She is from various corners of the Northeastern, US 

Concentration: American Studies
Graduation Year: 2024

Erin Aoyama '24 is a doctoral candidate in American Studies who holds an MA in Public Humanities from Brown. Erin's research is rooted in Asian American studies, 20th century American history, relational ethnic studies, and public humanities. Her dissertation takes up questions of race, place, and community repair within the afterlives of Japanese American incarceration and redress. In addition to her doctoral work, Aoyama is co-director of "Seeing Memory: Landscapes of Japanese American Incarceration," a digital storytelling and mapping project, and is a curatorial assistant at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA. Erin's work, in her dissertation, through the Seeing Memory Project, and at JANM, is interested in the possibilities of justice-informed historical storytelling work.