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Michael Jin
Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History, University of Illinois Chicago
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Michael Jin
Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History, University of Illinois Chicago
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
East Asian Migration, Family and Child Migration, Immigration During the 20th Century, Immigration During the 21st Century, Nativism and Xenophobia, North American Migration, Race and Ethnicity
AREAS OF TEACHING
Im/migration and Diasporas, Asian American History, American West, Transnational Asia and the Pacific Rim World, Historical Memory
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BIO
Michael R. Jin is an Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is also a member of the UIC Diaspora Studies Cluster. His areas of specialization include migration and diaspora studies, Asian American history, critical race and ethnic studies, transnational Asia and the Pacific Rim world, and the history of the American West.
Jin’s interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on human migration and racial formation in diverse temporal, spatial, and linguistic contexts that push the boundaries of U.S.-based ethnic studies, area studies, and the studies of global diasporas. His first book, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific, uncovers the history of U.S.-born Japanese Americans who migrated to the Japanese empire in Asia and drew the American West into the larger histories of nations and empires in the Pacific world. His current project, based on multilingual and transnational research in South Korea, Japan, and the United States, documents the experiences of diasporic Koreans who survived the nuclear holocaust in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. His next book project explores the twentieth-century transnational circuits of change across Iran, South Korea, and the United States that converged in the connected lives of Iranian and Korean migrants in global diasporas.
He has worked with the Newberry Teachers’ Consortium, the National Japanese American Historical Society, the Organization of American Historians, and other organizations to develop curriculum building and teacher education programs focusing on ethnic studies and Asian American history for K-12 teachers. He has served in the Advisory Group to the Illinois State Board of Education in support of the implementation of the 2021 Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act, which made Illinois the first state to require the teaching of Asian American history in public schools.
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