Mamiri Imai

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Advisor: Manisha Sinha

Research Interests: Nineteenth-Century United States, Black Abolitionist Feminists, Feminist Geography and Spatial Epistemology, Counter-Mapping, Gender and Queer History, Alternative Print Culture.

Bio: Mamiri Imai is a PhD student in History at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on Black abolitionist feminist geography, examining how Black women’s transnational mobility and spatial epistemologies challenged enslavement in the nineteenth century. She is also currently engaged in research on Indigenous counter-mapping, comic book geography, and alternative print culture. She explores how geography, space, landscape, and mapping operate as sites of power, resistance, and knowledge production in history.

 

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships:

– WGSS Graduate Certificate Research Grant (Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, University of Connecticut. 2026.)

-American Studies Graduate Student Research Award (American Studies Research Fund, University of Connecticut, 2025)

– Rikkyo University Special Fund for Research. (Tokyo, Japan. Apr 2021 – Mar 2022.

-The Best Master’s Dissertation Award of the Graduate School of Arts at Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan) / March 2020.

Selected Scholars

– American Antiquarian Society’s Summer Seminar “The History of the Book, Sex, Gender, and Print”. (American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA)

– International Doctoral Colloquium (Mar-Dec 2025) “The Gender of Activism: Networks, Circulation, and Solidarity in the Transatlantic Space.” (Institut des Amériques), Washington D.C./ Mar-Dec, 2025.

Selected Publications:

– “Empathy for the Pain in Antebellum America: Anti-Corporal Punishment in L. M. Child’s The Mother’s Book and Her Humanitarian Movements,” SHI’EN, Vol 84, No.2 (The Historical Society of Rikkyo University, Mar 2024) in Japanese.

– “Respectability and Citizenship in the Early Republic: The Taste of the Republicanism in L. M. Child’s Cookbook,” The American Review (The Japanese Association for American Studies, Vol. 57, pp 165-184). in Japanese.

– Mamiri Imai and Yuko Nakanishi, “Public History and Collaborative Research – The Memories of Tateishi in Tokyo” Journal of Historical Studies, extra number. (The Historical Science Society of Japan, Oct 2024)

– (Book Chapter) “SAN FRANCISCO and Zine” (LGBTQ+ and Feminism zine) Geography Practice Research Report 35 (Rikkyo University geographical and anthropological studies, 2, Mar 2018)