Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Friday, December 4, 2026 | 6pm to 7:30pm
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Issay Matsumoto (University of Southern California) will present research on the history of postwar Hawaiʻi’s tourism industry and labor movement. This research was completed with the support of the 2023 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Fund.
Issay Matsumoto is a Ph.D. student in the Van Hunnick History Department at the University of Southern California. He received his B.A. from Tufts University, majoring in History and American Studies with a minor in Asian American Studies. He is writing a dissertation on labor, migration, and empire in twentieth-century Hawaiʻi.