Dr. Meredith Oda explores the Japanese-American WWII incarceration and its effects on Asian Americans before and after the war. The treatment of Japanese-Americans during the war gives us a better understanding of the rise of anti-Asian hate today.

Meredith Oda is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her first book, "The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco" (Chicago, 2018), was a transpacific urban history of San Francisco. She is currently working on a book on Japanese-American resettlement from WWII incarceration camps from 1942 until the 1952 Walter-McCarran Immigration and Nationality Act.