Donna Doan Anderson
Donna Doan Anderson (LinkedIn) is the Mellon Research Assistant Professor in U.S. Law and Race in the Department of History and an affiliate faculty member with the Institute of Ethnic Studies, Center for Great Plains Studies, and Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her research examines the intersections of land policy and immigration within rural Asian American communities in the United States during the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. Her article, “Acceptance for Admission: Administrations of Japanese American Relocation and the Midwestern University” (American Studies, 2023) won the Midwestern History Association’s Dorothy Schwieder Prize for Best Article on Midwestern History in 2024.
