Jamie Henricks
Jamie Henricks is the Archivist at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM). She provides support to scholars, families, and colleagues looking for objects and stories from the collections at JANM and facilitates research visits (in addition to assisting with exhibitions, donations, loans, and many other projects!). She has a Master of Library and Information Science degree from UCLA, and has previous experience working with archival collections and rare materials at Pepperdine University and UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Updated August 2020
Stories from This Author
The MIS: Boots on the Ground in the Pacific
Sept. 2, 2020 • Jamie Henricks
Collections Management staff at the Japanese American National Museum often provide photographs and scans of items from the museum’s collections to highlight anniversaries, holidays, and current events on JANM’s social media channels. Given the limited caption length allowed on social media, not all the rich details and intriguing stories that accompany these artifacts make their way online. When I discovered too many interesting pictures and handwritten photograph captions for a single Instagram post, I decided an article was in order. …
The Story of Citizen USA
Aug. 5, 2020 • Shawn Iwaoka , Jamie Henricks
The release of the book Citizen USA by the Japanese American National Museum has been over 75 years in the making. Written at the Manzanar concentration camp between 1942 and 1943 by the Director of Adult Education, Charles K. Ferguson, yet never released at the time, the unpublished manuscript was donated to JANM by Charles Ferguson’s wife, Lois, in 2002. This unique work, unseen for decades, was recently shepherded through the publication process by Maria Kwong, JANM’s Director of Retail …
