Public Talk/Book Signing with Historian and Author Greg Robinson

Greg Robinson is professor of history at l’Université du Québec À Montréal. A specialist in U.S. political history, he has written several notable books, including By Order of the President (Harvard UP, 2001), which uncovers Franklin Roosevelt’s central involvement in Japanese American confinement, and A Tragedy of Democracy (Columbia UP, 2009), winner of the 2009 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) History book prize, which studies Japanese American and Japanese Canadian confinement in transnational context. His book, After Camp (UC Press, 2012), winner of the Caroline Bancroft History Prize, centers on post-war resettlement. His most recent book is The Unknown Great (U Washington Press 2023), an alternative history of Japanese Americans.