Alan Christy, Professor of History

Alan Christy is Professor and Undergraduate Education Program Director in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He also serves as the Provost of Cowell College and Director of the Okinawa Memories Initiative. His publications include  A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnology, 1910-1945 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2012),  Rethinking Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, (University of Michigan, 2012), and essays on modern Okinawan history and war memory in Japan. He teaches courses on memories of World War II in the Pacific, Japanese and East Asian history, Okinawa, and historiography and memory. He is currently researching science, war, and memory in Okinawa and memories of war monuments in late twentieth century Japan.

Alice Yang, Professor of History

Alice Yang is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is also a founding faculty member of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department. Her publications include Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (Stanford, 2007), Major Problems in Asian American History (Cengage, 2003 and 2016), What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (Bedford/St. Martins, 2000), and essays on the World War II mass incarceration of Japanese Americans, redress, gender, and multiracial activism. Her exhibit, Never Again is Now: Japanese American Women Activists and the Legacy of Mass Incarceration, is now at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose after appearing at UC Santa Cruz and the Watsonville Public Library. She teaches courses on memories of the Pacific War, Asian American history, race, gender, oral history, historical memory, and twentieth-century America. She is currently researching the history of Japanese American women’s activism between 1941 and 2021.