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Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Department of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University

Degree: Doctor of American Studies(Doshisha University)
M.A. (Political Studies)(Queen's University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 200901097866690202
researchmap Member ID: 1000320315

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Apr, 2013 - Present

Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University
Apr, 2022 - Aug, 2022

Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Visiting Scholar, National Taiwan Normal University/Academia Sinica
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2013

Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2011

Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Apr, 2003 - Mar, 2011

Associate Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University
Sep, 2004 - Aug, 2005

Fulbright Scholarship Researcher Program
Apr, 2000 - Mar, 2003

Assistant Professor, Institute for Language and Culture, Doshisha University

Education

Apr, 1995 - Mar, 2000

Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
Apr, 1995 - Mar, 2000

Ph.D Program, Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
Jan, 1997 - Oct, 1998

歴史学研究科, ビクトリア大学大学院
Jan, 1997 - Oct, 1998

Department of History, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Victoria
Sep, 1988 - Oct, 1990

修士課程, 政治学研究科, クィーンズ大学大学院
Sep, 1988 - Oct, 1990

MA Program, Department of Political Studies, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Queen's University at Kingston
Apr, 1984 - Mar, 1988

Faculty of Foreign Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Apr, 1984 - Mar, 1988

BA Program, Department of Anglo-American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Language, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2016 - Present

理事、共同研究推進委員, 日本移民学会
Apr, 2011 - Mar, 2013

大会企画委員, アメリカ学会
Nov, 2009 - Oct, 2012

Member, International Committee, American Studies Association
Nov, 2005 - Oct, 2008

International Delegate, National Council, American Studies Association
2005 - 2008

International Delegate for the National Council, American Studies Association
Apr, 2006 - Mar, 2007

Member, Program Committee, Association for Asian American Studies

Awards

Major Books and Other Publications

日系カナダ人の移動と運動 : 知られざる日本人の越境生活史

和泉, 真澄

小鳥遊書房, Jan, 2020 (ISBN: 9784909812247)
The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s

Masumi Izumi

Temple University Press, Sep, 2019 (ISBN: 9781439917244)
Japanese American Internment and the Emergency Detention Act: Memories and Dilemma over Race, Security, and Liberty

Masumi Izumi

Akashi Shoten, Feb, 2009 (ISBN: 9784750329338)

Papers

Asian Americans and the Black Lives Matte Movement

Masumi Izumi

Gendai Shiso, October 2020, Special Issue, "Black Lives Matter", 299-306, Oct, 2020 Invited
The Music of "Yellow Power" and After : Nobuko Miyamoto's Community Activism and Changes in Her Music

Masumi Izumi

Doshisha Global and Regional Studies review : The journal of the Doshisha Society for Global and Regional Studies, (12) 101-132, Mar, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Gila River Concentration Camp and the Historical Memory of Japanese American Concentration Camp

Masumi Izumi

Japanese Journal of American Studies, 29 67-87, Jul, 2018 Invited
Agriculture at the Gila River Concentration Camp : Towards a Re-evaluation of the Issei's Wartime Survival Strategies

Masumi Izumi

移民研究年報 = The annual review of migration studies, (22) 3-21, Mar, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Analyzing Yearbooks as a Representational Medium of Japanese American High School Lives in the Gila River Internment Camp

Masumi Izumi

立命館言語文化研究, 26(4) 55-72, Mar, 2015
Concentration Camps without Barbed Wire : Japanese Canadians during World War 2 (Forced Migration and Internment of Overseas Japanese during World War 2)

IZUMI Masumi

Ritsumeikan studies in language and culture, 25(1) 119-135, Oct, 2013
History of the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site : The Catalina Federal Honor Camp Prison and Japanese American Draft Resisters

Izumi Masumi

同志社法学, 64(7) 2643-2666, Mar, 2013
Seeking the Truth, Spiritual and Political: Japanese American Community Building through Engaged Ethnic Buddhism

Masumi Izumi

Peace and Change, 35(1) 39-67, Jan, 2010 Peer-reviewed
Sharing the memory of internment: a case study on Japanese Americans' cultural peace movement after 9.11

Masumi Izumi

AALA Journal, (14) 1-9, Mar, 2009 Invited
The Pioneering of Taiko Drumming in the United States: An Examination of Three Distinct Routes

Masumi Izumi

Language and Culture, 11(2) 139-168, Dec, 2008 Peer-reviewed
Reflecting the contennial of the 1907 vancouver riot: analyses of the Japanese-language materials and research

