Mika Endo

Mika Endo

Mika Endo

Adjunct Faculty

U.S. History: Virginia History, American Indian History, 20th Century U.S., and Museum Studies

Mika Endo earned her B.A. and M.A. at Doshisha University and her PhD in history at George Mason University. Her PhD dissertation titled "Redefining Race: Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 and American Indian Identification” explores the implementation of the 1924 Act and the damage to indigenous communitiesas well as how Native Americans reacted against the law and fought to claim their racial identity as Indians. She is pursuing her teaching career as an instructor at the Department of History and INTO Mason at George Mason University. She is passionate in teaching history to both domestic and international students. 

Selected Publications

“‘The Word ‘Mixed’ Without the ‘Indian’ Would be Better’: Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act and the Destruction of Indian Race in the Early Twentieth Century,” Native South, Vol. 7, University of Nebraska Press, August 2014.

Grants and Fellowships

Provost's Summer Research Fellowship, George Mason University, 2018, 2020

Travel Research Grant, George Mason University, 2019

Fulbright Foreign Student Program, 2013

Courses Taught

HIST 125, Recitation for Introduction to World History, Fall 2018, Spring 2019 

HIST 125, Introduction to World History, Fall 2021, Summer 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Summer 2023

INYO 504, Graduate Transitions for International Students, Fall 2022

INYO 100, INTO Mason Pathway Transition into College, Spring 2023

Education

Ph.D. in History, George Mason University, 2022

Master of Arts in American Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2011

Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, 2009

Recent Presentations

"Teaching Virginia History to Diverse Students,” Virginia Forum 2023, Shepherd University, March 18, 2023.

In the Media

Radio interview, Kazuo Senou's Paradaise Kyoto, Kyoto Broadcasting System Radio Program, June 29, 2018, https://www.kbs-kyoto.co.jp/radio/para/archives/2018/06/

Radio interview, Koichi Takeuchi's Zukyun, Kyoto Broadcasting System Radio Program, August 21, 2017.

Radio interview, Koichi Takeuchi's Zukyun, Kyoto Broadcasting System Radio Program, January 23, 2017.

Radio interview, Koichi Takeuchi's Zukyun, Kyoto Broadcasting System Radio Program, November 7, 2016 and November 14, 2016.