Historian of modern Japan + history of technology @ucsantabarbara. Co-director of @bodiesandstruct. Associate Editor @jas_tw + HistTech Series Editor @JHUPress.
Joined August 2018
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I will be standing in solidarity with my students and colleagues in UAW 2865. Fair Bargaining NOW. See you at the picket line! #FairUCNow
[screaming] FIFTY THOUSAND ACADEMIC WORKERS are going on STRIKE. It’s such a big deal omg
QUICK! Go to FairUCNow.org to find a way to support them #FairUCNow
ALT An orange cat is in front of a sunny California campus. He is holding a picket sign that says UAW On Strike
Day 5! My class is cancelled again today in solidarity with @uaw2865 @uaw2865sb #FairUCNow .
Academic workers marching on a picket line at the Berkeley Lab gate singing 'Solidarity Forever' in unison. This is the first ever strike at LBNL! #FairUCNow #UAWonStrike
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If you have questions about the UC-wide UAW Academic worker #strike starting 11/14, ask here and I’ll answer to the best of my ability! I’m a graduate student teaching assistant at UC Santa Barbara and I’ve been organizing with @uaw2865 @uaw2865sb for years. #fairUCnow
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Want to dive into spatial histories of modern East Asia? 🌏 Our #NCCSpotlight on "Bodies and Structures" by @dambaras & @profkatemcd has it all! 🗺️ Explore multimodal learning, maps, & primary sources in innovative ways with a peek behind the scenes: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage…
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Call for Applications: Boundary Pushing in Asian Studies – A Virtual Workshop to Prepare Articles for Publication. Apply with a 10,000-word draft by December 1 for this opportunity to discuss your work with @jas_tw editor @JosephAlter8 and other scholars. buff.ly/3LzUqRr
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We're excited to participate in #UCSBGiveDay!
Donations to @HistJournalUCSB allow us to publish undergraduate research, record a podcast, & host our materials online.
Consider donating $19.58 (the year UCSB became UCSB) to help us carry on our work!
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#AAS2022 can’t to wait to present alongside Kun Huang, Lin Li and Wen Liu, on the panel ‘Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies and Asian/American Studies’. I am presenting on the BLM movement in Japan
Our virtual panel will be Saturday at 4:00 HST
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Join us 3/31 at 4 p.m. for a virtual talk by David R. Ambaras, PhD, & Kate McDonald, PhD on “Bodies and Structures 2.0: Scalar and the Practice of Digital Spatial History” as part of Falvey Library’s Digital Seeds Speaker Series. @profkatemcd @dambaras @bodiesandstruct @lepagevu
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Academia is so much poorer for the drive to coin terms and claim to be the first to do X, rather than being in conversation and relation to each other and our work. This is clearly a response to the confluence of labor conditions and ego, but we don’t have to capitulate to it.
I'm glad to announce a live-streamed presentation by the wonderful @dfedman about his work on the fire bombings of Tokyo and the new documentary, "Paper City." Please join us! Wednesday at 530pm (Pacific time).
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1. This will be a thread of tweets from corporations promoting their impassioned support for LGBTQ rights along with how much the same corporations have recently donated to the politicians behind Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill
Follow along if interested
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@NCStateNews features Bodies and Structures 2.0: "The Future of History." news.ncsu.edu/2022/01/the-fu… @profkatemcd @dambaras @NEH_ODH #digitalhumanities #spatialhumanities
Some news: I'm delighted to announce that I will be taking over as the Modern China Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies @jas_tw. I genuinely look forward to commissioning reviews for all of your incredible forthcoming books on China!
Y'all, my wife wrote this and she is amazing and here are her feelings and you should read it. independent.com/2021/12/24/a…
This thread by @bryandaniellowe is so interesting -- I can't wait to share it with my Japanese history survey class in January. Thanks, @bryandaniellowe for your wonderful and insightful threads.
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Attention Modern Asianists, spatial historians, and other people doing cool stuff! Planning your courses for next semester/quarter? Bodies and Structures 2.0 is designed for use in the classroom and in student projects. Check out bodiesandstructures.org/bodi…
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John Scholes Prize 2022
For the best original paper on #TransportHistory/ #MobilityHistory by new researchers.
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