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Fields of Interest
Biography
Research
Selected Research
- Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Print.
- Jung, Moon-Ho. The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. Print.
- Jung, Moon-Ho. Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print.
Research Advised
- Quintana, Maria. Contracting Freedom: Race, Empire, and U.S. Labor Importation Programs, 1942-1964. Diss. University of Washington, 2016. Chairs: James Gregory and Moon-Ho Jung.
- Bernardo, Joseph. From 'Little Brown Brothers' to 'Forgotten Asian Americans': Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles. Diss. University of Washington, 2014. Chair: Moon-Ho Jung.
- Kindig, Jessie. War for Peace: Race, Empire and the Korean War. Diss. University of Washington, 2014. Chairs: James Gregory and Moon-Ho Jung.
- Sohi, Seema. Echoes Of Mutiny: Race, Empire, And Indian Anticolonialism In North America. Diss. University of Washington, 2008. Chair: Moon-Ho Jung.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Autumn 2024
Spring 2024
Autumn 2023
Spring 2023
Spring 2022
Winter 2022
Graduate Study Areas
Division: United States
The field of Asian American history encompasses a broad range of topics and methodologies that often cross disciplinary and geopolitical boundaries. Students pursuing this field are expected to read widely and critically, with an emphasis on historiographical shifts and debates. In particular, they will investigate how the field has evolved over time and challenged and reproduced traditional narratives of U.S. history. Students are also encouraged to converse with a vibrant community of faculty and graduate students specializing in Asian American Studies at UW.
Division: Comparative History (Comparative Ethnicity & Nationalism)
Students will explore how race and nation have been articulated in U.S. history, framed theoretically and globally. Students may choose to emphasize particular time periods, theoretical approaches, and geopolitical frameworks as they study how racial concepts, representations, and practices shaped American national identities. Possible topics of concentration include whiteness, imperialism, labor migration, and transnational social movements.
Related News
Related News
- History department Faculty and Students Win Numerous Simpson Center Awards (June 9, 2023)
- Professor Moon-Ho Jung launches new book Menace to Empire (May 10, 2022)
- History Alumnus Allan Lumba publishes first book Monetary Authorities (May 10, 2022)
- New book forthcoming: Menace to Empire by Professor Moon-Ho Jung (November 3, 2021)
- Undergraduate Historian Makes the Husky 100 (April 6, 2018)
- Spring Message from Anand Yang, Chair, Department of History (April 6, 2018)
- Event Spotlight: Putting The Past to Use, #historyconnects. (February 20, 2018)
- Race and Racial Justice in the Context of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election (June 8, 2017)
- History in Action: Department Supports Ferguson Teach-In (February 10, 2015)
- Three History Faculty Members to Receive Awards of Excellence (March 25, 2014)
- Professor Jung Interviewed About History of Sugar in America (February 18, 2014)