Brian Hayashi
Biography
Field: US History, Japan
Courses: History of Japan, History of Espionage
Research interests: I am interested in race and ethnicity, as it applies to Asian Americans, from their initial arrival in the late 19th century to the present, with most of my focus centring around World War II. Religion, diasporic politics, intelligence/espionage, racial ideology are the subjects of my research.
Currently Accepting Graduate Students Working in the Fields of...
Asian Americans, Intelligence studies, Race, ethnicity, Immigration, Diasporic politics
As for time periods: Interwar years, World War II, Early Cold War
Publications
- Asian American Spies: Race, Loyalty, and the Office of Strategic Services during World War II (Oxford University Press, 2021)
- Democratizing the Enemy: the Japanese American Internment (Princeton University Press, 2004), winner of the 2006 Robet Athearn Award and nominated for other prizes
- 'For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren': Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942 (Stanford University Press), winner of the Kenneth Scott Latourette Award, finalist for Asian American Studies Association
