Andre Deckrow

Field: Japanese History
Advisor: Carol Gluck
Email: akd2120@columbia.edu

Andre Deckrow is a doctoral student in modern Japanese history. His research focuses on twentieth-century Japanese migration to Latin America, specifically Brazil. He received his B.A. in History and Asian Languages and Cultures from Amherst College in 2006. Andre spent the 2007-2008 academic year traveling around the Pacific Rim researching Japanese gardens as symbols of historical memory as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. For the 2010-2011 academic year, Andre serves as a Co-President of the Graduate History Association, the organization that represents all history graduate students at Columbia.