Asian-American Specialist Wins Third Major Honor for Study of Race and Transnationalism
March 2006
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Eiichiro Azuma, assistant professor of history and Asian American studies, has been awarded the 2005 Theodore Saloutos Prize by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society for his recent book, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism. The prize is presented to the author of the most outstanding book on American immigration and ethnic history.
Earlier, Azuma's book received the Hiroshi Shimizu Award from the Japanese Association for American Studies. This award goes to the author of the best book in the field that is either published in Japan or written by an association member. Between Two Empires also received an honorable mention in the competition for the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, which is awarded by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on some significant phase of American history.
Azuma's book has been praised as "firmly grounded in empirical evidence and theoretically sophisticated." Another reviewer calls it "an exemplary work of enduring significance."
Eiichiro Azuma specializes in Asian-American history with an emphasis on Japanese-American experiences as well as emigration/immigration, modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations.