ABOUT
Courtney Sato is the Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching engage Asian American Studies, transnational American Studies, and intellectual and cultural histories of the Pacific. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Prior to joining Tufts, Dr. Sato was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University.
Dr. Sato’s first book, Pacific Internationalisms, offers the first full-length study on interwar Pacific internationalism and the transnational Asian and Asian American activists engaged in Pacific internationalist ideologies. Dr. Sato’s next project examines Japanese American tuberculosis patients confined in segregated sanatoria during WWII and the gendered care of tuberculosis nursing and healthcare. Dr. Sato previously served as the Co-PI and Project Director for the Out of the Desert digital project (https://outofthedesert.yale.edu) which interprets World War II Japanese American incarceration history for a broad public audience.
