Terumi Rafferty-Osaki

Terumi Rafferty-Osaki earned his Ph.D. in history from American University where he served as a Graduate Fellowship Advisor for the Office of Merit Awards. He moved to Florida undertaking the role of Assistant Director for External and Competitive Fellowships and Pre-Health Professions at Rollins College before founding the Office of Competitive Fellowships at Florida Gulf Coast University. His research focuses on the performance and perceptions of masculinity during Nikkei Incarceration as well as sports history. Dr. Rafferty-Osaki has been featured on C-SPAN and published with the NINE, Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, and “Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project.” He is excited to return to the region of his alma mater, Boston College, and dreams of finally completing the Boston Marathon.