Masumi Izumi

Ritsumeikan studies in language and culture, 20(1) 215-235, Sep, 2008
The Japanese Canadian movement: Migration and activism before & after World War II

Masumi Izumi

AMERASIA JOURNAL, 33(2) 49-66, 2007 Peer-reviewedInvited
Alienable Citizenship: Race, Loyalty and the Law in the Age of "American Concentration Camps," 1941-1971

Masumi Izumi

Asian American Law Journal, (13) 1-30, Nov, 2006 Peer-reviewed
Prohibiting "American concentration camps": Repeal of the emergency detention act and the public historical memory of the Japanese American internment

M Izumi

PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 74(2) 165-193, May, 2005 Peer-reviewed
From "Inalienable Rights" to "Reward for Loyalty": The "Concentration Camp Law" and Civil Liberties in the McCarthy Era

Masumi Izumi

Ritsumeikan Journal of Language and Culture, 16(4) 15-28, Mar, 2005
Japanese American Internment and the Emergency Detention Act (Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950), 1941-1971: Balancing Internal Security and Civil Liberties in the United States

博士論文（同志社大学大学院アメリカ研究科）, 2004
Constructing Ethnicity Through Social Critique: Cultural Expressions of Japanese Canadians in Post-Internment Canada

Masumi Izumi

Joseph F. Kess, Hiroko Noro, Midge M. Ayukawa and Helen Lansdowne (eds.), Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada: Selected Papers from the "Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada Conference," August 22-24, 2002, University of Victoria, 83-93, Oct, 2003
Rumors of "American Concentration Camps": The Emergency Detention Act and the Public Fear of Political Repression, 1966-1971

Masumi Izumi

Language and Culture, 4(4) 737-65, Mar, 2002 Peer-reviewed
Reconsidering Ethnic Culture and Community: A Case Study on Japanese Canadian Taiko Drumming

Masumi Izumi

Journal of Asian American Studies, 4(1) 35-56, Feb, 2001 Peer-reviewed
Cultural and Political Activities by Japanese Canadians Between 1967 and 1977

Masumi Izumi

Ritsumeikan Journal of Language and Culture, 11(4) 85-99, Feb, 2000

Presentations

"Labor, Germs, and Race: Dissecting Asian American History in the Light of the COVID-19 Related Yellow Peril Sentiment"

Masumi Izumi

Public Symposium "What is 'Anti-Asian Hate'?: History and Structure that Condition the Current Crises", Jan 22, 2022 Invited
“Translating the Tule Lake Stockade Diary”

Masumi Izumi

“Conversation on Tule Lake Stockade Diary by Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye.” Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles., Dec 11, 2021 Invited
"A Study on the Global Anti-Asian Hate Arising from COVID-19 Pandemic"

Masumi Izumi

The 4th Symposium "Considering International Issues in the With-Corona Society", Oct 26, 2021 Invited
"A Japanese Canadian Woman who Changed the Canadian Radio Broadcasting: Margaret Lyons and the CBC"

Masumi Izumi

Japanese Association for Canadian Studies, Annual Meeting, Sep 11, 2021
“Enemies on the Indian Land: Perspectives on Farming in the Gila River War Relocation Center”

Masumi Izumi

Interdisciplinary Group Research Project #3, International Institute of American Studies, Doshisha University, Sep 4, 2021
From Migration/Ethnic History to Transnational Life History: On the Publication of a Comprehensive Japanese Canadian History

Masumi Izumi

Joint Study "History, Society and Culture of the Americas," Chuo University, Aug 28, 2021 Invited
"The Global Pandemic and Anti-Asian Violence in the US and the UK”

Masumi Izumi

Human Rights Workshop, The British Embassy in Japan., May 21, 2021 Invited
American Presidential Election 2020 and the Black Lives Matter Movement: Dissecting a Social Movement that Changed the Election Result

Masumi Izumi, Mishio Yamanaka, Hiroshi Takei, Fumiko Sakashita, Fuminori Minamikawa

A Public Symposium, the Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University, Jan 15, 2021
Online Lecture, “Imin Kenkyu to Tsunagarou: Nikkei Kanadajin no Idou to Undou [Let’s Connect with Migration Studies: Japanese Canadian Migration and Activism]”

Masumi Izumi

Online Community Lecture sponsored by the Canada Museum, Mio, Mihama-cho, Wakayama, Japan., Dec 28, 2020 Invited
Online Lecture and Book Lauch, “Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture with Masumi Izumi and Jordan Stanger-Ross,”

Masumi Izumi (Doshisha University), Jordan Stanger-Ross (University of Victoria)

Midge Ayukawa Commemorative Lecture, Oct 23, 2020 Invited
Video Lecture, “Dissecting the Complex Relationship Among Loyalty, Freedom, and Security in ‘The Age of American Concentration Camps’”

Masumi Izumi

Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage: Week 9, online pilgrimage of Japanese American incarceration sites, Aug 10, 2020 Invited
＜Invited Lecture＞ The Relevance of Writing and Preserving the Japanese Canadian History

Masumi Izumi

社会学部教育文化学会公開シンポジウム「多文化共生社会のこれから－日系カナダ人の教育文化から考える」、同志社大学, Jan 19, 2020 Invited
Starvation, Sickness, and Shaved Heads: Alien Bodies and Resistance in the Japanese American Segregation Center

Masumi Izumi

American Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, U.S.A., Nov 9, 2019
＜Public Lecture＞ Food and Coercion in a Japanese American Wartime Segregation Center

Masumi Izumi

立命館大学国際言語文化研究所連続講座「食と政治－胃袋から支配する」第４回「食と支配・抵抗」。立命館大学, Oct 25, 2019 Invited
Safety and Human Rights in the Light of North American Constitutional History: Does the Emergency Clause Protect Citizens?

Masumi Izumi

Human Rights Committee, Doshisha University, Sep 20, 2019
Remembering is Not Enough: Continuing Misconstruction of Japanese American Exclusion Cases as Legal Precedents

Masumi Izumi

Workshop E “Contingent Citizenship: Have the Korematsu Decisions Been Overturned?” Japanese Association for American Studies, Hosei University, Tokyo, Jun 2, 2019
The Stockade Diary of Tatsuo Inouye: Thoughts and Experiences of a Kibei Judo Practitioner in the Tule Lake Relocation Center

Masumi Izumi

Association for Asian American Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A., Apr 25, 2019
Lost and Found: Reconsidering ‘Diaspora’ in Japanese Canadian Experience in Canada and Japan

Masumi Izumi

Japanese Studies Association of Canada, Annual Conference, Edmonton, Canada, Oct 13, 2018 Invited
(In Japanese) The Description of Food in the Stockade Diary in the Tule Lake Japanese American Segregation Center

Masumi Izumi

Organization for Migration Studies, Kyoto Women's University, Dec 2, 2017
A Textbook of Wrath: An American History Textbook Authored by Japanese Scholars to Counter Hate

Masumi Izumi

American Studies Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., Nov 10, 2017

Misc.

“The Citizenship Question: A Conversation,”

Masumi Izumi, Joy Kogawa

Georgia Review, Spring 174-182, Apr, 2020
“Background Explanation of Japanese Canadian History,” in the Japanese translation of Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki (Caitlin Press, 2015)

Masumi Izumi

283-296, Oct, 2019 Invited
＜Book Review＞ Roger W. Lotchin, Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Masumi Izumi

Pacific Historical Review, 88(3) 497-498, Aug, 2019 Invited
＜学会年次大会ラウンドテーブルの企画、モデレータ＞日本移民学会年次大会ラウンドテーブル「『バンクーバー朝日』の歴史を掘り起こす－関係者子孫による調査と発見および研究者との連携について」天理大学

Jun 29, 2019
＜国際ミニシンポジウム企画・発表＞グローバル地域文化学部小規模講演会「アリゾナ州エスニック教育禁止法をめぐる訴訟と歴史的記憶をめぐる地域横断的対話のためのGRミニシンポジウム（講演者：Lorraine K. Bannai、和泉真澄、向正樹、亀谷百合佳）にて「グローバル地域文化論Ⅰ」での教育実践を発表。同志社大学

May 21, 2019
＜学会年次大会ラウンドテーブルの企画、モデレータ＞日本移民学会年次大会ラウンドテーブル「国立国会図書館の活用－憲政資料室の日系移民関係資料について」、南山大学

Jun 24, 2018
＜国際公開講演会の企画、実施＞「Making of “100 Years in Mississippi” and Creating a Multi-Ethnic Bon-Odori」Great Leap、Nobuko Miyamoto and Tarabu Betserai Kirkland。同志社大学

Nov 13, 2017
＜国際公開講演会の企画、実施＞「Reflections on the Historical Study of Asians in the United States」カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校、アジア系アメリカ研究プログラム教授David K. Yoo氏。同志社大学

