Chie Ikeya

Chie Ikeya is a Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University. A Cornell University Ph.D. (2006), she joined Rutgers in 2012 and specializes in modern Asian history with particular focus on women, gender, sexuality, and comparative colonialisms across Burma/Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Japan, and global asias. Her office is located at 220 Van Dyck Hall, contactable at chie.ikeya@rutgers.edu.

• Ph.D., Cornell University, 2006
• At Rutgers since 2012
• Director, Institute for Research on Women

Dr. Ikeya's research examines colonial politics, gender relations, and cultural modernity in Asia. Employing interdisciplinary, multilingual methodologies, her work connects Southeast Asian history to global decolonial discourses through projects on

• Colonial-era gender reforms
• Interracial marriage dynamics
• Transnational migration patterns
• Postcolonial identity formation
• Japanese diasporic cemeteries in Southeast Asia

Her publications reveal obscured inter-Asian relationships that shaped modern understandings of race, religion, and nationhood.

Research trends across her publications demonstrate sustained engagement with

• Colonial governance and resistance
• Gendered media analysis
• Transnational family structures
• Legal pluralism in empires
• Cultural hybridity
• Decolonial historiography

Awarded multiple prestigious fellowships including

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
• Japan Foundation Fellowship
• American Association of University Women International Fellowship
• Lauriston Sharp Dissertation Prize

Dr. Ikeya's work bridges feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial scholarship while maintaining rigorous engagement with local historical practices.

Her current project "Restless Remains: Reburying and Redressing Empire, Migration, and War in Overseas Japanese Cemeteries" investigates the geopolitical implications of diasporic cemetery preservation across Southeast Asia. She teaches courses including Sex and Power, Comparative Colonialisms in Asia, and Colloquium in Women's and Gender History.