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Gary Okihiro
Hamilton Hall, Room 422
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Phone: 212-854-0508
gyo3@columbia.edu
Biography:
Gary Y. Okihiro is a professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
His research interests are Asian American studies and southern Africa. He is the author of eight books in U.S. and African histories, most recently of Impounded: Dorothea Lange And The Censored Images Of Japanese American Internment (2006), The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (Columbia 2001) and Common Ground: Reimagining American History (Princeton 2001). Others include A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century (Edwin Mellen Press 2000), Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II (University of Washington 1996), and Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture (University of Washington 1994).
Professor Okihiro received a PhD in history from University of California, Los Angeles, in 1976.
He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies.