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About Donna Anderson
Donna Doan Anderson (she/her) is a research assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research examines how the U.S. heartland operates as an Asian American space, unified in experiences of invisibility and exclusion. As a result, her interests lay primarily in Asian American histories and Midwestern studies, though can be extended to the interventions founds in scholarship on settler colonialism, agrarian studies, and critical refugee studies. Her research on Asian American agricultural and rural communities brings her to several Midwestern and Intermountain states and she is grateful to be affiliated with the Huntington Library, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (BYU), Digital Ethnic Studies Research Institute (University of Nebraska), and the Immigration History Research Center Archives (University of Minnesota). Her published works can be found in the Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies Review, American Studies Journal, and Middle West Review (forthcoming), while a co-authored chapter examining remittances and urban development in Vietnam can be found in Governing Cities in the 21 st Century: Asian Perspectives (Routledge, 2020). Her article, “Acceptance for Admission: Administrations of Japanese American Relocation and the Midwestern University” (American Studies, Fall 2023), is the 2024 winner of the Midwest Historical Association's Dorothy Schwieder Prize for Best Article in a peer-reviewed journal on Midwestern History. In addition to research, she previously served as the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Asian American Studies and as the graduate student representative for the Association of Asian American Studies’ History section. At UCSB, she was actively involved in the Asian/American Studies Collective.
Donna Doan Anderson (she/her) is the Mellon research assistant professor in U.S. Law and Race at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
NBN Episodes hosted by Donna:
January 25, 2026
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland
Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland: Attempted Indigenizations of Space, Labor, and Consumption (Rutgers UP, 2025) examines the attempt to transplant Di…
January 25, 2026
Queering the Hmong Diaspora
This episode features Dr. Kong Pheng Pha discussing his recently published book, Queering the Hmong Diaspora: Racial Subjectivity and the Myth of Hype…
August 23, 2025
Imperial Stewards
This episode, which is co-hosted with Delaney Chieyen Holton, features Dr. K. Ian Shin discussing his recently published book, Imperial Stewards: Chin…
August 7, 2025
The Violence of Love
This episode features Dr. Kit W. Myers, associate professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Merced, d…
July 24, 2025
Midwest Unrest
This episode features Dr. Ashley Howard, assistant professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Iowa, discussing her book, M…
July 15, 2025
Picture Bride, War Bride
Picture Bride, War Bride examines how the institution of marriage created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women during the period o…
July 2, 2025
Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland
In this episode we challenge the ideas about invisibility of Asian Americans in the urban Midwest by discussing Rebecca Jo Kinney’s Mapping AsiaTown C…
December 3, 2024
The Great Plague Scare of 1720
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Cindy Ermus on her recently published book, The Great Plague Scare of 1720: Disaster and Diplomacy in th…
July 10, 2024
Performing Chinatown
This episode features a conversation with Dr. William Gow on his recently published book, Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of …
May 1, 2024
Asian American Histories of the United States
To begin the celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, this episode features a conversation with Dr. Catherine Ceniza Choy about her book …
February 8, 2024
Island X
This episode, which is co-hosted with Tandee Wang, features a conversation with Dr. Wendy Cheng, author of Island X: Taiwanese Student Migrants, Campu…
November 25, 2023
Nisei Radicals
This episode, which is co-hosted with Michael Nishimura, features a conversation with Dr. Diane C. Fujino, the author of Nisei Radicals: The Feminist …
November 16, 2023
Chinese Americans in the Heartland
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Huping Ling on her two latest books, Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and Community …
October 8, 2023
New Women of Empire
This episode, which is co-hosted with Mika Thornburg, features a conversation with Dr. Chrissy Yee Lau, the author of the newly published New Women of…
August 19, 2023
Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Michael R. Jin regarding his recently published book Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: The Japane…
June 27, 2023
Resisting Change in Suburbia
In this episode, we discuss how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas ab…
March 14, 2023
History on the Run
In this episode we discuss how secrecy structures both official knowledge and refugee epistemologies about militarism and forced migration as found in…