Research Focus
Kristin Roebuck is an historian of the modern world, specializing in Japan, US-Japan relations, and intra-Asian relations. Her research interests encompass the history of the body, medicine, and law; war, alliance, and international relations; race, gender, and eugenics; family and childhood; and trafficking and abolition.
Publications
Scholarship
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鈥淒e-Provincializing Eugenics: The Persistence of 鈥楻ace Hygiene鈥 in Japan after Its Decline in the West.鈥 In Asia and Africa across Disciplinary and National Lines (Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press, 2015).
Mass Media
"." NBC News (31 Oct. 2021).
"." The Hill (30 April 2019).
"Japan, U.S. Face Legacies of Forced Sterilization." , National Public Radio (25 Oct. 2018).
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- Seven projects awarded 2018 digitization grants
