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.
