Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Early US gender and sexuality history; race and US imperialism; Asia-Pacific world; extraction of biotic and abiotic labor
I am currently working on two projects: one exploring U.S. imperialism in the Pacific with an emphasis on sexual labor, and the other historicizing representations of Asianness and their relationship to gender binary.
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gender and Women's History Program, 2010
Honors & Awards
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2021-2026
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Award, 2016-18
New Faculty Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2012-13
Grants
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2020
Teaching
HIST171 U.S. History to 1877
HIST285 U.S. Gender History to 1877
HIST316 Global Histories of Gender HIST317 Birth of U.S.Empire
Office Address
419C Greg Hall
810 S. Wright St.
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801
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Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
Asaka, I., Nov 2017, Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 304 p.Research output: Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book
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African-American Migration and the Climatic Language of Anglophone Settler Colonialism
Asaka, I., Jan 2020, Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. Hoganson, K. L. & Sexton, J. (eds.). Duke University Press, p. 205-221 (American Encounters/Global Interactions).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-8, “A Teaching Roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History” (October 14, 2020)
Asaka, I., Oct 14 2020Research output: Other contribution
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Review: M.A. Schoeppner's Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America by Michael A. Schoeppner
Asaka, I., Nov 2019, In: Journal of Southern History. 85, 4, p. 906-907Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
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Different Tales of John Glasgow: John Brown’s Evolution to Slave Life in Georgia
Asaka, I., Apr 1 2018, In: Journal of Black Studies. 49, 3, p. 212-234 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Press/Media
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Emancipated blacks often targeted for relocation to the tropics
2/19/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research