Wendy Matsumura
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Wendy Matsumura is an associate professor of modern Japanese history and Okinawa studies in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). She earned her Ph.D. in history from New York University. Her academic research focuses on modern Japanese history, the history of the Ryukyu Kingdom/Okinawa, Japanese empire and imperialism, labor history, agrarian transformations, class formation, and critical race and ethnic studies. She is the author of The Limits of Okinawa: Jap
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• University of California, San Diego (Associate Professor of History)
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Wendy Matsumura is an associate professor of modern Japanese history and Okinawa studies in the Department of History at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego). She earned her Ph.D. in history from New York University. Her academic research focuses on modern Japanese history, the history of the Ryukyu Kingdom/Okinawa, Japanese empire and imperialism, labor history, agrarian transformations, class formation, and critical race and ethnic studies. She is the author of The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (2015), which analyzes the economic and social transformations in Okinawa under Japanese state rule.