidetaka Hirota, Nando Sigona, Nobuko Nagai. Migration to and from Japan and Great Britain to 1945. IRiS Working Paper Series. 2019. 33/2019
  • Hidetaka Hirota. Exclusion on the Ground: Racism, Official Discretion, and the Quotidian Enforcement of General Immigration Law in the Pacific Northwest Borderland. AMERICAN QUARTERLY. 2017. 69. 2. 347-370
  • Hidekaka Hirota. The International Migration of the Irish Poor,” in Forum: Transnational Entanglements in American History, Historical Journal. Historical Journal. 2016. 792. 19-32
  • Hidekaka Hirota. In the Name of Self Defense: The Expulsion of Foreign Paupers and Nineteenth-Century American Immigration Policy. American Review. 2014. 48. 48. 99-117
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MISC (23):
  • Hidetaka Hirota. Book Review of Mae Ngai, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics. Journal of the Civil War Era. 2022
  • Hidetaka Hirota. The Disturbing Precedent for Busing Migrants to Other States. The Washington Post. 2022
  • Book Review of Ashley Johnson Bavery, Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America’s Northern Border. Journal of Social History. 2021
  • Hidekaka Hirota. The Danger of Vilifying Poor Immigrants. The Washington Post. 2019
  • Hidekaka Hirota. Katherine Benton-Cohen, Inventing the Immigration Problem: The Dillingham Commission and Its Legacy. Journal of Social History. 2019
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Books (5):
  • The American Yawp: A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook
    Stanford University Press 2019
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
    Oxford University Press 2019
  • Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
    Oxford University Press 2017 ISBN:9780190619213
  • Multicultural America
    SAGE 2013
  • The Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America
    M.E. Sharpe 2010
Lectures and oral presentations  (93):
  • The Transnational Business, Racial Politics, and Diplomacy of Japanese Border Crossing in North America
    (Annual Lecture Series, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto 2022)
  • The Influence of the Alien Contract Labor Law on the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy
    (CSLS Speaker Series, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley 2022)
  • Researching Legal History: A Case of United States History
    (Institute of American and Canadian Studies, Sophia University, 2022)
  • Roundtable on Migration
    (Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2022)
  • Japanese Immigrants, Trachoma, and US Border Control
    (Legal Histories of Disease Conference, Center for Law and History, Stanford University 2022)
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Education (2):
  • 2005 - 2012 Boston College Department of History
  • 2000 - 2005 Sophia University Faculty of Foreign Studies Department of English Studies
Professional career (3):
  • 学士(外国研究) (上智大学)
  • M.A. in History (Boston College)
  • Ph.D. in History (Boston College)
Awards (53):
  • 2021/04 - Irish Association for American Studies, Honorable Mention for the Peggy O’Brien Book Prize
  • 2020/06/23 - Mitsubishi Foundation Research Grant in the Humanities
  • 2020 - Sophia University Grant for the Dissemination of Individual Research Outcome
  • 2020 - Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists
  • 2019/04 - Waseda University Faculty Grant for Early Career Researchers
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Association Membership(s) (9):
Society of Civil War Historians ,  Association for Asian American Studies ,  SOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS ,  IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY SOCIETY ,  AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION ,  ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ,  AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ,  THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN HISTORY ,  JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
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