Participant Info

First Name
Selena
Last Name
Moon
Country
State
MN
Affiliation
University of Minnesota
Website URL
https://selenammoon.com
Keywords
Japanese American disability history, Japanese American mixed race history, accessibility
Availability
1
Additional Contact Information
PhD
MA

Personal Info

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About Me

I am a second year PhD student in American Studies at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I research Japanese American disability and it’s intersections with carcerality, eugenics (sterilization, immigration and marriage restrictions, institutionalization, Japanese American World War II incarceration), gender, settler colonialism, etc.

I also work on accessibility at museums, historic sites, websites, conferences, and other venues.

Recent Publications

Book Chapters

  • Moon, Selena, Gracen Brilmyer and Lydia Tang, eds. “Including Japanese American Disability History in the Archives,” Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession, (Sacramento: Litwin Books, 2024), 66-99.
  • Moon, Selena, Heather Pressman, ed. “Breaking Barriers To History,” An Accessible Past: Making Historic Sites Accessible (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023), 177-98.

Articles

Moon, Selena, “Beyond Hannah Takagi Holmes: The Lives and Work of Deaf and Blind Japanese Americans,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Volume 43, No 3, Special Issue: Asian American Disability: A History and Its Archives  (Spring 2024), 57-88.

Media Coverage
Country Focus
US, Japan
Expertise by Geography
Japan, United States
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century, 21st century
Expertise by Topic
Disability, Race