Donna K. Nagata

Donna Nagata is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She received her A.B. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research has explored the long-term psychosocial impacts of the Japanese American incarceration. She is author of the book The Legacy of Injustice: Exploring the Cross-Generational Impact of the Japanese American Internment and additional journal articles and chapters on the incarceration including "Coping and Resilience Across Generations: Japanese Americans and the World War II Internment", "Forever Foreigners: Intergenerational Impacts of Historical Trauma from the World War II Japanese American Incarceration", "The Japanese American Wartime Incarceration: Examining the Scope of Racial Trauma", and "Transgenerational Impacts of Trauma Among World War II Japanese American Incarceration Survivors’ Grandchildren".