Hidetaka Hirota is a social and legal historian of the United States specializing in immigration. His major areas of research are the nineteenth-century United States; American immigration law and policy; the U.S. and the world; and transnational history. He is particularly interested in the history of American nativism and immigration control, from the antebellum period to the Progressive Era. Adopting a social and legal history approach, his scholarship pays equal attention to the legal dimension of immigration control and the practical implementation of immigration laws on the ground....
Tomás is the Canadian Studies program manager. He earned his B.A. in history from UC Berkeley in 2015.
Tomás previously worked in the Deans’ Office of the College of Letters & Science, where he coordinated events and fundraising for undergraduate programs.
Lillian is a third-year undergraduate at UC Berkeley, studying Environmental Economics and Policy with a dual degree in Comparative Literature. She is originally from Toronto, and went to school in the Greater Toronto Area. At Berkeley, Lillian has been a member of the Undergraduate Marketing Association and served as a Mental Health Executive for a senator in the ASUC, Berkeley's student government. She was also a research apprentice for the Canadian Studies Program last semester.
Lillian previously interned at the US Consulate in Toronto in the Foreign Commercial Service under the...
