research overview
- I am currently working on my book manuscript, 'We are Each Other's Magnitude and Bond': A History of Environmental Justice. This is the first comprehensive history of the environmental justice movement in the United States.
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Sohi, Seema
Positions
- Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
- Associate Professor, History
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- US history,Asian American history, environmental history, climate justice, race, empire, anticolonialism, transnationalism, radicalism, antiradicalism, borderlands, Cold War, decolonization, foreign relations, South Asian American Studies
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
- Our Stories An Introduction to South Asian America 2021
- South Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire and Migration in the United States. 54-69. 2021
- Asian Indian Exclusion 2013
- Ghadar Newspaper 2013
- Ghadar Party 2013
- Immigration Act of 1917 and the Barred Zone 2013
- Repressing the "Hindu Menace": Antiradicalism and the Criminalization of the Indian Radical 2013
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journal article
- Kamala Harris and the Urgency of Now. 12-15. 2021
- Across Oceans of Law: The Komagata Maru and Jurisdiction in the Time of Empire. Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 454-456. 2020
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Indian Anticolonialism and Security Regimes Across the British and American Empires.
Journal of Modern European History.
335-352.
2018
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Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States.
Journal of American Ethnic History.
105-106.
2018
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Conflicting Visions: Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76.
Canadian Journal of History.
411-413.
2017
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The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority.
Journal of American History.
257-258.
2016
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Roots and Reflections: South Asians in the Pacific Northwest.
American Historical Review.
1908-1909.
2015
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SITES OF 'SEDITION', SITES OF LIBERATION: GURDWARAS, THE GHADAR PARTY, AND ANTICOLONIAL MOBILIZATION.
Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory.
5-22.
2014
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Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in the Transnational Western U.S.-Canadian Borderlands.
Journal of American History.
420-436.
2011
- Driven Out The Forgotten War against Chinese Americans. Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 142-143. 2008
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of Washington 2008
- M.A., University of Vermont 2000
- B.A., University of California-Santa Cruz 1997
awards and honors
International Activities
geographic focus
- Canada Country
- Germany Country
- India Country
- United Kingdom Country