Michi Nishiura Weglyn
Activist and author of Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps, the first comprehensive book about the World War II incarceration of Japanese-Americans written by a Nisei.
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Dr Claudia Albarrán
Mexican researcher, professor, essayist and literary critic
Tununa Mercado
Argentine researcher and writer
Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
Setsuko Nishi (1921-2012) worked as a researcher for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study and as a community activist before going on to a notable career as a scholar of race relations.
Dr Tamie Tsuchiyama
The only Japanese American woman to work full-time for the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS).
Frances Densmore
From the 1890s through the 1950s, Frances Densmore researched and recorded the music of Native Americans. Through more than twenty books, 200 articles, and some 2,500 Graphophone recordings, she preserved important cultural traditions that might otherwise have been lost.
Alessandra Comini
Scholar of fin-de-siècle Germanic art and music; Southern Methodist University professor of art history.
Alice Van Vechten Brown
Establisher of the first Art History program and Art Museology courses in the United States.
Dr Paulina Alcocer
Mexican researcher and professor
Aimée Wagner y Mesa
German-Mexican actress, researcher and academic