Join us in Congratulating Professor Ikuko Asaka who was just named as a Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Scholar.
Ikuko Asaka
Assistant Professor
Biography
I am a historian of the United States with an emphasis on the nineteenth-century United States, African American history, women, gender and sexuality, and empire. Trained in U.S. and Japanese institutions, I have always taken comparative and transnational approaches in my study of history. In all of my work, I explore how race and its related processes—class, gender, and sexuality—organized and were organized by global structures and circumstances as well as by systems of exclusion and inclusion at national, colonial, and imperial levels.
Research Interests
- Nineteenth-Century U.S.
- Women, Gender, Sexuality
- African American History
- U.S. Expansionism/U.S. in the World
- Atlantic/Pacific Studies
Education
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gender and Women's History Program, 2010
Distinctions / Awards
- Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Award, 2016-18
- ACLS New Faculty Fellowship, Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey, 2012-13
Courses
- HIST275 African American History to 1877
- HIST285 History of Gender in the United States
- HIST385 Transnational Sexualities
- HIST482 Slavery in the United States
- HIST570 Race, Gender, and Sexuality in North American Colonialisms
