LANE RYO HIRABAYASHI, Ph.D.

Chair, George and Sakaye Aratani Professorship in Japanese American Redress, Internment and Community (An Endowed Chair of the Asian American Studies Center)

Professor, Asian American Studies Department
Chair, Asian American Studies Department

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Ph.D., is Professor of Asian American Studies, and the first holder of the "George and Sakaye Aratani Professorship in Japanese American Redress, Internment and Community."

Lane was trained in the field of socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his M.A. (1976) and Ph.D. (1981).  Originally specializing in urbanization in Mexico, Lane’s initial fieldwork included over two years of research spent amongst mountain Zapotec in either the Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, or in the capital, Mexico City.

Since he was a teenager, Lane has had a profound interest in the Japanese American experience.  This interest has sustained him throughout his professional career, both in terms of research projects, publications, and service with a wide range of community based organizations.

“Receiving and holding the Aratani Endowed Chair gives me a wonderful opportunity to consolidate my work in the field of Japanese American Studies,” Lane noted recently.  Among his on-going projects are (1) a study of Japanese American resettlement in Colorado, 1942-1946; (2) a book about the tens of thousands of War Relocation Authority photographs of Japanese American resettlement; and (3) a series of articles about current developments in the Japanese American community and within Japanese American Studies.

Department of Asian American Studies, UCLA
3331 Rolfe Hall; Box 957225
Los Angeles, CA 90095-7225     

Phone: (310) 206-8020   
FAX:  (310) 206-5590

eMail: hirabaya@ucla.edu