Naoko Wake

Naoko Wake is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. Prof. Wake is a historian of gender, sexuality, and illness in the twentieth century United States and the Pacific Rim. She has written on the history of psychiatric and psychoanalytic approaches to homosexuality in her first book Private Practices: Harry Stack Sullivan, the Science of Homosexuality, and American Liberalism (Rutgers, 2011). Her second book American Survivors: Trans-Pacific Memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Cambridge, 2021) is on Japanese American and Korean American survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Her current project is about the history of disability among Asian Pacific Islander Desi Americans.