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Valerie J. Matsumoto is a historian specializing in Asian American history, women's history, and oral history. She is currently a professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).[1] The website Densho.org, which chronicles the stories of Japanese internment and its effects, calls Matusumoto "our community’s most dedicated chronicler of Japanese American women’s history."[2]
Matsumoto received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University in 1985.[3]She earned a master's degree from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from Arizona State University.[4] In 2017 she was appointed to the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress,and Community.[5] The endowed chair supports research and teaching about the World War II incarceration of Japanese and Japanese Americans in the United States and the post-war redress movement.
Matsumoto has been recognized with a number of awards, including the C. Doris and Toshio Hoshide Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2006 and the UCLA Dintinguished Teaching Award in 2007.[3]
Matsumoto published her first book, Farming the Home Place (Cornell Univeristy Press) in 1993. City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 (Oxford University Press) was published in 2014. In addition, she co-edited with Blake Allmendinger (UCLA professor of English) the anthology Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (University of California Press, 1999). She has also published numerous articles and mentored student research.[3]
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