{"id":216,"date":"2013-09-26T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T22:24:40","slug":"supervision","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lmishiguro\/supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"Supervision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the specific projects vary, I typically work with undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, who are researching topics related to the history of British Columbia or Canada, with a particular emphasis on settler colonialism, empire, Asian Canadian histories, gender, race, identity and\/or community.<\/p>\n<p>As a supervisor, I look to offer tailored support designed to respect, grow, and nourish the work that each person is here to do; and, in so doing, to help to foster a collective and sustainable research culture rooted in equity, meaning, accessibility, and care.<\/p>\n<p>My supervision load is currently full and I am not accepting new applicants at this time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Postdoctoral supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Former postdoctoral fellows:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Jane Komori (PhD, UC Santa Cruz). Incoming as Provost&#8217;s Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Labor, Migration, and Racial Capitalism in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her research publications include:\n<ul>\n<li>Jane Komori, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalmaterialism.org\/articles\/canadian-war-two-sugars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Canadian &#8216;War of the Two Sugars&#8217;: Homegrown Sugar Beets and the Racial Stratification of Labour<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory<\/em> 31, 2 (May 2023).<\/li>\n<li>Jane Komori, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apjjf.org\/2022\/16\/Komori.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;Guilt by Association&#8217;: Japanese Canadians and the Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day<\/a>,&#8221; <em>The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus<\/em> 20, 16 (2022): 1-15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Meghan Longstaffe (PhD, University of British Columbia). Her research publications include:\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Meghan Longstaffe, &#8220;Indigenous women as newspaper representations: Violence and action in 1960s Vancouver,&#8221; <i>Canadian Historical Review<\/i> 98, 2 (2017): 230-260. This piece won the 2018 Hilda Neatby Prize from the Canadian Committee in Women\u2019s and Gender History.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graduate supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Current graduate students:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nicole Yakashiro (PhD candidate). Her research publications include:\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"gs_citr\" tabindex=\"0\">Nicole Yakashiro, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3138\/uhr.48.2.03\">&#8216;Powell Street is dead&#8217;: Nikkei Loss, Commemoration, and Representations of Place in the Settler Colonial City<\/a>,&#8221; <i>Urban History Review<\/i> 48, 2 (2021): 32-55.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Yakashiro, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.14288\/bcs.vi211.193988\">Daffodils and Dispossession: Nikkei Settlers, White Possession, and Settler Colonial Property in Bradner, BC, 1914-51<\/a>,&#8221; <em>BC Studies <\/em>211 (Autumn 2021): 49-78. This piece won the 2021 BC Studies Prize.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Former graduate students:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bailey Irene Midori Hoy, MA. Thesis: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/soa\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0445315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Stampede Queen and Miss Ghost Town : nationalism, community, and futurity in Japanese Canadian queen pageants, 1943-1953<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Rose Twiss, MA. Thesis: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2429\/81263\">&#8216;Hail to the Queen of the May!&#8217; Settler Futurity, Childhood, and the May Queens of New Westminster, 1858-1939<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Yakashiro, MA. Thesis: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0380621\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daffodils as Property: Settler Colonial Renewal and the Dispossession of Nikkei Farmers in the 1940s<\/a>.\u201d A revised version of this research was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/bcstudies.com\/issue-single\/bc-studies-no-211-autumn-2021\/\"><em>BC Studies <\/em>211 (Autumn 2021)<\/a>, which won the 2021 BC Studies Prize.<\/li>\n<li>Dane Allard, MA (co-supervised with Paige Raibmon). Thesis: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0380751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weaving and Baking Nation: The Recognition Politics of the M\u00e9tis Sash and Bannock in the 1990s<\/a>.\u201d A revised version of this research was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/23\/article\/904182\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Native American and Indigenous Studies <\/em>10, 2 (Fall 2023)<\/a>, which won the 2024 NAISA Most Thought-Provoking Article Award.<\/li>\n<li>Devin Eeg, MA. Thesis: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0347684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Race, Labour, and the Architecture of White Jobs: Chinese Labour in British Columbia\u2019s Salmon Canning Industry, 1871-1941<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graduate committees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Current graduate dissertation\/thesis committees:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kyrie Vermette &#8211; PhD (Asian Studies), gender, colonialism, and women&#8217;s history in Korea, 1884-1945.