Bruce Makoto Arnold is a retired historian and current archer who competes for the United States Virgin Islands. At the 2024 Youth & Masters Pan Am Championships in San Salvador, he and fellow Virgin Islander, Tatyana Muntyan, set a world record in mixed-team qualifications with a score of 12282024 Youth & Masters Pan Am Championships Results, World Archery Federation, Pg. 158, Accessed: August 11, 2025 and were the first to set a world record in archery from that country.
Archery In 1998, Arnold was an NAA All-American archer at the University of Tulsa, the first All American in archery from that university.https://tulsaworld.com/archive/article_723f7044-bd99-54f3-ace1-f15f8ad532e4.html
Academics Arnold earned degrees in computer science from Salt Lake Community College, the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Tulsa. After these, he earned a bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona, a master's degree in East Asian History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, a master's degree in United States history from Sam Houston State University, and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Charter Oak Stare College. He then earned his PhD at Louisiana State University in 2014,https://history.osu.edu/people/arnold.1041 |access-date=August 10, 2025 and worked as a historian and then as assistant professor of history at Ohio State Universityhttps://history.osu.edu/people/arnold.1041 |access-date=August 10, 2025 before retiring.
Personal life Arnold is married to Ohio State educator Noelle W. Arnold.Acknowledgements, Pacific Childhoods in the Rafu: Multiple Transnational Modernisms and the Los Angeles Nisei, 1918-1942
Publications Bruce Makoto Arnold, Roland W. Mitchell, and Noelle W. Arnold, "Massified Illusions of Difference:Photography and the Mystique of the American Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)", in Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 41 (2015): 69–94.
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