History Department

Hidetaka Hirota

ph.d. candidate

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Email: hirotah@bc.edu


Education:
B.A. in Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.


Dissertation Title:
“‘To any place beyond sea where he belongs’: Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877.”


Dissertation Committee:
Kevin Kenny (Advisor), David Quigley, Cynthia Lyerly


Research Interests:
I study nineteenth-century United States social history. My major area of research is the history of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Irish in America. Other fields of interest include labor, urban, and Atlantic history. My dissertation explores the deportation of Irish-American paupers by Massachusetts nativists and examines the meaning of citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. In doing so, it also illuminates the ambivalence between racial liberalism and ethnic intolerance in Massachusetts during the Civil War Era and the “round-trip” aspect of the transatlantic Irish migration.


Fellowships and Grants:
Adele Dalsimer Dissertation Fellowship, Irish Studies Program, Boston College, 2009-2010.
Summer Research Stipend, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College, 2009.
George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2009.
Gilder Lehrman Fellowship, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2009.
John Higham Travel Grant, Organization of American Historians and Immigration and Ethnic History Society (co-sponsored), 2009.
The Littleton-Griswold Grant, American Historical Association, 2008.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2008-2009.
Research Expense Grant, Graduate Student Association, Boston College, 2008.
Research Expense Grant, Boston College, 2007.
University Fellowship, Boston College, 2005-2010.


Publications:
“Abraham Lincoln.” In Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, ed. Edward E. Baptist. New York: Facts On File, forthcoming.

“Wendell Phillips.” In Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America, ed. Christopher Bates. New York: M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming.

“Daughters of St. Crispin,” “Lynn (Massachusetts) Shoemakers’ Strike,” and “Pauline Agassiz Shaw.” In Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Hasia R. Diner. New York: Facts On File, forthcoming.


Conference Presentations:

  • “Across the Atlantic Once Again: Forced Migration of the Poor from the United States to Ireland and Britain,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, California, January 10, 2010.
  • “Pauper Extradition and Slave Rendition: The Double Standard of Civil Liberties in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2009.
  • “An Intersection of Irish and Chinese Immigrant Experiences: American Immigration Policy, 1848-1892,” Fourth World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Beijing, China, September 19, 2009.
  • “Forced Labor and Irish Involuntary Migration in the Shadow of American Slave Emancipation,” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, June 2009.
  • “Resisting Cosmopolitanism: Another Look at Nineteenth-Century Boston as a Port City,” Nordic Association for American Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2009.
  • “Aliens, Deportation, and Citizenship before the Age of Federal Immigration Restriction,” Harvard Migration and Immigration Incorporation Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 7, 2009.
  • “Countering Nativism: Irish Immigrants’ Fight with the Threat of Deportation in Massachusetts, 1840-1860,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Seattle, Washington, March, 2009.
  • "Send Them Back to Liverpool: The Irish ‘Round-Trip’ Migration in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World,” The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.
  • "'Middling’ People: The Social Profile of the Boston Irish and the Meaning of College Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.
  • "Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877," Brown Bag Lunch Presentation, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, October 15, 2008.
  • “‘Purge the State’: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Irish Americans in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Graduate Students in American Studies Programs, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2008.
  • “Anti-Foreign Pauperism and Irish ‘Exclusion’ in Massachusetts in the Age of the Civil War,” Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, April 17, 2008.
  • “‘The echoes of Faneuil Hall were silent’: Boundaries of Irish Paupers’ Civil Liberty in Know-Nothing Boston,” Graduate Student Conference “Liberty and Freedom during the Civil War Era,” The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, February 9, 2008.
  • “The Search for ‘White’ Order: Irish Workers’ Assertion of Whiteness in Mid-19th Century New York City,” American Conference for Irish Studies (New England Region), October 2006.
  • “‘An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure’: The Removal of Foreign Paupers and anti-Irish Nativism in Massachusetts, 1848-1863,” The New England Historical Association, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 5, 2007.