Graduate Student Bios

Eleanor Eriko Tsuchiya Lenoe is a third-year doctoral student with interests in transnational histories of Japan and the US, children during the American Occupation of Japan, and family history in the post-WWII era. Her dissertation examines relationships between American GIs and Japanese children during the Allied Occupation and Korean War. Eleanor received her BA in history from the University of Rochester in 2021. Her work has been supported by the Society for Historians of Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and the Japanese American Association (JAA).