Clairice Bomie Wyszynski

Clairice Bomie Wyszynski is a PhD student in the Department of History and a Fellow with the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM). Her research explores interracial intimacies in and around the US military before interracial marriage was legalized in the United States. At Yale, Claire looks forward to examining how the transnational experiences of mixed-race military families intersect with the histories of Asian American communities, military base development, and American racial formation in the twentieth century. 

 

Prior to starting her graduate studies, Claire served as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Seogwipo-si, Jeju-do, South Korea. She received a B.A. in History and International Relations from the College of William & Mary. Her undergraduate thesis, which investigated how nineteenth-century doctors employed medicalized nativism against Chinese immigrants to support their own campaigns for local political offices, received the William Elbert Fraley Award and the Undergraduate Research Library Award.