Bailey Hoy
Thematic Research Area
Regional Research Area
Education
B.A. (hons, with Distinction), University of Toronto, 2021
M.A., University of British Columbia, 2024.
About
Bailey Irene Midori Hoy is an former M.A. Student at the University of British Columbia, and current Ph.D student at the University of Pennsylvania. A fourth generation Japanese Canadian, her interests involved work related to diaspora, gender and material culture. Her updated profile may be found at https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/bailey-hoy.
Research
Publications
“‘Joo Wa Dare?’ Who is the Queen?: Queen Contests During the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans”. Madison Historical Review, Spring 2023.
“‘Threads of a Past Life’: Kimono in the Lives of Japanese-Canadian Women”. Re:Locations – Journal of the Asia-Pacific World 5 (1), 2023.
“My Family’s Haunted Left Stairway: An Autoethnography on Trauma and Memory Through the Lense of Haunting Studies, Japanese Folklore, and Material Culture”. C4EJ, vol. 34, Ethics in Context, 2021.
Awards
Japanese Canadian Legacy Scholarship (2023), Japanese Canadian Legacy Community Fund
James Madison Award for Excellence in Historical Scholarship (2023), Madison Historical Review
Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship-Masters (2022-2023), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
IAR Fellows Program (2023), Centre for Japanese Research, Institute for Asian Research, The University of British Columbia
Richard Charles Lee Insights Through Asia Challenge (2020), Asian Institute, The University of Toronto
Graduate Supervision
Primary Supervisor: Laura Ishiguro