Allan W. Austin

Allan W. Austin is Professor of History at Misericordia University in Dallas, Pennsylvania. His publications include From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Asian American History and Culture: An Encyclopedia (M. E. Sharpe, 2010, co-edited with Huping Ling); Quaker Brotherhood: Interracial Activism and the American Friends Service Committee, 1917-1950 (University of Illinois Press, 2012); All New, All Different: A History of Race and the American Superhero (University of Texas Press, 2019); and Space and Time: Essays on Visions of History in Science Fiction and Fantasy Television (McFarland & Co., 2010, co-edited with David C. Wright Jr.). He has also explored Japanese American history via popular culture in a variety of essays, examining memory and mass incarceration in media such as romance novels, Superman’s World War II adventures in Fleischer cartoons, movies, and Star Trek.