Meet our new faculty: Hidetaka Hirota, history

Hidetaka Hirota is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty. (Photo courtesy Hidetaka Hirota)

Name: Hidetaka Hirota (he/him)
Discipline: History
Degrees: B.A., foreign studies, Sophia University, 2005; M.A., history, Boston College, 2008; Ph.D., history, Boston College, 2012
Research interests: Social and legal history of the United States, U.S. immigration history, global migration and transnational history.