THE ENEMY ALIEN FILES: Hidden Stories of WWII

SCHOLARS and ADVISORS

JOHN CHRISTGAU, author, “Enemies”: World War II Alien Internment (1985, 2001).

LAWRENCE DISTASI, President, American Italian Historical Association-Western Regional Chapter; Project Director, Una Storia Segreta: When Italian Americans Were ‘Enemy’ Aliens (traveling exhibition, 1994); author, Una Storia Segreta: The Secret History of Italian American Evacuation and Internment During World War II  (2001).

KAREN EBEL, Esq., daughter of former German internee; advocate for public education concerning and legislative recognition of German American and German Latin American civil liberties violations.

STEPHEN FOX, PhD, History; author, The Unknown Internment: An Oral History Of The Relocation Of Italian Americans During WWlI (1990) (republished as UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege During WWII (2000)) and America's Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment and Exclusion—Memory and History (2000).

ISAO FUJIMOTO, Director Emeritus, Asian American Studies Program, and Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Community Studies and Development, UC Davis; researcher on Japanese aliens interned in Department of Justice camps.

TETSUDEN KASHIMA, PhD; Professor, American Ethnic Studies, Adjunct Professor, Sociology, University of Washington; author of manuscript, Judgment Without Trial:  Japanese American Imprisonment During World War II (forthcoming August 2003).

ARNOLD KRAMMER, PhD, History; Professor, Texas A&M University; author, Undue Process: The Untold Story Of America's German Alien Internees and Nazi Prisoners of War In America, 1942-45 (1997).

WAYNE MAEDA, MA, History; Instructor, Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments, California State University, Sacramento; historical consultant, Children Of The Camps (PBS documentary, 1999); guest curator, A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans and the Constitution (traveling exhibition, 1998).

ORLANDO MARTINEZ, MA, Education; Bilingual Instructor, Hayward Unified School District; volunteer, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project.

KAREN PARKER, Esq.; expert in humanitarian (armed conflict) law and advocate for non-governmenta1 organizations at the United Nations on such issues as armed conflict laws, ecology, human rights, self-determination, disability, WWII war-rape victims; attorney for former Japanese Peruvian internees seeking redress.

ROSHNI RUSTOMJI-KERNS, PhD, Comparative Literature; Visiting Scholar and Consulting Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University; contributor, People Of South Asia In The United States (NEH traveling photo exhibit, 1984-85); editor of anthology, Encounters: People Of Asian Descent In The Americas.

ROSE SCHERINI, PhD, Educational Anthropology; Vice President, American Italian Historical Association-Western Regional Chapter; Curator, Una Storia Segreta: When Italian Americans Were ‘Enemy’ Aliens (traveling exhibition, 1994).

ART SHIBAYAMA, former Japanese Peruvian interned at Crystal City Internment Camp, Texas; founding member, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project.

GRACE SHIMIZU, Director, Japanese Peruvian Oral History Project; Project Director, Japanese Latin American Educational Outreach Project (CLPEF, 1998)

RON TAKAKI, PhD, History; Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; author, Strangers From A Different Shore and A Different Mirror; advisor to President Clinton on race relations.

ROSALYN TONAI, MPA. Non-Profit Management, University of San Francisco; Executive Director, National Japanese American Historical Society; Project Director/Curator, Strength and Diversity—Japanese American Women, 1885 to 1990 (exhibition, CCH, 1989), Latent August—The Legacy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (exhibition, CCH, 1994); Development and Exhibition Consultant, Diamonds In The Rough—Japanese Americans In Baseball (1997).

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