Military History and Japanese-American Incarceration

Stephanie Hinnershitz is Senior Historian with the Institute for the Study of War and Democracy at the National World War II Museum and earned her PhD from the University of Maryland in 2013, and then served as an assistant professor at Valdosta State University and again at Cleveland State University before joining the team at the Museum. Her specialty is the American home front and civil-military relations during World War II, and her award-winning work has been supported with grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Office of Diversity at the United States Military Academy at West Point, the Library of Congress, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Her most recent book, Japanese American Incarceration: The Camps and Coerced Labor during World War II, was published in 2021 with the University of Pennsylvania Press and was awarded the 2021 Philip Taft Labor History Award, and we’ll be talking about this book and some of Stephanie’s additional research today!