Associate Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies
History Department
Telephone: 617-552-3799
Email: arissa.oh@yilunjianshe.com
Immigration and Race in U.S. History
Twentieth-Century United States
Asian American History
Korean and International Adoption
Cold War and Social and Political History
Family and Kinship
Professor Arissa Oh specializes in the study of race and immigration in U.S. history, and her research interests include immigration, race, gender, and family in U.S. history, and transnational Asian-American history. She has written a book To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption (2015), the first book about the origins and history of international adoption. Professor Oh’s current project examines the history of marriage migration and immigration fraud since the late 19th century.