Katy Whalen published a chapter in the newly published anthology, Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories, ed. Connie Chiang (University of Washington Press). Her chapter, “A New Immigration Peril: Race and Erasure in the Making of the Pacific Oyster on Washington’s Coast,” examines the roles that Japanese immigrant labor, scientific knowledge, and economic connections played in successfully transplanting a Japanese variety oyster into Washington’s tidelands beginning in the 1920s, a time when anti-Japanese sentiment in the US was ascendant. With its arrival the Japanese oyster detractors cast it as an unwelcome and environmentally dangerous outsider; it was only in remaking it the “Pacific” oyster, that WA growers were able to assure the consuming public of its wholesome “Americanness.”