Contact Information
810 S. Wright St.
M/C 466
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Gender, sexuality, and women in U.S. history to 1920; U.S. empire; race, climate, and environment; racial formations of "Asian"
Education
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gender and Women's History Program, 2010
Grants
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2020
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, 2020
Awards and Honors
Conrad Humanities Scholar, 2021-2026
Lincoln Excellence for Assistant Professors Award, 2016-18
New Faculty Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies, 2012-13
Courses Taught
HIST171 U.S. History to 1877
HIST285 U.S. Gender History to 1877
HIST316 Global Histories of Gender HIST317 Birth of U.S.Empire
Highlighted Publications
Asaka, I. (2017). Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822372752
Recent Publications
Asaka, I. (2024). The endurance and expanse of settler colonial history. Settler Colonial Studies, 14(4), 465-469. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2024.2371485
Asaka, I. (2023). Guerilla Women and Men in Silk Dresses Diplomacy and Orientalism during the 1860 Japanese Mission. Journal of the Civil War Era, 13(4), 444-468. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2023.a912397
Asaka, I. (2020). African-American Migration and the Climatic Language of Anglophone Settler Colonialism. In K. L. Hoganson, & J. Sexton (Eds.), Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain (pp. 205-221). (American Encounters/Global Interactions). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007432-010
Asaka, I. (2020, Oct 14). H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-8, “A Teaching Roundtable on Teaching Colonialism in History” (October 14, 2020). https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/6565831/h-diplo-roundtable-xxii-8-teaching-colonialism-history
Asaka, I. (2019). Review: M.A. Schoeppner's Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America by Michael A. Schoeppner. Journal of Southern History, 85(4), 906-907. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2019.0305