East Lansing, MI 48825-1205
Ph.D., University of Michigan; American Studies
Associate Professor
Professor Pegler-Gordon specializes in U.S. cultural and political history. Her teaching and research interests include: immigration, race, citizenship, visual culture and popular culture. At Madison College, she has taught courses in Asian American history, immigration policy, comparative race and ethnic relations, and U.S. racial and immigration history. Professor Pegler-Gordon has received fellowships for her teaching and research, including national awards from the Organization of American Historians, the Japanese Association for American Studies, and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. At MSU, she has received a Teacher-Scholar award, as well as an Intramural Research Grant Program (IRGP) grant and a Lilly Teaching Fellowship. Her American Quarterly article, "Chinese Exclusion, Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy" was selected for inclusion as the lead essay in Best American History Essays 2008. During her recent research leave, Professor Pegler-Gordon was a visiting research fellow at the University of London School of Advanced Study (2008) and was one of two scholars selected nationally for a teaching residency in Japan (2009). Her first book, In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, was published by the University of California Press in September 2009. Professor Pegler-Gordon is currently researching her second book, a study of Asian immigrants at Ellis Island.
Anna Pegler-Gordon’s book, In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, was published by the University of California Press in September 2008.
Anna Pegler-Gordon was selected by the Organization of American Historians and the Japanese Association for American Studies to receive Short Term Residency at Nagoya City University (2009). As one of two U.S. scholars selected each year, she gave a series of lectures, seminars and presentations to Japanese faculty, graduate students and undergraduates studying U.S. ethnic and immigration history.
Anna Pegler-Gordon was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas, School for Advanced Study, University of London, in 2008.
Anna Pegler-Gordon’s essay “Chinese Exclusion, Photography, and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy” was selected for inclusion in the Organization of American Historian's book, The Best American History Essays 2008, published by Palgrave Macmillan. The editorial board of nine historians read hundreds of articles published in 2006-2007 and pared the list down to 36 finalists from which the 10 best were selected for inclusion.
Anna Pegler-Gordon was Acting Director of the University's Asian Pacific American Studies program during the 2006-2007 academic year.
