Lane Hirabayashi is the first George & Sakaye Aratani Chair in Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community at the University of California at Los Angeles. He has held various positions at San Francisco State University, University of Colorado Boulder and the University of California Riverside.
In addition to his major contributions
to the development of scholarship on Japanese Americans, particularly
their World War II experiences, he has been a major contributor in the
field of Asian American Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies,
and in the comparative analysis of Japanese migration in the United States,
Mexico, and Latin America. He is the author of Cultural Capital..
Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City ( 1993) , Inside
an American Concentration Camp: Japanese American Resistance at Poston,
Arizona and The Politics of Fieldwork.. Research in an American Concentration
Camp (1999) , and is editor and coeditor of five books and one book-
length special issue of the Amerasia Journal. He has published over thirty
articles, as well as numerous book reviews and is currently completing
two book manuscripts, including a reconsideration of Japanese American
resettlement after incarceration.
