Public Humanities

Out of the Desert
Co-Pl and Project Director

The Out of the Desert Project at Yale University combines context-rich historical curation with modern web application to archive and interpret the history of World War II Japanese American incarceration for a broad public audience. The site offers multiple modes for exploring this history: an interactive map of incarceration sites, an image gallery of digitized material objects, and downloadable curricula (outofthedesert.yale.edu)

Panelist for Densho’s “Unexpected Sites of WWII Incarceration” Public Event

Panelist for the Densho Virtual Event, “Unexpected Sites of WWII Incarceration (April 21, 2021 on Zoom). 

Presentation Title: “Tuberculosis Sanatoria: Racial Contagion and Confinement.” 

Legacies of Incarceration: 75 Years After Executive Order 9066 (Yale University, Oct. 5–7, 2017)

Co-organizer and moderator, Yale University Out of the Desert Project. Three-day public symposium marking the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, with panels on history/memory, public curation, and material preservation; keynote by legal scholar Hiroshi Motomura.

Historical Consultant and Interviewee for the documentary, “Dr. Iga Mori: Dean of the Islands’ Medical Men,” produced and directed by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaiʻi (JCCH).
Panelist for Virtual Symposium, “Language Matters: Defining the History of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II,” organized by the Reparative Archival Description Working Group (RAD), Yale University Library. April 19, 2022.