Yukari Takai
Yukari Takai is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Windsor. She is a historian of North America and Asia, specializing in issues of migration, women and gender, border, and borderlands. A former Fulbright Research Fellow at Columbia University, Takai is the author of Gendered Passages: French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920. She is completing a SSHRC-funded book on Japanese transmigration across the Pacific and across the Canada-U.S. border (1882-1941). Takai has received SSHRC Standard Research and Insight Development Grants, and is collaborating on two SSHRC Partnership projects: “Borders in Globalization” led by Drs. Emanuel Brunet-Jailly (UVictoria) and Victor Konrad (Carleton), and “Landscapes of Injustice” led by Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross (UVictoria).