Michael R. Jin

Michael R. Jin is a historian of the American West, Asian America, and the Pacific world. He teaches in the Global Asian Studies Program and the History Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. He is the author of Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2021), which uncovers the history of more than 50,000 U.S.-born Japanese American migrants across multiple national and colonial borders between the U.S. and Japanese empires before, during, and after World War II.