Andrea Geiger

Andrea Geiger graduated from the University of Washington Law School in 1991 after serving as editor-in-chief of the Washington Law Review, and spending several years clerking for judges at the Washington Court of Appeals and the Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington.

She also served as Reservation Attorney for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in northeastern Washington. Her research and teaching interests include trans-Pacific and borderlands history, immigration history, aboriginal law and history, and Nikkei history. Her dissertation, Cross-Pacific Dimensions of Race, Caste and Class: Meiji-era Immigrants in the North American West, 1885-1928, was awarded the Institute for Pacific Northwest Studies Dissertation Prize for 2007.

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