Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Shannon Ingram, Simon Lyon, Elaine Toth, Carly Adams, Darren J Aoki (2023). “Teaching and Learning Through the Nikkei Memory Capture Project.” Alberta History, 70, no. 4: 13-25.
Darren J Aoki, (2023) “Traces of an Imperial Japanese Imaginary: Positioning the Japanese & Okinawan Settlements of Southern Alberta, Canada, 1910s-1930s,” Asia-Pacific Journal – Japan Focus, 21, no. 10, issue 7. Link
Darren J Aoki and Carly Adams (2023). “Of Ice Cream, Potatoes, and Kimono-Clad Japanese Women: Forgetting and Remembering the Japanese Racialization of Lethbridge’s Sensuous Geographies.” In Hodes C, Bonifacio G (Ed.), Racism in Southern Alberta and Anti-Racist Activism for Change. Canada: University of Athabasca Press. Link
Carly Adams and Darren J. Aoki (2020) “‘Hey, Why Don’t We Have a Bonspiel?’Narrating Postwar Japanese Canadian Experiences in Southern Alberta through Oral Histories of Curling.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 37, no. 16: 1715-1733. Runner-Up 2020 IJHS Best Article Prize Link
Darren J Aoki (2020) “Remembering ‘The English’in four ‘memory moment’portraits: navigating anti-Japanese discrimination and postcolonial ambiguity in mid-twentieth century Alberta, Canada.” Rethinking History 24, no. 1: 29-55. Link
Darren J Aoki (2019) “Assimilation—On (not) turning White: Memory and the narration of the postwar history of Japanese Canadians in Southern Alberta.” Journal of Canadian Studies 53, no. 2: 238-269. Link
Research Grants
SSHRC Insight, Transforming Canadian Nikkei: Co-Creating Histories of Southern Alberta, 1950 to the Twenty-First Century (2019-2025)