Publications and Special Projects
"What If Heroes Were Not Welcome Home?" Traveling Exhibit
(co-curated with Marsha Matthews/Oregon Historical Society):
Japanese American Museum of Oregon, Portland, OR (February - March 2023)
The History Museum of Hood River County, Hood River, OR (August - Dec. 2022)
Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (May 2023 - )
independence History Museum, Independence, OR (Spring/Summer 2022)
Lincoln County History Museum, LIncoln City, OR (Fall 2021)
Orange County Agriculture & Nikkei Heritage Museum, Fullerton Arboretum, Fullerton, CA (February 2017)
Oregon State Capitol, Salem, OR (November 2016)
Willamette Heritage Center, Salem, OR (June - July 2016)
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, OR (March 2015 - July 5, 2015)
Lane County Historical Museum, Eugene, OR (November 2014 - March 2015)
Deschutes Historical Museum, Bend, OR (September - October 2014)
Klamath County Museum, Klamath Falls, OR (July - August 2014)
Idaho Arts Council/College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID (May 2014 - June 2014)
Four Rivers Cultural Center, Ontario, OR (March - April 2014)
History Museum of Hood River, Hood River, OR (January - February 2014)
Some Other Publications:
"Mom's Gifts," Asian American Writing, June 2020
https://mailchi.mp/c4a8e84e63d0/moms-gifts?e=197084a945
"Sherman Burgoyne," "John E. Dahlquist," "Disciplinary Barrack Boys/DB Boys," "Hood River Incident," "Shizue Iwatsuki,"
"League for Liberty & Justice," "Arline Moore," "Kinzo Suzuki," "Masuo Yasui," Densho Encyclopedia (densho.org), February - May 2015
"What Would You Do? If Heroes Were Not Welcome?" (with Marsha Matthews), Oregon Historical Quarterly, Summer 2013
"Following 'The Circuit,'" Oregon English Journal, Oregon Council of Teachers of English, Spring 2009
"Ironic Heroes: 'The Enemy's Our Cousin,'" The COLUMBIA, Washington State Historical Society, Spring 2006
"Wrong Face, Wrong Name: The Return of Japanese American Veterans to Hood River, Oregon After WWII" in
Remapping Asian American History, Sucheng Chan, ed., AltaMira Press, Dec. 2003
"A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Shizue Iwatsuki," Oregon Historical Quarterly, Fall 2002
Turning Points in Teaching: Narrative Reflection on Professional Practice (co-edited with K. D. Hamlin & R. Fromherz),
Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts, Supplemental Series 8, 2001
"Preparing Teachers to Recognize Multiple Perspectives" (with P. Nelson and T. Ford-Stevenson), Multicultural Education,
National Association of Multicultural Education, Spring 1998
"No Longer Strangers," Educational Leadership, Feb. 1996
Some Special Projects/Events:
Co-editor-in-chief (with U. Hardt and J. LaLande), The Oregon Encyclopedia, Oregon Historical Society, 2007 - present
www.oregonencyclopedia.org
Advisory Board, National Veterans Network
Co-curator and writer, "Grace, Grit & Gaman: Generations of Japanese American Women," Japanese American Museum of Oregon exhibit, May 2021. - June 2022.
Dramaturg & education consultant, "The Diary of Ben Uchida," Oregon Children's Theatre, 2020
"Nevertheless They Persevered," 19th Amendment exhibit, advisory committee, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR, 2019 - 2020
Advisory Board and Interpretive Master Plan Committee, Oregon Nikkei Endowment, Portland, OR, 2005 - present
Advisory Committee, Education Programs, Oregon Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education, Portland, OR, 2018 -
present
Stakeholder Committee, "Oregon, My Oregon" exhibit redesign, Oregon Historical Society, 2018-19
Senior Fellow, American Leadership Forum of Oregon
Advisory Council & Advisor, Digital Archives & Educational Curricula, Go For Broke National Education Center, Los Angeles, CA
Consultant, Historic Fort Snelling, Minnesota Historical Society, 2016
Member, Oregon's Kitchen Table Advisory Committee
Oregon history collections, Densho (Japanese American legacy project), 11 interviews, www.densho.org
Narrator, "Shikataganai," documentary on Hood River Japanese Americans, History Museum of Hood River,
Hood River, OR, Fall 2012
Co-coordinator (with Ellen Eisenberg), Day of Remembrance and dedication of permanent site commemorating Nisei
students forced to leave school during World War II, Willamette University, Salem, OR, April 2011
Coordinator, community programs accompanying "A More Perfect Union," Smithsonian institution traveling exhibit
(with 10 institutions/organizations), Portland and Salem, OR, 1998
Secretary and executive board member, Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education
(AILACTE), 1995-98
Some Recognitions:
Heroic Contributions Plaque for Enriching the History & Legacy of the JA Community, Orange County Agriculture & Nikkei
Heritage Museum at Fullerton Arboretum, Feb. 2017
Certificate of Recognition from the City of Hood River, Hood River County Board of Commissioners & the History Museum of
Hood River County, March 2017
John McClelland Award, best article in Columbia during 2006, Washington State Historical Society, 2007
United Methodist Award for Exemplary Teaching & Service, Willamette University, 2003
Woman of Achievement, Salem YWCA, 1997
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