Eiji Okawa

Museum Exhibit cluster postdoctoral fellow

Dr. Eiji Okawa is a historian whose fields of research include the religious and political history of medieval and early modern Japan and the social and cultural history of Japanese immigrants in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century. He completed his PhD in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia in 2016. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow with Landscapes of Injustice in the Museum Exhibit cluster. He previously worked as a researcher in the Community Records cluster and as a postdoc in the Government Records and Legal History clusters.