Faculty Bios

Eiichiro Azuma

Assistant Professor, History

Eiichiro Azuma is Assistant Professor of Asian American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Penn faculty in January 2001 after working as a curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles since 1992. He specialized in modern Japanese history, immigration, U.S.-Japan relations, and the history of Asians in the United States. He holds a MA in Asian American Studies (1992) and a Ph.D. in history (2000), both from University of California at Los Angeles.

Professor Azuma has published several articles and book chapters on the experiences of Japanese immigrants in the United States. His articles published in Amerasia Journal and the Pacific Historical Review received the Alexander Saxton History Essay Award in 1993 and the W. Turrentine Jackson Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association in 1998, respectively. His new book on Japanese immigrants in U.S.-Japan relations is scheduled to be published in 2004 by the Oxford University Press.

Eiichiro Azuma
208 College Hall
Department of History
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379

Tel: (215) 898-6698
E-mail: eazuma@history.upenn.edu