About A. Naomi Paik

A. Naomi Paik is assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her book Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) received the 2018 Best Book in History Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and was a finalist for the 2017 John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American studies from the American Studies Association. She has published essays in Social Text, Radical History Review, Cultural Dynamics, and Race & Class and in the edited collection Guantánamo and the Empire of Freedom.