Patti Duncan Associate Professor and Coordinator Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies School of Language, Culture, and Society Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 [email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 2000, Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA M.A., 1996, Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA B.A., 1992, Psychology with minor in Women’s Studies, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Study Abroad, 1990-1991, Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
Oregon State University
2012-present Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2008-present Associate Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Transnational Feminisms; Women of Color Feminisms; Women in World Cinema; Disney: Gender, Race, Empire; Politics of Motherhood in Global Contexts; Transnational Sexualities; Introduction to Queer Studies; Senior Seminar; Reproductive Justice)
Semester at Sea, University of Virginia
2008 (Fall) Visiting Lecturer (Global Feminisms; Gender and the Global Economy; Sexualities in a Global Context)
Portland State University
2006-2008 Associate Professor, Women’s Studies (Disney: Gender, Race, Empire; Transnational Feminisms; Women of Color in the U.S.; Asian American Feminisms; Senior Seminar; Gender, Migration, and Globalization (Mexico Travel seminar); Gender and Sexualities in Mexico (Mexico Travel Seminar); Graduate Seminar in Women’s Studies; Feminist Theories and Methods)
2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies (Introduction to Women’s Studies; Disney: Gender, Race, Empire; Race, Class, Gender, and Sexualities; Women of Color in the U.S.; Global Feminisms; Senior Seminar)
2004, 2005, 2006 Faculty Mentor, McNair Scholars Program
Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea
2004 (Fall) Visiting Scholar, Asian Center for Women’s Studies
Emory University
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1999-2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for Women’s Studies (Introduction to Women’s Studies; Histories of Sexualities; Asian American Feminisms; Feminist Theories)
1992-1997 Graduate Instructor (Introduction to Women’s Studies; Feminist Theories; History of Feminist Thought; Asian American Feminisms)
Oglethorpe University
1998-2000 Instructor, University College (Introduction to Women’s Studies; Women Writers; Immigrant Women’s Writings; Women and Popular Culture; Gender and Film)
Agnes Scott College
1999 Instructor, Women’s Studies Program (Introduction to Women’s Studies)
Georgia State University
1998 Instructor, Women’s Studies Department (Introduction to Women’s Studies)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Duncan, Patti. Saving Other Children From Other Women: Narratives of Rescue, Migration, and Illegitimate Motherhood. (Book Manuscript In Progress)
Duncan, Patti. Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. Print. (Selected as an Academic Choice Title)
Edited Collections
Susan M. Shaw, Nancy Barbour, Patti Duncan, Kryn Freehling-Burton, and Jane Nichols, eds. Women’s Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia (a four-volume reference collection). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, anticipated 2016.
Duncan, Patti, and Gina Wong, eds. Mothering in East Asian Contexts: Politics and Practices. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2014. Print.
Refereed Articles and Book Chapters
Shirazi, Mehra, Patti Duncan, and Kryn Freehling-Burton. “Representations of Gender, Nation, and Belonging in A Separation.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, forthcoming. Print.
2 Duncan, Patti, “Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Women of Color in the Academy.” Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms. Ed. Janell Hobson. Albany: State University of New York Press, forthcoming. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Women of Color in the Academy.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, 35.3, 2014: 39-63. Print.
Duncan, Patti and Gina Wong. “Mothering in East Asian Communities: Challenges and Possibilities.” Mothers, Mothering, and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences: A Reader. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2014. 107-127. Print.
De Jesus, Melinda, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Patti Duncan, and Linda Pierce Allen. “Asian American Mothering as Feminist Decolonizing Reproductive Labor: Four Meditations on Raising Hapa Boys.” Motherhood in East Asian Contexts: Politics and Practices. Ed. Patti Duncan and Gina Wong. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2014. 239-255. Print.
