Gary Okihiro

Gary Y. Okihiro
Born(1945-10-14)14 October 1945
Aiea, Hawaii[1]
Died20 May 2024(2024-05-20) (aged 78)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Academic background
Alma materPacific Union College, UCLA
Academic work
InstitutionsColumbia University, Cornell University, Yale University
Doctoral studentsMary Ting Yi Lui
Main interestsHistorical methodology and theories of social and historical formations, the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S., pre-colonial and colonialist economic history, and race and world history
Websitehttps://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/gary-okihiro

Gary Y. Okihiro (October 14, 1945 – May 20, 2024) was an American author and scholar. Before he moved to Yale,[2] he was a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Okihiro received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1976.[3]

  1. ^ "UHWO welcomes Distinguished Visiting Scholar Dr. Gary Okihiro". 2012-02-16. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
  2. ^ Treisman, Rachel (September 5, 2017). "Gary Okihiro to join faculty". Yale Daily News.
  3. ^ "Gary Okihiro | American Studies". americanstudies.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-06-14.