Announcement: Institute on California and the West: In Conversation with Anne Soon Choi, 3 November 2016

Denise Spooner Discussion


ICW In Conversation with
Anne Soon Choi
Thursday, November 3, 2016
12:00 - 1:00pm
The Huntington
EVC, Melanie's Classroom

Recreating the Aloha Spirit: Japanese Americans from Hawai'i and the Postwar American Dream
Anne Soon Choi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). She is trained as a historian and a gerontologist and is a specialist in immigration history and community-based care for older adults. Before her appointment at CSUDH, Choi was on the faculty at the University of Kansas. She has also held postdoctoral fellowships at Swarthmore College and UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of Southern California and her MPH and MSW from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has appeared in Amerasia, American Studies, Acta Koreana, and Health and Social Care in the Community. Her book project "Recreating the Aloha Spirit: Japanese Americans from Hawai'i and Postwar Suburbanization in Southern California" is under contract with University of Hawai'i Press.