Eiichiro Azuma specializes in Asian American and transpacific history, with an emphasis on Japanese American experience, migration, diaspora and settler colonialism, as well as U.S. and Japanese imperialism and U.S.-Japan relations. He is the author of In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire, which received the John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History from the American Historical Association. His first book, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America, also received multiple awards, including the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. He has coedited two books, the award-winning Yuji Ichioka, Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History, with Gordon H. Chang of Stanford; and the Oxford Handbook of Asian American History with David K. Yoo of UCLA.

Azuma has published over a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in academic anthologies. He has been co-editor of the Asian American Experiences book series at the University of Illinois Press since 2009 and is on the editorial board of the Journal of American Ethnic History. At Penn, he is on the Faculty Steering Committees for the Asian American Studies Program and the Center for East Asian Studies, and he has twice served as director of the Asian American Studies Program.