Oct 14, 2017
＜国際シンポジウム企画・実施＞「海を渡るベースボール－民族・移民・国家の関わりから」立命館大学

Nov 19, 2016
＜Column＞ Resituating Displaced/Replaced Subjects in and of Japanese Canadian History

Masumi Izumi

Christine Kim and Chris Lee (eds), “Asian Canadian Critique Forum,” Canadian Literature, (227) 194-196, Nov, 2016 Invited
＜Commentator＞ Comments for Myla Vicenti-Carpio and Karen J. Leong, “Between Social Death and State Recognition: Japanese Americans and the Gila River Indian Community During World War II.” 京都大学人文科学研究所セミナー “Intersecting the Global with the Local: Activism and American Minorities,” 京都大学

Masumi Izumi

Jun 25, 2016 Invited
＜Column＞ Internet Bullying

Masumi Izumi

1-1, 2016 Invited
＜Column＞A Joint Lab that connects multicultural stories: Performance Art by a Japanese American Sansei, Nobuko Miyamoto

Masumi Izumi

Monthly Journal for the Museum of Ethnography, Jul, 2015 Invited
＜Book Review＞ Yuji Ichioka, Gordon H. Chang and Eiichiro Azuma (eds.), Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History

Masumi Izumi

Rekishi Hyoron, (778) 101-105, Feb, 2015 Invited
＜Book Review＞ Eiichiro Azuma, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford University Press, 2005)

Masumi Izumi

The Studies in Western History, (257) 81-83, 2015 Invited
＜Commentator＞ ASA International Roundtable, “Transnational Learning: Reimagining Alliance and Collaboration through a Japan-U.S Course”、American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012.11.15.

Masumi Izumi

Nov, 2012 Invited
＜Column＞ From 太鼓 to Taiko: The Globalization of Taiko and the Japanese American Community

Masumi Izumi

177-181, Jul, 2011
Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow

Masumi Izumi

PACIFIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, 78(4) 649-U14, Nov, 2009
北米における日系人の体験, 記憶, アイデンティティ (プロジェクトA3 日本人の国際移動研究会 2008年度研究経過報告)

和泉真澄

立命館言語文化研究, 20(4) 79-80, Mar, 2009
＜Book review＞ Nikkei America no Rekishi-Shakai Gaku: Esunishithi, Jinshu, Nashonarizumu, by Minamikawa Fuminori

Masumi Izumi

The annual review of migration studies, (14) 106-110, Mar, 2008 Invited

Professional Memberships

Works

Research Projects

From Mio: Community-based Public History Project

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2021 - Mar, 2026
日本人カナダ移民の還流および国外追放による永住帰国者に関する地域横断的調査研究

科学研究費助成事業基盤研究(C), 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

和泉真澄
Transnational Mobility and Occupations of Overseas Japanese in the Pacific Rim

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

YONEYAMA Hiroshi
Historical Research on Japanese American Internment Camps in Arizona, U.S.A.

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2015

IZUMI Masumi
An Interdisciplinary Study of the International Movement of the Japanese in the Pacific Region

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2006 - 2009

YONEYAMA Hiroshi, SAKAGUCHI Mitsuhiro, YAMAZAKI Yuko, KAWAHARA Norifumi, IZUMI Masumi, MINAMIKAWA Fuminori, TODOROKI Hiroshi, HAYASHI BRIAN MASARU, MONOBE Hiromi, MIYASHITA Takashi, AZUMA Eiichiro, GUTHRIE-SHIMIZU Sayuri, NIIYA Brian
Community Building through Cultural Activism: Ethnic and Inter-Ethnic Activities in the Los Angeles Japanese American Community

Fulbright Scholarship Researcher Program, Fulbright Japan, Sep, 2004 - Aug, 2005

Masumi Izumi

Media Coverage

（Commentary）Backgrounds for Discrimination against Asian Residents in the United States

NHK Radio 1, N-Raji, Jun 8, 2021 TV or radio program
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (3)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evenin Edition, p.8., Jun 2, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (2)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evenin Edition, p.6., Jun 1, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）Increasing Anti-Asian Hate in the United States (1)

Mainichi Shinbun, Evening Edition, p.6., May 31, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
（Commentary）"Backgrounds for Anti-Asian Hate"

NHK, NHK "Shuukan Maruwakari News", "Migake Koukishin!", May 15, 2021 TV or radio program