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Helen Kaibara serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University's College of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. She specializes in Modern Asian History with a focus on Japan, teaching courses in East Asian History, General Asian History, Asian American History, Modern American History, and Diplomatic History.
Her academic credentials include a B.A. in Political Science from Portland State University (2006), M.A. in American History from Eastern Kentucky University (2010), and Ph.D. in East Asian History from Michigan State University (2017). Additional scholarly experiences encompass studies at Waseda University (2004-5) and a Fulbright Scholarship at Rikkyo University (2015-16) in Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Kaibara's research examines transpacific migration patterns and racial narrative formation, notably through her dissertation on the origins of the Japanese American "model minority" myth in the early twentieth century. Her scholarly contributions appear in the edited volume Transnational Migration and Asia: The Question of Return and journals including Studies on Asia, The Virginia Review of Asian Studies, and Rikkyo American Studies. She has presented at major conferences such as the Association for Asian Studies and Social Science History Association.
Award recognition includes her Fulbright Scholarship. She co-founded the planning committee for the Migration Without Boundaries Graduate Student Conference. A Pacific Northwest native with residency across multiple U.S. states, she maintains interests in documentaries, culinary arts, and water sports including swimming and kayaking.
