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Hidetaka Hirota

@hidehirota.bsky.social

Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.

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***Share Your News with Us***

The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at digest@iehs.org if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community.

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

More details here:

iehs.org/awards/

17.10.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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***Fall Online Book Event***

Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next online book event with @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan. Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion.

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

***Advisory to Academic Workers***

On 9/17/25, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and Faculty First Responders issued guidance to AAUP members and other academic workers about online speech and choices. They are available on the AAUP website:

www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

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Check out this newsletter from our colleagues at the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center ( @ihrc-umn.bsky.social ):

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The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever A new collection co-edited by NYU scholar Kevin Kenny explores the things Irish and Italians carried with them to the New World during historic waves of migration

"The Objects That Immigrants Packed Tell a Story About What It Meant to Leave Home Forever." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social โฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธโฌ‡๏ธ
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Mapping Deportations โ€“ U.S. Immigration Control since 1790

***UCLA Mapping Deportations Project***

Mapping Deportations, an educational resource uses maps, data, and a timeline to unmask the relationship between race and immigration enforcement throughout U.S. history.

mappingdeportations.com

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Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers This work is funded in part by the IEHS Digital History Seed Grant. There are a million ways to read a historical source, and I have been interested in early 19th-century female preachers for so loโ€ฆ

***New post in our blog, Not from Here***

Sites of Spectacle and Sites of Sacrifice: Mapping the Ministries of 19th Century Female Preachers by @csgreer.bsky.social

iehs.org/sites-of-spe...

13.10.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

More details here: iehs.org/awards/

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Dear IEHS members:

This is a reminder that the Nominations Committee is soliciting nominations for three new board members, whose terms will run from 2026 to 2029.

Please email your suggestions for nominees by 10/17 to Adam Goodman at asig@uic.edu

Thank you,
Nicole Greer Golda
IEHS Secretary

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Achieving Their Goals and Adopting New Norms: Polish Immigrant Women and American Institutions in Early Twentieth-Century and Interwar Chicago Abstract. This paper examines paradoxes and ambiguities in the interactions of Polish immigrant women with American institutions in early twentieth-century and interwar Chicago. I argue that these int...

Check out this free, open access article of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) available as part of Polish American History Month:

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

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How Did Early Airplane Pilots Navigate Without Modern Tech? | The Look Back | PBS LearningMedia How did airplane pilots know where to fly before they had GPS to help guide them? Airplanes are more than just a way to get from one place to another quicklyโ€”they are historical artifacts! To keep tho...

***Emmy Nomination for IEHS member***

Congratulations to @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social for having an episode he co-wrote and co-hosted for PBS Wisconsin Education nominated for the Emmy Award in the category for Outstanding Achievement for Children/Youth/Teens!

ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/how...

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โ€œAs bad as anybody elseโ€: The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans Abstract. Coordinated, violent political attacks increased throughout the months leading up to the 1868 presidential election in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Among the various Democratic orga...

Check out a FREE article of Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):

"'As bad as anybody else': The Innocents, Political Violence, and the Creole-Italian Alliance in Reconstruction New Orleans" by Christopher Joseph Cook

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

***Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)***

The IEHS offers a number of awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

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***Fall Online Book Event***

Join us on Tuesday, October 28 at 4:15 PM EDT for the next online book event with @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan. Michael Salgarolo will moderate the discussion.

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award Visit the post for more.

***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

iehs.org/awards/georg...

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Stop Jewhooing Superman James Gunnโ€™s summer blockbuster Superman arrived in theaters July 11 to great fanfare. It stars the half-Jewish actor David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan, an honorary tribe member for her role as โ€ฆ

Check out this new blog host in our Immigration and Ethnic History Society blog, Not From Here: "Stop Jewhooing Superman" by @comicsscholar.bsky.social

iehs.org/stop-jewhooi...

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OAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship ProgramOAH | Contact the Distinguished Lectureship Program

***New OAH lecturers***

Congratulations to Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) members Adrian De Leon and Omar Valerio-Jimenez for being selected to the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Lectureship Program!

OAH Lecturers can be booked online:

www.oah.org/lectures/con...

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***A Word of Thanks***

Many thanks to all the IEHS members who attended the first OAH-IEHS online event on September 24.

This was the first of three upcoming joint events. Watch out for more details about the other two over the next couple of months!

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Have you seen our Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Monthly Digest for September yet?

We just sent out our monthly newsletter which includes exciting announcements about recent award winners, publications, and upcoming events.

Want to be included? Email digest@iehs.org

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***Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online Books Series***

Join @greeneland.bsky.social and Brendan A. Shanahan for a discussion of their recent publications! The panel will be moderated by Michael Salgarolo.

October 28, 2025, 4:15-5:30PM EST

Register here: iehs.org/event/online...

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Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move
YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Naoko and @michaelrjin.bsky.social! This article makes a critical contribution to the field.

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

Visit the awards page for details regarding all 2025-26 awards, including deadlines.

iehs.org/awards/

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Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja Abstract. Uncovering the voices of the Korean diasporic atomic bomb survivors across multilingual and transimperial spaces in archives and memories in East

New article from IEHS members Naoko Wake and @michaelrjin.bsky.social in the @historians.org American Historical Review:

Surviving the Bomb in Diaspora: Intergenerational Suffering and Justice-Seeking Among Korean Pihaeja

academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Birthright Citizenship - Future of the Past. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. On January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship," which upended more than a hundred and fifty years of American l...

***Upcoming Event: Birthright Citizenship - Future of the Past***

September 24, 2025
6:00 PM ET
Zoom

Join us for a discussion on birthright citizenship. The panel will focus on Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship."

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Left or Right, Loyal or DisloyalIdeology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics This article examines the first cohort of Japanese American voters in California in the interwar years, in order to explore the construction of racialized parameters on Japanese American political age...

Be sure to check out IEHS member Vivian Yan-Gonzalez's new article:

โ€œLeft or Right, Loyal or Disloyal: Ideology, Partisanship, and Empire in the Construction of Interwar Japanese American Politics,โ€ Pacific Historical Review 94, no. 3 (2025): 299-335.

online.ucpress.edu/phr/article-...

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***Share Your News with Us***

The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at digest@iehs.org if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community.

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***Mentoring Event***

The IEHS Graduate and Early Career Affairs Committee is excited to hold this event on 10/2. The event is open to grad students, early career historians, and independent scholars working on North American immigration and ethnicity.

Register by 9/19: iehs.org/event/mentor...

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