Resurfacing a Queer Play in Homonationalist Times: Soon-Tek Oh’s Tondemonai—Never Happen!

Paper abstract for the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Seattle, WA:

"Queering the Color Line within the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Transwar Transpacific"

My article "Queering the Color Line within the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Transwar Transpacific" released in the journal American Studies!  Read the abstract here.

Article here: https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2022.a913747.

Supplementing the Peril–Model Binary with the Yellow–White Peril Binary

Paper abstract for the 2023 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Long Beach, CA:

Queering the Transpacific: Race and Sexuality across the U.S. and Japanese Empires

Submitted my dissertation to the UW grad school. Here’s the abstract (in English and 日本語):

"Asian Racialization and the Early 20th-Century Queering of Empire"

Paper abstract for the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Washington, D.C.
(Conference canceled due to Covid-19 ☹️).

Update: Will present this at the 2021 Association for Asian Studies conference (online) instead!

2019 Mormon Policy on LGBT members

Given my extensive previous work on the topic, I figured I'd offer brief thoughts on "Who is Actually Being Served by the Exclusion Policy Reversal?"

W.E.B. Du Bois and the Transpacific

A chapter of my dissertation focuses on W.E.B. Du Bois and the twists and turns of racial capitalism during the interwar, particularly the issue of U.S.-Japan imperial competition. While Du Bois erred in supporting the Japanese Empire, his mistake is not well-understood and his insights concerning racial capitalism in the transpacific and inter-Asian relations remain underanalyzed, but are significant contributions to his global "color line" thesis.