Eri Kitada is a historian of race, gender/sexuality, and colonialism in the United States and the Asia-Pacific region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her book manuscript, “Intimate Convergence: Fragmented Agents across Diasporas, Imperialisms, and Indigeneity, 1903–1956,” examines the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the US colonial Philippines.
2025-2028 Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo
2024-2025 Research Fellow, Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu University
2016-2023 PhD Student & Candidate, Department of History, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Book Chapters and Articles
1. “Who are Japanese Filipino Descendants?: Japan’s Imperial History and the Community’s Ongoing Social Movement” in Multiculturalism and the Experiences of Ethnic Minorities in Japan (In Japanese: 「フィリピン日系人とは誰か：日本の帝国主義の歴史とかれらの現在進行形の社会運動」長村裕佳子・坪谷美欧子・蘭信三編『多文化共生と民族的マイノリティという経験』、明石書店、2025年4月出版予定)。
2. “Filipinx: The History and Legacy of American Colonialism” in Fifty Chapters to Learn about Asian America (In Japanese:「フィリピン系：アメリカ植民地主義の歴史と人々の今」李里花編『アジア系アメリカを知るための53章』明石書店、2024年), 102-107.
3. “Fragments of Multi-Layered Settler Colonialism: Mixed-Race Children in Japanese Schooling, the American Philippines, 1924–1945,” Settler Colonial Studies 13 No. 4 (2023): 555-574.
4. “Japanese Mixed-Race Children in the Philippines, Then and Now!,” Not from Here: Immigration and Ethnic History Society Online, August 13, 2021, https://iehs.org/japanese-mixed-race-children-in-the-philippines-then-and-now/
5. “All the World’s a Classroom” (with Tracey Johnson, Meagan Wierda, and Joseph Williams) in Scarlet and Black, Volume Two: Constructing Race and Gender at Rutgers, 1865-1945 edited by Kendra Boyd, Marisa J. Fuentes, Deborah Gray White, 7-38. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. (2022 New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award in the edited non-fiction category)
6. “Commemorating Racial Violence: Street Naming and Segregation in New York City, 1999,” Nanzan Review of American Studies 38 (2016): 21-34.
Public-engaged Publication
1. “What We Forget When We ‘Remember Pearl Harbor’,” Washington Post, December 7, 2021, https://wapo.st/3WdffGF
2. “Rethinking Japan’s Attack on the ‘Pearl Harbor’ from the Perspective of Japanese Filipinos (In Japanese:「真珠湾」攻撃80周年をフィリピン日系人の視点から再考する),” Synodos, December 8, 2021, https://synodos.jp/opinion/international/27572/
2025 Finalist for the Charlotte J. Conroy Dissertation Prize, Modern Japan History Association.
2023 Bernadotte Schmitt Grant, American Historical Association.
2022-2023 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies.
2022 Lawrence Gelfand-Armin Rappaport-Walter LaFeber Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
2019-2020 Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council.
2019 Usha Mahajani Memorial Prize from the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute and the Association for Asian Studies.
2016-2018 Fulbright IIE Foreign Student Program.
