Katherine Tegtmeyer Pak
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Political Science
St Olaf College
Northfield, MN 55057 USA
(507) 646- 3655
ktp@stolaf.edu

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She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and her B.A. in East Asian Studies and Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Between college and graduate school she worked at Toshiba Corporation's Tokyo headquarters for two years; she returned to Japan for sixteen months of field research during graduate school.  Before joining the St. Olaf faculty in 2003, she taught for five years at New College of Florida.  She is currently writing a book manuscript on Japanese immigration and citizenship politics from 1945-present.