Dr Edith Kaneshiro
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. (UC Berkeley)
Tel: (65) 6516 6060
Office: AS1 05 - 13
Email: hiskem@nus.edu.sg

I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California in a multiracial and culturally diverse community. As a result, I developed an interest in immigration, ethnicity, and diversity in America. I attended the University of California at Berkeley as an undergraduate and graduate student. As a graduate student, I spent a year at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan where I researched the history of migration from Kin-son, my ancestral village. When I was there, I also developed an interest in the history of the Ryukyu Islands when they were under the control of the United States from 1945 to 1972. Currently, I am interested in understanding how migration, war, and military occupation have shaped Okinawan identities. In general, trained as a social historian, I am interested in the history of ordinary people and non-elite communities, particularly groups that have been overlooked by historians.

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