Rate My Professor Kariann Yakota

Her scholarly work centers on immigration and ethnicity, with expertise in Colonial and Early America, Ethnic Studies, Transatlantic History, Transpacific History, Material and Visual Culture, Cultural Studies, American Studies, and Asian American Studies. She authored the acclaimed book Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation (Oxford University Press, 2011), which examines postcolonial identity through material culture. Other publications include "Oral Histories as Living Histories" (Amerasia Journal, 2002) and "Transatlantic and Transpacific Connections in Early American History" (Pacific Historical Review, 2014). Yokota has received fellowships such as the Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society (1999-2000) for her project on early republic postcolonial identity, and fellowships at Christ Church College and the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. She was elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 2015 and serves on editorial boards including the Journal of the Early Republic and Commonplace: The Journal of Early American Life. Currently, she is working on Pacific Overtures, a history of U.S. relations in the Asia-Pacific region.