Duncan, Patti and Gina Wong. “Contextualizing and Politicizing Motherhood in East Asian Contexts: An Introduction.” Motherhood in East Asian Contexts: Politics and Practices. Ed. Patti Duncan and Gina Wong. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2014. 1-27. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Saving Other Children From Other Women: Born into Brothels.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI), 4.2 (fall/winter 2013): 23-33. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Teaching the Politics of Transnational Motherhood.” Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (JMI), 4.1 (spring/summer 2013): 66-79. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Gendered Migrations: Transnational Feminist Perspectives.” The Other People: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration for the 21st Century. Ed. Meg Wilkes Karraker. Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. 37-53. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “In Search of Other ‘Others’: Exploring Representations of Mixed Race Asian Pacific Americans.” Women’s Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Ed. Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company, 6th edition, 2012. 145-151. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Women’s Studies and Study Abroad.” Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students are Changing Themselves and the World. Ed. Michele Tracy Berger and Cheryl Radeloff. New York: Routledge, 2011. 93-95. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Violence Against Women Worldwide.” Women Worldwide: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Women. Ed. Janet Lee and Susan Shaw. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 349-377. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of U.S. Militarism in South Korea.” Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific. Ed. Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 277-307. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Outsiders, Interlopers, and Ingrates: The Tenuous Position of Women of Color in Women's Studies.” Women's Studies Quarterly, 30.3-4 (2002): 2002: 155-168. Print.
3 Duncan, Patti. “Decentering Whiteness: Resisting Racism in the Women's Studies Classroom.” Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics, ed. Bonnie TuSmith and Maureen Reddy. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2002: 40-50.
Duncan, Patti. “The Uses of Silence: Notes on the ‘Will to Unsay.’” Women of Color: Defining the Issues, Hearing the Voices. Ed. Diane Long Hoeveler and Janet K. Boles. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. 21-44. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Claiming Space in the South: A Discussion Among Members of Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Network of Atlanta.” Out in the South. Ed. Carlos L. Dews and Carolyn Leste Law. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 26-55. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “History of Disease.” Q & A: Queer in Asian America. Ed. David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998. 157-165. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Identity, Power, and Difference.” Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology. Ed. Brett Beemyn and Michele Eliason. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 87-114. Print.
Reviews and Other Writings
Chun, Bohkyung and Patti Duncan. “Women in South Korea.” Women’s Lives Around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, Volume 3. Ed. Patti Duncan (Executive Editor Susan Shaw). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, forthcoming. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Asian American Feminism.” Asian American Society. Ed. Mary Yu Danico. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014. 343- 345. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Asian American Motherhood.” Asian American Society. Ed. Mary Yu Danico. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2014. 688-690. Print.
Duncan, Patti. Review of Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, by Mire Koikari. Feminist Formations, 22.1 (Spring 2010): 204-209. Print.
Duncan, Patti. Review of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture, by Lisa Rofel. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 20.2 (Summer 2008): 258-262. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “’Gender, Migration, and Globalization’: A Women’s Studies Travel Seminar to Mexico.” Portland State University’s Office of International Affairs Newsletter, 18 (Spring/Summer 2008): 14-15. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “The Marginalization of Korean Military Wives.” Borderlands 2: Tales from Disputed Territories Between Races and Cultures, Ed. Nia King, 2008. Print.
Duncan, Patti. Review of Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities, and Culture in South Asia, Ed. Sanjay Srivastava. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies, 10.4 (2004): 87-90. Print.
Duncan, Patti. Review of Power, Race, and Gender in Academe, Ed. Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Maria Herrera-Sobek. Feminist Teacher, 14.3 (2003): 268-270. Print.
4 Duncan, Patti. Review of The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies On Race and Feminism, by Aida Hurtado. The Journal of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS), 25.3 (Fall/Winter, 2000): 313-316. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Pass Port: United States of America.” Clamour, 3 (Winter, 1997-1998). Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Bapsi Sidhwa.” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. St. Clair Shores, MI: St. James Press, 1996. 438. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Trinh T. Minh-ha.” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. St. Clair Shores, MI: St. James Press, 1996. 479-480. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Gayle Rubin.” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. St. Clair Shores, MI: St. James Press, 1996. 404-405. Print.
Duncan, Patti. “Lillian Faderman.” Feminist Writers. Ed. Pamela Kester-Shelton. St. Clair Shores, MI: St. James Press, 1996. 167-168. Print.
MIXED MEDIA PRODUCTIONS
Documentary Films
Finding Face, 68:00. Released in 2009. Co-Producer/Co-Director/Writer.
