Naoko Shibusawa

Naoko Shibusawa (Northwestern PhD., MA; UC Berkeley, BA) is an Associate Professor of History at Brown University. Born in Japan and raised in Houston, Texas, she studies U.S. political culture and teaches courses on U.S. capitalist imperialism. In addition to her first book, America’s Geisha Ally (Harvard, 2006), she has written on transnational Asian American identities, Cold War ideologies, gender and imperialism, the Lavender Scare, the Kinsey Report, and racial capitalist modernity. She is currently working on two books: Liberal Blinders: Ideologies of U.S. Capitalist Imperialism and Queer Betrayals: The Treason Trial of John David Provoo. In 2022, Brown University severely sanctioned Shibusawa “Where is the Reciprocity: Notes on Solidarity from the Field,” for publishing a peer-reviewed article, [1] in the Journal of Asian American Studies. Shibusawa has also been doxed by the Canary Mission [2] for her support of Palestinian freedom.