Notes on Contributors

Alvin Khiêm Bùi is Assistant Professor of History specializing in Asian and Asian diasporic histories at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He received his PhD in History from the University of Washington, Seattle, and has published in Asiascape: Digital Asia on Saigonese motorbike YouTubers and their diasporic Vietnamese audiences.Hardeep Dhillon is Assistant Professor of History and a core faculty member in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Her scholarship has appeared in Law & History Review, Smithsonian Magazine, The Historical Journal, and Time magazine, and is forthcoming in The Journal of American History and Western Historical Quarterly.Benjamin Francis-Fallon is the author of The Rise of the Latino Vote: A History (Harvard University Press, 2019), which won the Huntington Library's Shapiro Book Prize for outstanding first scholarly monograph in American history and the Américo Paredes Book Award for the best nonfiction work in Chicana/o and Latina/o studies. He received his PhD from Georgetown University and is a public historian based in Washington, DC.Michael R. Jin is Associate Professor of Global Asian Studies and History at the University of Illinois Chicago, where he specializes in migration and diaspora studies, transpacific borderlands, and Asian American history. He is the author of Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific (Stanford University Press).Lila Teeters Knolle is a lecturer in history and literature at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Indigenous and legal history, and her current project charts the history of the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act.Daniel P. Kotzin is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at William Jewell College. He is author of Judah L. Magnes: An American Jewish Non-Conformist (Syracuse University Press, 2010). His more recent research focuses on Irish American soldiers in the Union army.Enrique Seward Limon is a historian of the Modern Middle East and Global Middle East migrations and diasporas. He is a PhD student at the University of California Davis. He received his MA in History from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.Melanie S. Lorenz is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her dissertation discusses the experiences of formally trained immigrant midwives in the United States in the late nineteenth century.Maddalena Marinari is Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965 and of several articles on the history of immigration restriction in the United States. She has also co-edited several projects on different aspects of US immigration history in the twentieth century. She is the current president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of several award-winning books, including Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004) and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021). She has written on immigration history and policy for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the Nation, and Dissent.Yukako Otori is an associate professor in the Faculty of Letters at Keio University, Japan. Her book manuscript is tentatively titled “Americans by Design: Children and Childhood at the US Border, 1870s–1920s.”Mark E. Steiner is Professor of Law Emeritus at South Texas College of Law Houston. He received both his PhD in History and JD from the University of Houston. He is a pro bono attorney with Baker Ripley and other Houston-area nonprofits that provide immigration legal services. His latest book is Lincoln and Citizenship (Southern Illinois University Press, 2021).Leslie Torres is a PhD student in the Department of History at Texas A&M University. Torres's research centers on ethnic Mexican mobilization in reaction to racial violence and civil oppression in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Texas borderlands.