Sonia Gomez
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Email: sgomez@scu.edu
Education
2018 University of Chicago
Ph.D., Department of History
2014 University of Chicago
M.A., Department of History
2011 University of California, Berkeley
B.A., high distinction, Department of History
2008 Antelope Valley College
A.A. honors, Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Sonia C. Gomez is Assistant Professor of History specializing in race and ethnic relations; migration and diaspora; and gender and sexuality. Her first book project Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (NYU Press, 2024) examines the ways in which marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period of racial exclusion.
Her next project explores interracial female friendship, girlhood, and letter writing during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Lower-division
HIST 60: Race & Immigration in the United States
HIST 96B: The United States from 1877 to 9/11
Hist 11A/12A: Comparative History of Transnational Migration
Upper-division
HIST 119: Gender, Sexuality & Social Movements in the 20th century United States
Cross-listed with the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies
HIST 105: Interracial Intimacy: Race & Sex in Modern America
Cross-listed with the Department of Ethnic Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies
Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America (New York University Press, 2024).
“Interracial Friendship Across Barbed Wire: Mollie Murphy and Lillian Igasaki” in Black Transnationalism and Japan, eds Sho Konishi and Natalia Doan (Leiden University Press, 2024).
“‘Yankee, Why Does a Big Man Like You Fear My Baby?’: The Gendered Politics of the Anti-Japanese Movement, 1908-1924,” Amerasia, Vol. 46, No. 2 (August 2020), pp 162-179.
“The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in ‘Jim Crow Tokyo’.” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Fall 2019), pp. 35-65.