Awards • Winner, National Clarion Award, The Association for Women in Communications 2011 • Winner, Special Jury Award, Human Rights, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011 • Winner, Award for Courage, DisOrient Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2011 • Nominee, Best Documentary, Idyllwild International Film Festival 2011 • Winner, Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Asian Film Festival 2010 • Winner, Silver Hugo Award 2010 • Nominee, Best Documentary, Burbank International Film Festival 2010 • Winner, Best Film, Astoria International Film Festival 2009
Official Selection • Public Service Broadcasting Trust, Open Frame Film Festival 2013, New Delhi, India • Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2011, Los Angeles, CA • DisOrient Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2011, Eugene, OR • Idyllwild International Film Festival 2011, Idyllwild, CA • Luang Prabang International Film Festival 2011, Laos • Bearing Exquisite Witness: A Women Peacemakers Arts Festival, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, 2010, San Diego, CA • San Diego Asian Film Festival 2010, San Diego, CA • Burbank International Film Festival 2010, Burbank, CA • D.C. Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2010, Washington D.C. • Festival du Film et Forum International sur les Droits Humains 2009, Geneva, Switzerland • Festival Internacional de Cine de Los Derechos Humanos 2009, Sucre, Bolivia • Astoria International Film Festival 2009, Astoria, OR • San Francisco Documentary Film Festival 2009, San Francisco, CA
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Broadcast on U.S. public television to an estimated 30 million viewers. National broadcasts in Australia, Denmark, Canada, Poland. Also screened at Oregon State University; Linfield College; the University of San Diego; University of Idaho; Kenworthy Theatre, Moscow, Idaho; Portland Commission for Human Rights, Portland, OR; Portland Community College- Sylvania, Portland, OR; and the Center for the Study of Women at University of Oregon.
Oral History Project, Cambodian-American Community of Oregon, Advisor, 2009.
Switch: A Community in Transition, Co-Producer (feature-length documentary by Brooks Nelson about a community’s response to his transgender identity), 2009.
Bombhunters, Associate Producer (feature-length documentary by Skye Fitzgerald about the long-term consequences of war in Cambodia), 2006.
Official Selection • Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival • Rhode Island International Film Festival • Tahoe/Reno International Film Festival • Palm Springs International Film Festival • Planet In Focus Environmental Film Festival • Mountain Film in Telluride Festival • Roving Eye Documentary Film Festival • Northwest Film & Video Festival • Jackson Hole International Film Festival • Seattle International Human Rights Film Festival • CamboFest, Siem Reap
Radio Production
“An Interview with Marilyn Chin,” APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, October 2, 2009
“An Interview with Singer/Songwriter BettySoo,” APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, September 4, 2009
“An Interview with Kip Fulbeck about the Hapa Project,” APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, May 2, 2008
“Experiences of Mixed-Race Asian Pacific Americans,” Facilitator, Roundtable Discussion, APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, May 2, 2008
“An Interview with Chhom Nimol and Ethan Holtzman of Dengue Fever,” APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, April 4, 2008
6 “An Interview with Lan Pham, Executive Director of Asian Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center, Seattle” (with Toni Tabora-Roberts), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, March 7, 2008
“An Interview with Priscilla Huang of National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum” (with Priya Kandaswamy), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, February 1, 2008
“10,000 Papercuts: Everyday Acts of Racism,” Participant, Roundtable Discussion, APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, December 7, 2007
“An Interview with Asian Pacific American Artists Una Kim and Shu-Ju Wang” (with Kushlani De Soyza), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, November 2, 2007
“An Interview with Many Uch and Doua Thor about Immigration and Deportation in Southeast Asian Communities” (with Liz Rogers), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, June 1, 2007
“An Interview with Marie Rose Wong about Portland’s Chinatowns” (with Priya Kandaswamy), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, May 4, 2007
“The Khmer Rouge Tribunal” (co-executive producer), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, April 6, 2007
“An Interview with Author Judy Fong Bates” (with Marie Lo), APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, March 2, 2007
“Defining Asian Pacific American,” Participant, Roundtable Discussion, APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, January 5, 2007
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Precarious Motherhood: Transnational Feminist Perspectives.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 12-15, 2015.
“Precarious Value? Reflections on the PhD in Gender, Women’s and Feminist Studies.” Roundtable Participant. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 12- 15, 2015.
