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Department of American Studies College of Arts and Sciences
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Karen M. Inouye

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Department of American Studies

Office: Ballantine Hall 526
E-mail: kinouye at indiana.edu

Education

Ph.D., American Studies, Brown University, 2008

Research Interests

  • Comparative Ethnic History
  • Asian American Studies
  • 20th Century American History

Publications

Book-Length Work

  • The Long Afterlife of World War Two Incarceration, 1942-2011 (manuscript in preparation)

Essays/Articles

  • "Japanese American Wartime Experience, Tamotsu Shibutani and Methodological Innovation, 1935 - 1978," The Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (forthcoming, 2012)
  • "Viewing World War Two Internment through Emiko Omori's Rabbit in the Moon," The Journal of American Ethnic History, 30:4 (Summer 2011)

Shorter Items

  • Book Review: Claiming the Oriental Gateway: Prewar Seattle and Japanese America by Shelly Lee (Temple University Press, 2010) in The Journal of American History (solicited; forthcoming).
  • Book Review: Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress by Alice Yang Murray (Stanford University Press, 2005) in American Historical Review 115:2 (April 2010)
  • "Rose Hum Lee, Chinese American Sociologist (1904-1964)," American Women's History: An Encyclopedia (forthcoming, 2011)
  • "Norman Mineta," Great Lives from History: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders (forthcoming)

Courses Recently Taught

  • What is America?
  • Playing with Difference: Popular Cultures of Asia in America
  • Race and Labor from World War Two and Beyond
  • The Nature and Value of Civil Liberties During Times of Crisis
  • What Is Asian America?

Honors and Awards

  • Active Learning Grant, Indiana University Bloomington, Summer 2011
  • Summer Faculty Fellowship, Indiana University, 2011
  • Dissertation Fellow, Center for Race and Ethnicity, Brown University, Fall 2004-Spring 2007
  • Brown University Fellowship, Summer 2005
  • Brown University Fellowship, Summer 2004
  • Graduate Scholarship, Brown University Committee on Slavery and Justice, Summer 2004
  • Brown University Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2003-Spring 2004
  • Minoru Yasui Memorial Graduate Scholarship, Fall 2002

National Service

  • N.E.H. Grant Reviewer, March 2011
  • Ethnic Studies Committee, American Studies Association, 2009-Present