Congratulations, Djuna Nagasaki
May 26, 2025
Djuna Nagasaki (she/her), fourth year UVic anthropology student, received the 2024-25 W. Kaye Lamb Award for Best Student Works, by the BC Historical Foundation. A $1000 prize for her submission, “‘Am I Japanese? Am I Nikkei?’ An Exploration of the Identifies of Yonsei and Gosei Japanese Canadians”.
Djuna is specializing in visual anthropology and Japanese Canadian identity. Her honours research project examined the impacts of the Internment of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s on fourth and fifth generation Japanese Canadians or “Nikkei” (Japanese Diaspora), reflecting on her own experience as the descendant of Internment camp survivors. Since then, she has been working as a researcher on a project on Mayne Island, which will highlight the history of Japanese Canadians on the gulf island. Besides this, she is very active in her local Japanese Canadian community, working to ensure her Japanese family’s history in B.C. is never forgotten. Next fall, she will be pursuing her Masters in Anthropology at the University of Toronto.