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Stephen Mak

Field: America [20th century]

Topic: "Enemy Aliens in a World at War: America's Other Internment during World War II."

Advisor: Michael Sherry

Contact: s-maknorthwestern.edu

Stephen Mak researches and teaches social and political history, especially the intersection of foreign relations and immigration policy (Asian American and comparative). He earned his bachelors degree at Cornell University, where he majored in industrial and labor relations and was a winner of the Joel Seidman Prize. Before coming to Northwestern, he worked at the labor policy office of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and taught social studies in New York’s Chinatown. He served two terms as a history department graduate student representative.

 

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