“Contesting Militarized Racial Modernity in the Asia Pacific.” Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL, April 22-26, 2015.
“Politics of Mothering in East Asian Communities.” Panel Convener and Moderator. Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL, April 22-26, 2015.
“Hot Commodities, Cheap Labor: Faculty of Color Transgressions in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” Roundtable Convener and Moderator. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 13-16, 2014.
“Can Travel Seminars Interrupt the Naturalization of Globalization? Examining a Graduate Seminar in India.” Roundtable Participant. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 13-16, 2014.
7 “Integrating Motherhood Studies into a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program Curriculum.” With Kryn Freehling-Burton. Mothers, Mothering, and Motherhood from Ancient to Contemporary Times, an International Conference of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI). Athens, Greece, May 22-24, 2014.
“Women and Development.” Moderator. Globalized Approaches Towards a Paradigm Shift in Women’s and Young Adult Development: A Multi-Dimensional Perspective. PSGR Krishnammal College, Coimbatore, India, January 23-24, 2014.
“Feminist Approaches to Representations of (Racialized, Gendered) Girlhood.” Women in the 21st Century IX International Conference. University of Havana, Cuba. November 25-29, 2013. (Unable to attend.)
“Empowering (Academic) Encounters: Creating Community Across Differences in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.” Roundtable Convener and Participant. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7-10, 2013.
“When Rights Don’t Fix the Wrongs: Perspectives in Reproductive Justice.” Moderator. National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7-10, 2013.
“Gender, Violence, and Separations: Representing Mothers and Daughters in Iran.” With Kryn Freehling- Burton and Mehra Shirazi. Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference, Vancouver, WA, October 10-12, 2013.
“Anti-Imperialist Grrlz Raising Feminist Hapa Boyz.” Roundtable Participant. “The Afterlives of Empire.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Seattle, WA, April 17-20, 2013.
“Reproductive Justice in Chicana/Latina Communities: A Service-Learning Course.” Roundtable Convener and Participant. National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Oakland, CA, November 8-11, 2012.
“Teaching the Politics of Transnational Motherhood.” Sponsored Panel of the Feminist Mothering Caucus: Motherhood Studies Unbound: Negotiating and (Re)Imagining Our Disciplinary Future. National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Oakland, California, November 8-11, 2012.
“Contesting Colonial Authority: Pacific Rim Comparisons.” Panel Chair and Commentator. Western Association of Women Historians Annual National Conference, Berkeley, CA, May 3-6, 2012.
“Saving Other Children From Other Women: Narratives of Rescue, Migration, and Illegitimate Motherhood.” Mothers and Mothering in a Global Context, an International Conference of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies: The Nita Barrow Unit, University of the West Indies. Hastings, Christ Church, Barbados, February 24-25, 2012.
“Decolonizing Methodologies: How Women of Color Studies Transforms Women’s Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 10-13, 2011.
“’They Are Taking Over Our Jobs’: A Narrative of Racialization and Retaliation.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 22-26, 2009.
“Teaching and Learning About Transnational Feminism in Women’s and Gender Studies.” Roundtable
8 Convener and Moderator, with students from my graduate seminar. Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium, Portland, Oregon, March 12-14, 2008.
“Women in (the Margins of) the Field: Positionality, Power, and Field Research.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, St. Charles, Illinois, June 28-July 1, 2007. (Unable to attend.)
“Gendered Effects of U.S. Militarism in South Korea: Amerasian Children and the Economy of Transnational Adoption.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, New York, NY, April 4-8, 2007.
“Amerasians and Adoptees in South Korea: Gender and Militarism in Asia.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Oakland, CA, June 15-18, 2006.
“Developing a Transnational Feminist Response to Acid Violence in Cambodia.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Oakland, CA, June 15-18, 2006.
“Whose History, Whose Voice? Asian/Asian American Women and the Politics of the Past.” Plenary Speaker. Recovering the Past: History Then and Now, Conference of the New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, Monmouth University, NJ, April 7, 2006.
“Teaching the ‘Other’ in Towns and Countries: Strategies, Resistance, Resolutions.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) National Conference, Chicago, IL, April 7-9, 2005.
“Problems and Solutions: Responding to Climate, Mentoring, and Advocacy Issues for Women of Color in the Academy.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) National Conference, Chicago, IL, April 7-9, 2005.
