Seema听Sohi
- Associate Professor
- ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES 鈥 ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

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Pronouns: she / her / hers
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Education
Ph.D., University of Washington - History, 2008
M.A., University of Vermont - History
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz - English & History, 1997
Research Interests
Asian American Studies, U.S. History, Critical Ethnic Studies, Climate Justice, Empire, Citizenship, Social Movements, Environmental Justice, Environmental History
Seema Sohi is a 2024-2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellow whose current research focuses on the history of the environmental justice movement in the United States. Her book focuses specifically on the Black, Indigenous, Asian American, and Latina women who have been the leaders of environmental justice for decades. Her first book, Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America听(Oxford University Press, 2014) examines the radical anticolonial politics of South Asian intellectuals and migrant workers based in North America during the early twentieth century as well as the inter-imperial efforts of the U.S. and British states to repress them. She has also published several articles in the Journal of American History and Sikh Formations.
Selected Publications
Book
Sohi, Seema. (Oxford Univeristy Press, 2014).听
Refereed Articles
Sohi, Seema. 鈥淏arred Zones, Rising Tides, and Radical Struggles: The 1917 Immigration Act,鈥澨Journal of American听History, Volume 109, Issue 2, September 2022, pgs. 298鈥309.听
听 听 听*听Winner of the 2023 Binkley-Stephenson Award for the best article the appeared in the Journal of American History in 2022.听
Sohi, Seema. 鈥淔rom Bandung to Little Rock: Dalip Singh Saund and the Limits of Racial Liberalism鈥 Invited contribution to Special Issue of听Amerasia听titled, 鈥淐onservatisms and Fascisms in Asian America,鈥澨齎olume 48, Issue 1, 2022, pgs. 83-90.听
Sohi, Seema. 鈥淚ndian Anticolonialism and Security Regimes Across the British and American Empires,鈥 Journal of Modern European History听16, no. 3 (August 2018): 335-352
Sohi, Seema. 鈥淪ites of 鈥楽edition,鈥 Sites of Liberation: Gurdwaras, the Ghadar Party, and Anticolonial Mobilization,鈥 Sikh Formations 10, no. 1 (April 2014): 5-22.
Sohi, Seema.听鈥淩ace, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in the Transnational Western U.S.-Canadian Borderlands,鈥 Journal of American History 98 (September 2011).
Contributions to Edited Collections
Sohi, Seema. 鈥淪outh Asian American Anticolonial Writings: Critical Reflections on Race, Empire and Migration in the United States,鈥澨Asian American Literature in Transition, Josephine Lee and Julia Lee eds., Cambridge University Press, (2021)
Sohi, Seema.听鈥淩epressing the 鈥楬indu Menace鈥: Race, Anarchy, and Indian Anticolonialism," in Vivek Bald, Miabi Chatterji, Sujani Reddy, and Manu Vimalassery, eds., The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in the Age of U.S. Power (New York: New York University Press, 2013).