Bailey Irene Midori Hoy is an Ph.D Student at the University of Pennsylvania. A fourth generation Japanese Canadian, her interests involved work related to transnationalism, gender and material culture. She hopes that her research will help healing and communication between the generations, and make information more accessible to her community, in addition to scholars. She is also interested in the interplay of power between Japanese diasporic communities and Japanese soft power.
Supervisor: Dr. Eiichiro Azuma
B.A. (hons, with Distinction), University of Toronto, 2021
M.A., University of British Columbia, 2024
“‘Joo Wa Dare?’ Who is the Queen?: Queen Contests During the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans”. Madison Historical Review, Spring 2023.
“‘Threads of a Past Life’: Kimono in the Lives of Japanese-Canadian Women”. Re:Locations – Journal of the Asia-Pacific World 5 (1), 2023.
“My Family’s Haunted Left Stairway: An Autoethnography on Trauma and Memory Through the Lense of Haunting Studies, Japanese Folklore, and Material Culture”. C4EJ, vol. 34, Ethics in Context, 2021.