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President-elect
Jessica Kim
California State University, Northridge (professor)
Jessica Kim is a professor of history at California State University, Northridge. She holds a PhD in history from the University of Southern California and specializes in the history of the US-Mexico borderlands, the US West, urban history, and public and digital history. Her book, Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019. The book was the 2020 co-winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for best book from the Urban History Association and a finalist for the David J. Weber book prize from the Western History Association.
Council (vote for 3)
Farida Begum
University of Wyoming (assistant professor)
Farida Begum is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wyoming. She is a historian of modern South Asia and gender. Her current book manuscript, A Friend of One’s Own, examines the everyday friendships between Hindu and Muslim women in 20th-century Bengal, exploring shifts and continuities in the late colonial and postcolonial periods. Her research explores questions of what constitutes history, how we tell histories, and what histories of emotions can illuminate about social and political events. Begum teaches courses on global histories of empire, nationalism, and gender, as well as general courses on historical methods and methodology. Begum holds a PhD in history from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and undergraduate degrees in history and Asian and Middle Eastern cultures from Barnard College, Columbia University.
Sonia C. Gomez
Santa Clara University (assistant professor)
Sonia C. Gomez is a historian of the 20th-century United States interested in race and ethnic relations, gender, and migration. Her first book, Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (forthcoming, NYU Press) examines how marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during times of racial exclusion. Her next project explores Japanese American wartime incarceration through interracial female friendship. She has published in the Journal of American Ethnic History and Amerasia. Gomez is currently assistant professor of history at Santa Clara University.
Lily Lucas Hodges
Chapman University (assistant instructional professor)
Lily Lucas Hodges is an assistant instructional professor at Chapman University, where they teach courses in US history and LGBTQ studies. Their academic interests center on the intersections of history, memory, and queer studies, with a particular focus on the AIDS epidemic in the United States.
Christen T. Sasaki
University of California, San Diego (associate professor)
Christen T. Sasaki received her PhD in history and MA in Asian American studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Sasaki’s research and published works focus on the politics of race and empire across the Pacific Island world. Her first book, Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in 19th Century Hawai’i was published with the University of California Press in 2022. She is currently working on a second book project that ties the spread of aloha wear to the collusion between the military and tourism industries as they uphold empire across Oceania. Her recent articles include “Making Sartorial Sense of Empire: Contested Meanings of Aloha Shirt Aesthetics,” published in The Contemporary Pacific.
Nominating Committee (vote for 1)
Luis Sánchez-Lopez
University of California, Irvine (assistant professor)
Luis Sánchez-Lopez received his PhD in History from UC San Diego and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine. He is a member of the Critical Latinx Indigeneities Working Group and is a co-founder of the Oaxacan College Initiative, a community-based project that provides mentorship and support for Oaxacan students pursuing higher education. His research focuses on Indigeneity, settler colonialism, autonomy, and customary law.
Daniel Kim
California State University, Fresno (assistant professor)
Danny Kim is assistant professor of modern Asian history at California State University, Fresno. His scholarly interests are in Korea under Japanese rule (1910–45), particularly the transnational production of feminist knowledge. He has published on this topic and is working on a book manuscript on the Rose of Sharon Alliance (Kŭnuhoe), a revolutionary Korean feminist organization active from the 1920s to 1930s.