In 2017 she was named the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community.
[2] In 2017 she was appointed to the George and Sakaye Aratani Endowed Chair on the Japanese American Incarceration, Redress, and Community.
[2] Densho calls Matusumoto "our community’s most dedicated chronicler of Japanese American women’s history.
City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950[5] was published in 2014.
In addition, she co-edited with Blake Allmendinger the anthology Over the Edge: Remapping the American West[6] that was published in 1999.