James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and American Studies
Chair, American Studies Program
- B.A. (1976) Rutgers University
- Ph.D. (1992) University of Michigan
- Kevin.S.Wong@williams.edu
- Stetson H16
- 413.597.2521
- Office Hours
- Tuesday 10:00-12:00, Friday 10:00-12:00
- Courses
- HIST 253: The United States from Appomattox to AOL, 1865-Present
- HIST 284: Topics in Asian American History
- HIST 301: Remembering American History
- HIST 368: Cultural Encounters in the American West
- HIST 380: Comparative American Immigration History
- HIST 384: Comparative Asian American History, 1850-1965
- HIST 385: Contemporary Issues in Recent Asian American History, 1965-Present
- HIST 469: Notions of Race and Ethnicity in American Culture
- HIST 470: The Chinese American Experience
- HIST 488T: The Politics and Rhetoric of Exclusion: Immigration and Its Discontents
- Research
- The meaning of citizenship in immigration history
- The "Pro-Chinese Movement" in late-19th and early 20th-century America
- The study of history and historical memory
- Thesis Students
- Rebecca Kline '93 (American Studies)
- Stuart McLaughlin '94
- Daisy Ha '96
- Gillian Bazelon '98
- Catherine Williams '00
- Melina Evans '00
- Heather Barney '01
- Alison Swain '01 (American Studies)
- Geraldine Shen '01 (Asian Studies)
- Crystal Baik '02
- Carisha Swanson '02 (American Studies)
- Lesley Benware '05 (American Studies)
- Masa Fox'05 (American Studies)
- James Rossd'05
- Selected Publications
- Books:
- Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Harvard University Press), 2005.
- Co-editor with Sucheng Chan, Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1998.
- Co-editor with Gary Okihiro, Marilyn Alquizola, and Dorothy Rony, Privileging Positions: The Sites of Asian American Studies (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995).
- Articles and Essays:
- "Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities," in Diaspora and Displacement: Researching and Teaching in the Asian Diasporas, Wanni Anderson and Robert Lee, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2005).
- “War Comes to Chinatown: Social Transformation and the Chinese of America,” in The Way We Really Were: Everyday Life in WWII California, Roger Lotchin, ed. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press), 2000.
- “The Meaning of Military Service to Chinese Americans During WWII,” Duty and Honor: A Tribute to Chinese American World War II Veterans of Southern California, Marjorie Lee, ed. (Los Angeles: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California), 1998.
- “Immigration and Race: The Politics and Rhetoric of Exclusion,” in Gregory R. Campbell, ed., Many Americas: Perspectives on Racism, Ethnicity, and Cultural Identity (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.), 1998.
- “The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America,” American Quarterly, 48: 2 (June, 1996) pp. 201-232. Reprinted in Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline ed. Lucy Maddox (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998).
- “‘The Eagle Seeks a Helpless Quarry’: Chinatown, the Police, and the Press. The 1903 Boston Chinatown Raid Revisited,” Amerasia Journal 22:3 (1996).
- “Chinatown: Conflicting Images, Contested Terrain,” MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), 20:1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 3-15.
- “Liang Qichao and the Chinese of America: A Re-evaluation of his Selected Memoir of Travels in the New World,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 11:4 (Summer 1992), pp. 3-24. (Received the Carlton Qualey Award from the Immigration History Society).