Elyssa Faison

Elyssa Faison is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma. Her scholarship focuses on Japanese history, gender and labor studies, and Cold War legacies. She has authored Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan (2007) and co-edited works including Gender and Labor in Korea and Japan: Sexing Class (2009) and Resisting the Nuclear: Art and Activism Across the Pacific (2024). She received the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching in 2012.

Research Interests:

• Japanese labor history
• Gender and industrialization
• Cold War cultural memory
• Colonial and postcolonial labor dynamics
• Biography of socialist feminist Yamakawa Kikue

Scientific Awards:

• Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching (2012)

Current Projects: Dr. Faison is writing Atomic Memories: Legacies of the Cold War in Japan and the United States and a biography of Yamakawa Kikue (1890-1980).