Interim Program Co-Director and associate professor
Department of History
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.
Interim Program Co-Director and professor emeritus
Department of Linguistics
Dr. Richard A. Rhodes is the interim director of the Canadian Studies Program, and holds the Thomas Garden Barnes Chair in Canadian Studies. He is a professor emeritus of linguistics, specializing in North American Indigenous languages. He received his Ph.D. in from the University of Michigan, where he also taught for ten years. Professor Rhodes joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1986, and taught in the Department of Linguistics until his retirement in 2021. In addition to his teaching, he also served as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters &...
