Yuri doolan

Yuri Doolan is Assistant Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the inaugural chair of Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies at Brandeis University. He is an award-winning historian whose work explores the anti-Asian racism and gendered and sexualized violence of US militarism and empire. His book titled, The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024) tells the powerful, oftentimes heartbreaking, story of how Americans created and used the concept of the "Amerasian" to remove thousands of mixed race children from their Korean mothers in US-occupied South Korea to adoptive American homes during the 1950s and 1960s. The First Amerasians explores the Cold War ideologies undergirding this so-called rescue and shows how this process of child removal and placement via US refugee and adoption laws profoundly shaped the lives of mixed race Koreans and their mothers. Yuri is also the author of a number of peer-reviewed essays and public facing works exploring the lasting legacies and human consequences of the Korean War. His works on military brides, transnational and transracial adoption, mixed race Koreans, the US camptown military sex industry, and “comfort women” appear or are forthcoming in Critical Ethnic Studies, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Diplomatic History, Together at Last: Stories of Adoption and Reunion in the Age of DNA, Mixed Korean: Our Stories (인종주의의덫을 넘어서: 혼혈 한국인, 혼혈 입양인 이야), The Journal of American Ethnic History, Koreatowns: Exploring the Economics, Politics, and Identities of Korean Spatial Formation, 경계를 넘는 한인들: 이주, 젠더, 세대와 귀속의 정치, and a permanent installation in Berlin called Die „Trostfrauen“ und der gemeinsame Kampf gegen sexualisierte Gewalt.