Jessica Fernandez de Lara Harada

Jessica Fernandez de Lara Harada is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer in Race, Decolonial and Intersectional Studies, based at the Center for Japanese Studies, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, Jessica studied Law as an undergraduate at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and an MA and a PhD in Japanese and Latin American Studies at University College London and at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. Jessica’s research interests include trans-pacific histories, nation-state building, race-making, inequalities and marginalisation. Her work has been published in the ASAP/Journal, Global Studies Quarterly, the University of Cambridge’s CRASSH 20th anniversary publication, Oxford Bibliographies, among others.