#  Sonia Gomez 

 

 



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Sonia Gomez is a historian of the modern United States whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of race, gender, and immigration. Her book project, Good Wives, Wise Mothers: Race, Gender, and Belonging in the Making of Japanese America, investigates the ways in which marriage, the nuclear family, and female domesticity facilitated Japanese immigration and settlement, and how such institutions constructed specific roles for Japanese women that circumscribed their lives once in the US. Sonia earned a PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2018. She also holds an MA in history from the University of Chicago and earned her BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a predoctoral fellow in Global Studies and Languages and History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017-18.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [History](/disciplines/history)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2018 - 2019](/fellowship-year/2018-2019)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)