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Fox &#8211; PhD (History), &#8220;At Home in the Plume: Histories of Unruly Waste and Reckoning in the Pacific Northwest&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Nila Ayu Utami &#8211; PhD (History), &#8220;Othering and Belonging: Indigeneity and the Native Stranger in 20th-Century Indonesia&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Sun &#8211; PhD (History), &#8220;Enemy Aliens or Destitute Refugees? Jewish Internment in Hong Kong and Singapore (1936-1941)&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Former graduate dissertation\/thesis committees:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Henry John, PhD (History), &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/soa\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0434647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A War in the Woods? Environmentalisms, Old Growth Forests, and the Labour Movement on Southern Vancouver Island, 1970-1995<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Meghan Longstaffe, PhD (History), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0396954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gendered Precarity and the Politics of Care: Histories of Homelessness, Home, and Community-Making in in Downtown Eastside Vancouver.<\/a>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Haruho Kubota, MA (Educational Studies), &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0394153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">T<span dir=\"ltr\">he Stories of Eleven Japanese Canadian <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Teachers<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">: <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Colouring Racial Barriers into <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\">Teacher Training, Certification, and Hiring Processes in British Columbia, 1916-1942.&#8221;<\/span><\/a> This work won the 2021 CAF\u00c9 (Canadian Association of Foundation of Education) Outstanding Master&#8217;s Thesis Award.<\/li>\n<li>Emmett Chan, MA (Asian Studies), &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0392705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Relearning Religious Practice when Home is Across the Sea: The Case of Tenriky\u014d<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Rosalynd Boxall, MA (History), \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0380552\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Settler Colonial Paradox of T.C. Douglas and the CCF in Saskatchewan, 1945-1962<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michael Buse, MA (History), \u201c\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/ubctheses\/24\/items\/1.0380534\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Shrine of their Memory\u2019: Settler Colonialism and the Construction of American Heritage at Metini-Fort Ross, 1845-1906<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>PhD comprehensive exam fields regularly supervised:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global histories of empire, (settler) colonialism, and\/or decolonization.<\/li>\n<li>Canadian history.<\/li>\n<li>History of the North American West.<\/li>\n<li>British Empire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Undergraduate supervision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Former Honours students:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emma Quan.<\/li>\n<li>Sara Livingston.<\/li>\n<li>Laura Moberg, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/undergraduateresearch\/52966\/items\/1.0394175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Writing Respectability: Gender, Race, and Class in the Travel Journal of Susannah Weynton, 1949-1851<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Beulah Lee, \u201cWriting Chinese Canadian Resistance: Expressions of Cultural Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the <em>Chinatown News<\/em>, 1953-66.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alice Gorton, \u201cCivilized, Roughly: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Leisure in the Cariboo Gold Rush, 1860-1871.\u201d\n<ul>\n<li>A revised version of this research was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/bcstudies\/article\/view\/191477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>BC Studies<\/em> 200 (Winter 2018-19)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anna Gooding, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/cIRcle\/collections\/undergraduateresearch\/52966\/items\/1.0229560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Policing Women: Clubswomen, Policewomen, and Delinquent Girls in Vancouver, 1910-1930<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Read, \u201cFeminine Futures: Maternal Authority in the Early Years of <em>The Girl\u2019s Own Paper<\/em>, 1880-1882.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lindsey Moore, \u201cContested Historical Terrain: A Consideration of the Settler Narratives of Powell River, 1960-2002.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Benjamin Lewis, \u201cThe Language of British Abolitionism: Evangelicalism and the Middle Class, 1787-1807.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Although the specific projects vary, I typically work with undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, who are researching topics related to the history of British Columbia or Canada, with a particular emphasis on settler colonialism, empire, Asian Canadian histories, gender, race, identity and\/or community. 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