Biography
Ph.D., University of Michigan; American Studies Professor Pegler-Gordon teaches courses in Asian American history, immigration policy, oral history, public history, museums and K-12 history education, including the politicization of U.S. racial and immigration history. She recently completed her second book, "Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History of Exclusion at Ellis Island," which received an Honorable Mention for the Association for Asian American Studies History Bo
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Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon published Wong Kim Arks Children: Immigrant Citizenship Under Chinese Exclusion, Citizenship Studies 28, no. 3 (2024). DOI: 10.1080/13621025.2024.2336933. This article is made publicly available through funding from MSUs open access initiative.
Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon published, Oral History as Asian American Pedagogy at Association for Asian American Studies; Embodied Experiences of Archival Space at Organization of American Historians (both in April 2023.)
Professor Anna Pegler-Gordon published New York has a Concentration Camp of its Own: Japanese Confinement on Ellis Island during World War II in the Journal of Asian American Studies 20, no. 3 (October 2017). She also published Debating the Racial Turn in U.S. Ethnic and Immigration History in the Journal of American Ethnic History 36, no. 2 (winter 2017): 40-52.
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