{"id":2,"date":"2013-04-12T19:49:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:43:45","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"st\"><strong>Hello and thanks for visiting!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My name is Laura Ishiguro (she\/her).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">I am a settler belonging to Japanese (Nikkei) and hakujin (white, primarily British) families. I grew up on unceded <\/span>W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 and l\u0259k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u014b\u0259n territories on southern Vancouver Island, and now\u00a0 live on\u00a0 unceded x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m, S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh, and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0313\u0259ta\u026c territories, where I work at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">At UBC, I am the Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/acam.arts.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies<\/a> and an Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of History<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"st\">I am also a Faculty Associate at the UBC <a href=\"https:\/\/grsj.arts.ubc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice<\/a>, and a Wilson Associate of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilson Institute for Canadian History<\/a> at McMaster University. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>I completed my BA Honours in History at the University of Victoria, my MA in History at Simon Fraser University, and my <a href=\"http:\/\/discovery.ucl.ac.uk\/1334453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PhD in History at University College London<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My research specializations include British Columbia, Canada, and British imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; settler colonialism; Nikkei history; gender, family, society, and the everyday. I am most inspired by methodological play at the edges of disciplinary convention, and historical work that seeks to cultivate better futures. I teach courses on histories of Canada and global empires\/comparative colonialism, and supervise Honours and graduate students in related fields. My professional and community service is propelled by a commitment to equity and the justice work that historical thinking might do in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Beyond this, I am interested in the politics of humour and graffiti, unofficial or unsanctioned historical memorials, rain, vegetables, the long run, the skateboard, and genre fiction. These are not technically my work, but they certainly aren&#8217;t unrelated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Header image: from Gamadiis (L. Ishiguro, 2019).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and thanks for visiting! My name is Laura Ishiguro (she\/her). I am a settler belonging to Japanese (Nikkei) and hakujin (white, primarily British) families. I grew up on unceded W\u0331S\u00c1NE\u0106 and l\u0259k\u0313\u02b7\u0259\u014b\u0259n territories on southern Vancouver Island, and now\u00a0 live on\u00a0 unceded x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m, S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh, and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0313\u0259ta\u026c territories, where I work at the University of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15739,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}