Profile

Lon Kurashige is professor of history and spatial sciences at the University of Southern California. He studies racial ideologies, politics of identity, emigration/immigration, historiography, cultural enactments and social reproduction, particularly as they pertain to Asians in the United States.

He is the author of Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016); Pacific America: Empires, Migrations, and Exchanges, co-edited with Madeline Hsu (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016); Major Problems in Asian American History, 2nd edition, co-edited with Alice Yang...

Education

Ph.D., American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A., American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
B.A., History of Public Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara