Betsy Brody
2021
Richardson
Betsy Brody’s research centers the stories of immigrants and refugees. Her book, Opening the Door (Routledge, 2000), documents the experience of Japanese-Brazilians attempts to integrate into Japanese society in the 1990s. Betsy was the recipient, in 2018, of the Charlton Oral History Research Grant awarded by Baylor University’s Institute for Oral History. Through this grant, Betsy created the “Becoming Texans, Becoming Americans” Oral History Project documenting the arrival, settlement, and integration of Vietnamese refugees in North Texas following the fall of Saigon in 1975. Her current research, undertaken as an ACLS/Mellon Fellow, is an oral history and archival project entitled “Digging In” which explores how food, culture, and class shape the story of Asian Dallas. Betsy graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1994 with her B.A. in Political Science and Japanese and was a Fulbright Scholar at Niigata University in Japan. She completed her M.A. (1997) and doctorate (2000) at the University of Notre Dame.