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Alexandria Historical Society Special Award (African American Waterfront Heritage Trail Committee)

Ben Brenman Award for Archaeology (Fort Ward Interpretative Committee)

UMW Summer Research Grant

Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award (IEHS)

Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Award for ASA-JAAS

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Grant with the Office of Historic Alexandria

CAS Dean’s Faculty Grant

Alexandria Historical Society: Past President, Executive Board

Southern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association: Past President, Executive Board

American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project: Co-Chair

African American Maritime Heritage Trail, Office of Historic Alexandria: Co-Chair

Association for Asian American Studies: Member

American Historical Association: Member

American Studies Association: Member

Organization of American Historians: Member

Immigration and Ethnic History Society: Member

La Picadora: A Case Study in Cuban Agroecotourism

African American Heritage Trail

A Chinese Slave in Alexandria? Melissa Ann Hussey’s Eclectic Trousseau

Asians and Asian Americans and the Performing Arts Prior to World War II

Immigration Restrictions and International Education: Early Tensions in the Pacific Northwest, 1890s-1910s

Recruited, Excluded, and (Sort of) Included: the Asian American Experience Seen through Short Films

The Alexandria YWCA, Race, and Urban (and Ethnic) Revival: The Scottish Christmas Walk, 1960s–1970s

The African American Housing Crisis in Alexandria, Virginia, 1930s-1960s

On a Temporary Basis: Immigration, Labor Unions, and the American Entertainment Industry, 1880s–1930s

The Quest for Music’s Origin at the St. Louis World’s Fair: Frances Densmore and the Racialization of Music

HIST 132  - American History Since 1865

Krystyn Moon is a professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia where she is currently a Waple Faculty Fellow. Her teaching and research focus on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history, with a particular focus on northern Virginia and its African American and immigrant communities. She has worked on several public history projects, including “Finding the Fort: African American History and Memory at Fort Ward Historic Park,” a report on a historic neighborhood that Alexandria annexed from Fairfax County in 1952; “Immigrant Alexandria: Past, Present and Future,” an oral history project with post-1965-immigrants funded by Virginia Humanities; and “Documenting Exclusion and Resilience,” a website dedicated to recording racially restrictive covenants in Northern Virginia and the responses by various marginalized communities. Finally, she is the author of the forthcoming book, Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia, which will be published with UNC Press in spring 2025. 

In addition to her public history work, Dr. Moon has researched Asian American history, popular culture, and foodways. This work has appeared in journals such as the Journal of American History, Gastronomica, History of Education Quarterly, and the Journal of Asian American Studies.  The culmination of this work is her book, Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1860s-1920s (2005).

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U.S. Immigration History

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Fairfax County to review property deeds, remove discriminatory language

Racial land covenants helped shape residential segregation in Fairfax County over decades

New research maps racially restrictive covenants around Alexandria

Racist F.C. Past Unveiled In Land Covenants

Lenox Place at Sunnyside: A small oasis of townhouses tucked away in Alexandria

The History of Race, Performance, and Drag Intersect in a Rare Photo of Thomas Dilward

Finding a Place to Call Home: Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia

Alexandria Housing and Segregationist Practices

Race: How was Race Constructed through the Law in Virginia? (with Erin Devlin)

Identification and Documentation Tools for African American Historic Places

Two Racialized Regimes: Everyday Migrations between Virginia and Washington, DC, 1880s-  1920s

From Arlandria to Chirilagua: The Remaking of a Northern Virginia Neighborhood, 1960s-  1980s

Immigration and Exclusion: The Chinese American Experience

Where Allies are Key: Student Discussions around American Immigration

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Professor, History and American Studies

Anti-Asian hate crimes are on the rise in America, and new data has revealed over the past year that the number of these incidents — which can include shunning, verbal harassment and physical attacks — is greater than previously reported. And a disproportionate number  have been directed at Asian women, such as the recent Atlanta spa shootings and the assault on an elderly woman in San Francisco. 

The research released by reporting forum Stop AAPI Hate on Tuesday revealed nearly 3,800 incidents were reported over the course of roughly a year during the pandemic. It’s a significantly higher number than last year's count of about 2,800 hate incidents nationwide over the span of five months. Women made up a far higher share of the reports, at 68 percent, compared to men, who made up 29 percent of respondents. The non-profit does not report incidents to police. The data, which includes incidents that occurred between March 19 of last year and Feb. 28 of this year, shows that roughly 503 incidents took place in 2021 alone. Verbal harassment and shunning were the most common types of discrimination, making up 68.1 percent and 20.5 percent of the reports respectively. The third most common category, physical assault, made up 11.1 percent of the total incidents. More than a third of incidents occurred at businesses, the primary site of discrimination, while a quarter took place in public streets. According to the data, Asian women report hate incidents 2.3 times more than men. A further examination of the submitted reports showed that in many cases, the verbal harassment that women received reflected the very intersection of racism and sexism. March 16 – NBC News


 If you’re a journalist covering this news story, then let us help. Dr. Krystyn Moon is  an expert in U.S. immigration history, popular culture, race and ethnic studies – and is available to speak with media regarding the recent study and the history of the anti-Asian racism and violence in the United States. 

 If you are looking to arrange an interview, simply click on her icon now to book a time today.



Immigration history expert can provide insight on anti-Asian racism in the U.S. 

Alexandria residents will get a first look at proposals that could completely reshape their community. The city is about to unveil plans to address the local housing crisis. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder explains how the foundation for part of the problem was laid decades ago through systemic racism.
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