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Anna Pegler-Gordon

Professor, Michigan State University

CONTACT INFORMATION

gordonap@msu.edu

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Consultations for Documentaries, Educational Workshops, Interviews, Non-Academic Public Talks

Anna Pegler-Gordon

Professor, Michigan State University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Detention and Deportation, East Asian Migration, Government Agencies (INS, DHS), Immigration During the 20th Century, Nativism and Xenophobia, Race and Ethnicity

AREAS OF TEACHING

Asian American History, Immigration History, Immigration Policy, Racial and Ethnic History, Visual Culture

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

Legal Advocacy, Media Engagement, Museums and Exhibitions, Public Talks

BIO

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EXTENDED PROFILE

Anna Pegler-Gordon teaches in Michigan State University’s Asian Pacific American Studies program and in James Madison College, an undergraduate residential college specializing in the interdisciplinary study of public affairs and public policy. She is the author of In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy (University of California Press, 2009) which explores how, as immigration restrictions were introduced in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, they involved new requirements for photographing and documenting immigrants. Starting with Chinese, then extending to Mexican border crossers and European immigrants, these visual underpinned expanding immigration restrictions. Pegler-Gordon’s second book project, Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island (University of North Carolina Press, 2021), challenges the familiar representation of Ellis Island as a welcoming immigrant gateway. Instead, it explores Ellis Island as a major site of immigrant detention and exclusion, especially for Chinese, Japanese, and other Asian travelers and maritime laborers who reached New York City from Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean, and from within the United States. Especially from 1924 to 1954, Ellis Island functioned as a detention and deportation center, including as an internment camp for Japanese New Yorkers during World War II.

Pegler-Gordon is currently working on two new projects related to Asian Americans during World War II. The first is a study of Japanese American resistance to wartime curfew restrictions, particularly among Japanese American youth and women. The second project explores changing visual representations of Chinese and Chinese Americans by the US government and Chinese Americans themselves during the Sino-Japanese War. She also works with undergraduate students on publishing their research, including a story map about “Asian Americans in Michigan” (2019) and What Kind of Justice? Oral Histories about Vincent Chin, Forty Years Later, a collaboratively edited volume of oral histories about Vincent Chin’s murder with interpretive essays (2022).

Pegler-Gordon is the past director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program and the Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Teaching Fellowship Program at Michigan State University. Prior to her teaching career, she worked museums, and she continues to stay engaged in the fields of public history and K-12 history teaching.

AWARDS

MSU Asian Pacific American Students Association Faculty and Staff Award; MSU Teacher-Scholar Award; In Sight of America (2009): Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Prize; Outstanding Academic Title, American Library Association

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