Eiichiro Azuma

Eiichiro Azuma is the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Asian American history and transpacific studies. He has been at Penn since 2001 and held the Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Chair (2009–2019). His research focuses on Japanese American experiences, migration, settler colonialism, and U.S.-Japan imperial relations.

Education: Ph.D. in History (2000), M.A. in Asian American Studies (1992), both from UCLA.

Research interests include transpacific diaspora, colonial Taiwan, and the intersection of race, migration, and imperialism. His work bridges Asian American studies with global and imperial history. Recent publications include In Search of Our Frontier (2019) and Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War (2024).

Awards include the John K. Fairbank Prize and Theodore Saloutos Award. He has served on editorial boards for journals like Journal of Asian American Studies and Pacific Historical Review. Azuma co-edits the Between Asias and Americas series at the University of Pittsburgh Press and chairs the Asian American Studies Program at Penn.