Asian Pacific American History Month Lecture with Dr. Franklin Odo, National Museum of American History

Thursday, May 10 at noon
Ketchum Hall (200 Maryland Avenue NE)
For information: (202) 543-8919 x. 38

Pre-registration is strongly recommended.

Call (202) 543-8919 x. 38 and leave a message or email uschs@uschs.org to pre-register or with any questions. You are encouraged to bring a lunch.

Dr. Odo’s lecture will focus on the transition of Hawaii’s representation in the United States Congress from the non-voting delegates of the Territorial period to the full representation in the U.S. House and Senate with Hawaiian statehood in 1959.

Speaker Biography:

Dr. Franklin Odo is Director of the Smithsonian Institution Asian Pacific American Program. Dr. Odo's academic background was in traditional Asian Studies, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became part of the movement that created Asian American and other ethnic studies in California. Since then he has taught at the University of Hawaii and at many other campuses, including a college in Japan and at the University of Pennsylvania, Hunter College, Princeton, and Columbia University. Aside from his work as a curator and APAP director at the Smithsonian, Odo currently teaches a course in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland. He is the editor of The Columbia Documentary History of the Asian American Experience, published this year by Columbia University Press. His previous books include A Pictorial History of the Japanese in Hawai‘i and Roots: An Asian American Reader, co-edited with Amy Tachiki, Eddie Wong, and Buck Wong.