Naoko Wake

After completing her M.A. at Kyoto University, Japan, Naoko Wake studied U.S. history at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is Professor of History and former Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University. She has authored American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cambridge, 2021) and Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism (Rutgers, 2011), and co-authored Hiroshima/Nagasaki Beyond the Ocean (Yuruki Books, 2014) with a documentary filmmaker Shinpei Takeda. Her work has appeared in American Historical Review, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, Gender and History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, and History of Psychology, among others. She has created the largest oral history collection of Asian American survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in the world, housed in MSU’s Robert G. Vincent Voice Library and in the Densho Digital Repository. Her current project concerns the histories of disability, archives, and literature in Asian America/Pacific Islands.