Terumi Rafferty-Osaki

Terumi Rafferty-Osaki Terumi Rafferty-Osaki, PhD, is Associate Director of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships at Northeastern University, where he advises students on nationally and internationally competitive fellowships and assists in overseeing internal grant programs. He received his doctorate in 20th-century Asian American History from American University, where his dissertation, “'Strictly Masculine': Reforming and Performing Manhood at Tule Lake, 1942–1946,” examined the intersections of incarceration, gender, and Japanese American identity during World War II.

Terumi's scholarship has appeared in The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture anthology (McFarland), The NINE Journal, and the Journal of Asian American Studies, among other publications. His most recent, “The Logic and Lessons of Prestige and Practicality Forums,” appears in Writing the Future: Perspectives on Nationally Competitive Scholarships (University of Arkansas Press, 2025). He has also contributed entries to Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History.

In addition to his research and advising work, Terumi has presented at the Association for Asian American Studies, the Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, and the National Association of Fellowship Advisors (NAFA), on whose Executive Board he served from 2021 to 2025. He has also appeared on C-SPAN's Lectures in History and Washington Journal.