Gail Nomura
Adjunct Assistant Professor: Asian American History
gmnomura@u.washington.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Hawaii at Manoa 1978
Selected Bibliography
co-editor (with Louis Fiset), Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese
Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twemtieth Century, Seattle:
University of Washington Press, in press.
"Becoming 'Local' Japanese: Issei Adaptive Strategies on the Yakama
Indian Reservation, 1906-1923," in Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura,
Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians
in the Twentieth Century, Seattle: University of Washington Press,
in press.
Teiko Tomita entry in Susan Ware, ed., Notable American Women,
Harvard University Press, in press.
co-editor (with Shirley Hune), Asian/ Pacific Islander American Women:
A Historical Anthology, NYU Press, 2003.
"Introduction: On Our Terms: Definitions and Context," in Shirley
Hune and Gail M. Nomura, Asian/Pacific American Women, A Historical
Anthology, (New York: New York University Press, 2003, 16-22.
"Filipina American Journal Writing: Recovering Women's History,"
in Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura, Asian/Pacific American Women, A
Historical Anthology, (New York: New York University Press, 2003,
138-152.
"Historical Background and Terminology of Japanese American Incarceration,"
in Mike Mackey, ed., A Matter of Conscience, Essays on the World War
II Heart Mountain Draft Resistance Movement, Powell, WY: Western History
Publications, 2002, 11-20.
"Nikkei Amerika josei no ayumi" (The History of Japanese American
Women), in Harumi Befu, ed. Nikkei Amerika-jin no ayumi to genzai (Japanese
Americans, Past and Present), Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin, 2002, 97-130.
"Peace Empowers": The Testimony of Aki Kurose, a Woman of Color
in the Pacific Northwest, in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
[Special Issue: Women's West], XXII:3 (2001): 75-92.
"Tsugiki, A Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington
State," in Karen J. Blair, ed. Women in Pacific Northwest History,
revised edition, University of Washington Press, 2001, 284-308. First
published in Karen J. Blair, ed. Women in Pacific Northwest History:
An Anthology, University of Washington Press, 1988, 207-229. A revised
version was published in Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage, eds., Writing
the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West, University
of Oklahoma Press, 1997, 493-512. A shortened version was published in
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (1987): 15-37.
[This publication also has been used as a basis for part of a play and
a Washington State Suprintendant for Public Instruction (SPI) curriculum
project, a KCTS TV short documentary on Teiko Tomita, and a centennial
brochure on Peoples of Washington.]
"Beyond Black and White: Midwest Asian Americans and Affirmative
Action," in Michigan Advisory Committee to the United States Commission
on Civil Rights, Michigan Consultation: Focus on Affirmative Action,
1998, 71-76.
"Japanese American Women.," in Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink,
Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, eds. The Reader's Companion
to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998, 288-290.
"Asian American Frontiers," in Frontiers: A Journal of Women
Studies, XVII:3 (1996): 12-13.
"Significant Lives: Asia and Asian Americans in the History of the
U.S. West," in Western Historical Quarterly, 25:1 (1994):
69-88.
"Significant Lives: Asia and Asian Americans in the U.S. West ,"
in Clyde Milner, ed., A New Signficance: Re-envisioning the History
of the American West, Oxford University Press, 1996, 135-157. An earlier
version of this essay appeared under the title "Significant Lives:
Asia and Asian Americans in the History of the U.S. West," in Western
Historical Quarterly, 25:1 (1994): 69-88.
"Within the Law: The Establishment of Filipino Leasing Rights on
the Yakima Indian Reservation," in Charles McClain, ed., Asian
Indians, Filipinos, Other Asian Communities and the Law, volume 4
of Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,
Garland Publishing, Inc. 1994, 49-67 A reprint of article with same title
in Amerasia Journal, 13:1 (1986-87): 99-117 and reprinted as "History
of Filipinos in Yakima Valley, Washington: The Fight for a 'Place to Stay'"
in Ang Katipunan, Newsmagazine of the Union of Democratic Filipinos,
13:6 (June 1987): 12-14.
"Asian American Views of Japan and the Japanese: Past and Present,"
National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA) Research Report
Series, December 1993, Tokyo, Japan.
"Beyond a Level Playing Field: The Significance of Pre-World War
II Japanese American Baseball in the Yakima Valley," in Linda Revilla,
et. al, Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives,
Washington State University Press, 1993, 15-31.
co-editor (with Linda A. Revilla, Shawn Wong, and Shirley Hune), Bearing
Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives, Washington
State University Press, 1993.
"Issei Women: Hawaii and the Mainland," in Akemi Kikumura,
ed., Issei Pioneers: Hawaii and the Mainland, 1885-1924, Los Angeles:
Japanese American National Museum, 1992, pp. 13-16
[with Stephen H. Sumida], "University of Michigan Asian/Pacific
American Studies Status Report," Proceedings, Cornell Symposium on
Asian America: "East of California: New Perspectives in Asian American
Studies," Ithaca: Cornell Asian American Studies Program, 1992, pp.
113-125.
Asian/Pacific American Historic Context Document Overview, prepared for
the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, State of Washington,
1992.
[The context document won the 1993 Washington Trust for Historic Preservation
prize for outstanding publication]
co-editor (with Russell Endo, Stephen H. Sumida, and Russell C. Leong),
Frontiers of Asian American Studies: Writing, Research, and Commentary,
Washington State University Press, 1989.
"Washington's Asian/Pacific American Communities," in Sid White
and S. E. Solberg, eds., Peoples of Washington: Perspectives on Cultural
Diversity, Washington State University Press, 1989, 113-155.
[This book won the Governor's Writers Award and was selected as the best
of centennial books in the state of Washington.]
"Issei Working Women in Hawaii," in Asian Women United of California,
ed. Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings on Asian American Women,
Beacon Press, 1989,135-148 .
"Tsugiki, A Grafting: A History of a Japanese Pioneer Woman in Washington
State," Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 14 (1987):
15-37. A shortened version of chapter with same title in Karen J. Blair,
ed. Women in Pacific Northwest History: An Anthology, University
of Washington Press, 1988, 207-229.
"Within the Law: The Establishment of Filipino Leasing Rights on
the Yakima Indian Reservation," Amerasia Journal, 13:1 (1986-87):
99-117. Reprinted as "History of Filipinos in Yakima Valley, Washington:
The Fight for a 'Place to Stay'" in Ang Katipunan, Newsmagazine
of the Union of Democratic Filipinos, 13:6 (June 1987): 12-14.
"The Debate over the Prewar Role of Nisei in Hawaii: The New Americans
Conference, 1927-1941," The Journal of Ethnic Studies, 15:1
(Spring 1987): 95-115.
"Rodo undo no uzu no naka no josei" (Women in the Midst of
the Whirlpool of the Labor Movement). In Shiso no kagaku kenkyukai. Nihon
senryogun, sono hikari to kage (The Military Occupation of Japan:
The Light and the Shadow). Tokyo: Tokuma shoten, 1978.
Eiji Takemae with Gail M. Nomura. "Sohyo and U.S.. Occupation Labor
Policy: An interview with Valery Burati." Journal of the Tokyo
College of Economics, nos. 97-98 (1976): 253-294.
Research in Progress
Contested Terrain: "Local" Japanese on the Yakama Indian Reservation,
1906-1942 (book manuscript)
Japanese Americans at Midwestern Crossroads
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