Sonia C. Gomez is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, specializing in the study of interracial entanglements during WWII, Japanese migration to the US, and the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. Her first book project, A Gendered Diaspora: Intimacy and Empire in the Making of Japanese America, 1908-1952, (forthcoming) examines the ways in which marriage and compulsory heterosexuality created pockets of legal and social inclusion for Japanese women, on one hand, and exclusion for single men, on the other. The book traces the ways that gender and sexuality intersected with race and ethnicity to produce categories of inclusion/exclusion for the Japanese in America.