Professor of History
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, 1983

Fields:

• Twentieth-Century American Social and Cultural History -- race, migration, religion.
• Asian American Studies
  
• African American Studies
  
• Pacific Islander American Studies
  
• Comparative Ethnic Studies
  
• Ethnicity and Multiethnicity
  
• World History
  

Major publications:

• A Global History of Christians: How Everyday Believers Experienced Their World, with Kevin
  M. Cragg (2001)
• We Are A People: Narrative and Multiplicity in the Construction of Ethnic Identity edited with Jeffrey Burroughs (2000)
  
• World History by the World's Historians edited with James V. Spickard and Kevin M. Cragg (1997)
  
• Japanese Americans: The Formation and Transformations of an Ethnic Group (1996)
  
• Pacific Island Peoples in Hawai'i (1994)
  
• Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in 20th-Century America (l989)
  

Recent Articles:

• "Who Is an Asian" Who Is a Pacific Islander? Monoracialism, Multiracial People, and Asian American Communities," in The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001)
  
• "The Subject is Mixed Race: The Boom in Biracial Biography," in Rethinking 'Mixed Race', edited by David Parker and Miri Song (London: Pluto Press, 2001), 76-98
  
• "Fire in the Night: A Racial Hate Crime and Historical Memory," Southern California Quarterly, 82.3 (2000), 291-304
  
• "It's the World's History: Decolonizing Historiography and the History of Christianity," Fides et Historia, 31.2 (1999), 13-29
  
• "Not Just the Quiet People: The Nisei Underclass," Pacific Historical Review (1999), 78-94

Due out soon:

• Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America, edited with Jane Naomi Iwamura (New York: Routledge)
  
• Pacific Diaspora: Readings on Pacific Islander Americans, edited with Joanne Rondilla and Debbie Hippolite Wright (Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press)
  
• Uncompleted Independence: Creating and Revising Racial Thinking in the United States, edited with G. Reginald Daniel (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press)
  

Current Research:

• Uncompleted Independence: The Creation and Revision of American Racial Thinking
  
  

Awards and Honors:

• Outstanding Book on Human Rights Award, Gustavus Myers Center for Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in 20th-Century America
  
• Named one of nine Terrific Teachers by Kiosk UCSB Student Handbook
  
  

Courses:

• Asian American Studies 1 -- History of Asian Americans to 1965
  
• Asian American Studies 2 -- History of Asian Americans since 1965
  
• Asian American Studies 137 -- Multiethnic Asian Americans
  
• Asian American Studies 150 -- Pacific Islander Americans
  
• History 164IA -- US Immigration to 1924
  
• History 164IB -- US Immigration since 1924
  
• History 164P -- Proseminar in Immigration History
  
• History 189E -- History of the Pacific
  
• History 200W -- World Historical Literature
  
• History 201AM -- Race and Ethnicity in US History and Comparative Perspective

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