Bruce Arnold

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 1228 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.

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, and worked as a historian and then as assistant professor of history at Ohio State University before retiring.

Personal life Arnold is married to Ohio State educator Noelle W. Arnold.

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.