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Lon Kurashige
Associate Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity
Contact Information
E-mail:
kurashig@usc.edu
Phone: (213)740-1666
Office: SOS 264
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Education
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B.A. History of Public Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara, 6/1986
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M.A. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 12/1990
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Ph.D. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 12/1994
Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
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Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 9/1/2001-
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Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 1/1/1995-8/31/2001
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Kurashige studies racial ideologies, politics of identity, emigration/immigration, historiography, cultural enactments, and social reproduction, particularly as they pertain to Asians in the United States.
Research Specialties
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994) Associate Professor of History and ASE: Asian-American history; Japanese American; ethnic identity politics.
Publications
Book
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(2002).
Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990/University of California Press.
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Kurashige, L. Y., Yang Murray, A.
(2002).
Major Problems in Asian American History. Boston and New York: Major Problems in Asian American History/Houghton Mifflin.
Book Chapter
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(2004).
“Universalism and Particularism in Asian American Studies: Towards a Historiography”. pp. p. 21-35. Kyoto University, Japan: New Wave: Studies on Japanese Americans in the 21st Century/Institute for Research in Humanities.
Journal Article
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(2002).
“Social History and the Multicultural Turn". Reviews in American History 30, 3/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 355-364.
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(2001).
“Agency, Resistance, and Manzanar Protest". Pacific Historical Review 70, 3/University of California Press. pp. p. 387-418.
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(2000).
“The Problem of Biculturalism: Japanese American Identity and Festival Before World War II”. Journal of American History 86, 4/Organization of American Historians. pp. p. 1632-1654.
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Kurashige, L. Y.
(1996).
“The Protestant and the Catholic: Dimensions of Asian American History. Reviews in American History 24, 4/Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. p. 663-667.
Honors and Awards
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USC Innovative Teaching Award, 2005-2006
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Fulbright Award, 2003-2004
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Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Fellowship, 1997
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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Recipient, 1997
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