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Asian American and Pacific Histories

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
M. L. Sun
Soochow University
2
Aloysie Umutoniwase Kwizera
The University of Texas at Austin
3
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
4
Sarah R. Meiners
Cornell University
5
David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile
University of New Mexico
6
Katherine G. Sammler
California Maritime Academy
7
Isaac Rivera
University of Colorado Boulder
8
Kimberly Phuong Beaudreau
University of Illinois Chicago
9
Issay Matsumoto
University of Southern California
10
Chad Shomura
University of Colorado Denver

Rising Stars Papers

1
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries
Journal of American Ethnic History|2024
60 cit.
2
Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
Journal of American Ethnic History|2024
46 cit.
3
Governing biodiversity: ambiguity and fragmentation in the BBNJ Agreement
Ocean & Coastal Management|2025
5 cit.
4
Volumetric, embodied and geologic geopolitics of the seabed: offshore tin mining in Indonesia
Territory Politics Governance|2024
4 cit.
5
“Our fish are not your marine biodiversity”: tensions in integrating fisheries into the BBNJ Agreement
npj Ocean Sustainability|2025
4 cit.
6
Intimate Outer Space: Towards a Politics of Gravity, Waste, and the Spatial Orientation of Bodies
GeoHumanities|2024
3 cit.
7
Becoming Hoa: Indigenous Political Thought and the Question of Settler Aloha 'Āina in Hawai'i
American Quarterly|2024
1 cit.
8
(Re)Mapping Native Denver and the Making of Native Assembled Counter-Cartographies
GeoHumanities|2024
1 cit.
9
Suburban Empire: Cold War Militarization in the US Pacific
Journal of American Ethnic History|2024
0 cit.
10
Vivian L. Huang, <i>Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability</i>
American Literary History|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Adam W. Coon
Miami University
2
Esther June Kim
William & Mary
3
Megan Segoshi
Film Independent
4
Korinta Maldonado
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5
Casey R. Lynch
Universitat de Girona
6
Kamuela Meheula
Unknown
7
Innez Haua
Macquarie University
8
Toulouse-Antonin Roy
University of California, Los Angeles
9
Kevin Lujan Lee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10
Tomoe Yahata
Unknown

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Toward a decolonial quantitative political science: Indigenous self-identification in the 2019 Native Hawaiian Survey
The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics|2022
30 cit.
2
Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure
Progress in Human Geography|2023
25 cit.
3
Glitch epistemology and the question of (artificial) intelligence: Perceptions, encounters, subjectivities
Dialogues in Human Geography|2022
22 cit.
4
Raising the carbonized forest: Science and technologies of singularization
Environment and Planning F|2024
13 cit.
5
Evolving spatialities of digital life: Troubling the smart city/home divide
Digital Geography and Society|2024
9 cit.
6
Rethinking urban AI: a critical posthumanist perspective on intelligence, autonomy, and agency
Urban Geography|2025
8 cit.
7
Robotics in place and the places of robotics: productive tensions across human geography and human–robot interaction
AI & Society|2024
6 cit.
8
On autonomy in <i>Frankenstein Urbanism</i>
Urban Geography|2024
5 cit.
9
Control and Resistance in Automated Shops: Retail Transparency, Deep Learning, and Digital Refusal
Antipode|2024
5 cit.
10
Contemporary Moana Mobilities: Settler-Colonial Citizenship, Upward Mobility, and Transnational Pacific Identities
˜The œContemporary Pacific/˜The œcontemporary Pacific (Online)|2022
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John W. Dower
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2
Jan Vansina
University of Wisconsin–Madison
3
Rey Chow
Duke University
4
David J. Rothman
Virginia Commonwealth University
5
Talal Asad
The Graduate Center, CUNY
6
Sumie Okazaki
Abu Dhabi Health Services
7
John Agnew
Syracuse University
8
Rubén Gaztambide‐Fernández
University of Toronto
9
Joseph Nevins
Vassar College
10
Paul Spickard
Brigham Young University–Hawaii

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory
Review of International Political Economy|1994
2.4k cit.
2
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1994
2.3k cit.
3
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
British Journal of Sociology|1974
1.9k cit.
4
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Monumenta Nipponica|2000
1.4k cit.
5
Place and Politics. The Geographical Mediation of State and Society
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers|1988
1.2k cit.
6
Literacy in Traditional Societies
African Historical Studies|1969
1.2k cit.
7
War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Foreign Affairs|1986
1.1k cit.
8
Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
South Central Review|1995
966 cit.
9
Oral Tradition as History
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1986
744 cit.
10
The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic
The William and Mary Quarterly|1973
734 cit.

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