“Asian/Asian American Women and Women’s Studies: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Nation.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 17-20, 2004.
“Coming Out in Ethnic Studies: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Sexuality.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 17-20, 2004.
“The NWSA Contemporary Curriculum Transformation Project: The Transforming Significance of Women of Color to Women’s Studies Curricula” (three sessions). Workshop Leader, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, June 17-20, 2004.
“Identity Politics Renamed: When the Body Becomes the Text.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) National Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 10-13, 2004.
“Negotiating the Paradox of Diversity and Institutional Fit: Strategies of Survival and Resistance for Women of Color Faculty.” Roundtable Participant. Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) National Conference, San Antonio, TX, March 10-13, 2004.
“What Women’s Studies Ph.D. Graduates Do: A Different Kind of Academic.” Plenary Speaker, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 19-22, 2003.
“Breathing Fire: Asian American Women and Women’s Studies.” National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 19-22, 2003.
9 “Womanism or Feminism? Why Some Non-Western Feminists Resent the Term.” Roundtable Participant. Feminisms: Looking Back, Moving Forward Conference, Portland, OR, April 25-26, 2003.
“Home-Place in the Academy—An Oxymoron? Women of Color and the Politics of Creating and Sustaining Community.” Roundtable Participant. Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) 17th Annual Conference, Boca Raton, FL, April 10-13, 2003.
“Teaching Race and Surviving to Tell About It.” Plenary Speaker, Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) 16th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 11-14, 2002.
“Practical Considerations When Race Enters the Classroom.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS) 16th Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 11-14, 2002.
“Ingrates at the Gate: Women of Color in Women’s Studies Programs.” National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 13-17, 2001.
“Junior Faculty Experiences in Women’s Studies.” (With Lisa Weasel), National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 13-17, 2001.
“Dragon Lady Meets the Model Minority: The Paradoxical Position for Asian Pacific American Women Faculty.” Visible, Yet Marginalized: Voicing a National Agenda for Asian/Pacific Americans in Higher Education, The Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Conference, sponsored by University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco, CA, April 5-8. 2001.
“'Audience, Distant Relative’: Questions of Audience and Authenticity in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee.” Gender and Activism: Looking Back, Marching Forward, 20th Annual Gender Studies Symposium at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, March 14-16, 2001.
“Same-Sex Domestic Violence and Asian / Pacific Islander Queer Women.” Roundtable Participant, Asian Institute on Domestic Violence, The Next Millennium Conference: Ending Domestic Violence, Chicago, IL, August 27-29, 1999.
“‘I am Korea, I am a Woman, I am Alive’: Translating History Through National and Familial Narratives in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.” South Central Modern Language Association Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 12-14, 1998.
“Language and Silences: Asian American Women Writing Under Erasure.” Women’s Voices, Women’s Silences, Third Annual Women’s Studies Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, March 5- 7, 1998.
“How to Breathe Fire and Survive: Asian Pacific American Feminism.” Annual Atlantic Coast Asian American Students Union Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 26-28, 1998.
“Organizing Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women in the South.” Queering the South: A National Conference Sponsored by the Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, June 25-26, 1997.
“Others Among Others: Exclusions and Marginalizations Within Asian Pacific America.” Annual Atlantic Coast Asian American Students Union Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, February 7-9, 1997.
“The Uses of Silence: Notes on ‘Open Secrets’ and Racialized Sexuality.” American Women of Color
10 Across the Women’s Studies Curriculum, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, March 15-16, 1996.
“Identity, Power, and Difference.” InQueery, InTheory, InDeed, 6th North American Conference on Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, November 17-20, 1994.
“Asian/Pacific Islander Lesbians: Intersections of Race and Sexuality.” Annual Atlantic Coast Asian American Students Union Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, November 4-6, 1994.
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
“Genealogies of Unbelonging: Contesting Legacies of U.S. Militarism.” Invited Lecture, Department of History and Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University, January 15, 2015.
Mothering in East Asian Communities: Politics and Practices. Interviewed by Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, December 16, 2014.
“Diverse Voices of Feminism.” Panel. Women’s Center, Oregon State University, May 22, 2013.
“Kip Fulbeck’s ‘100% Hapa’ and Critical Mixed Race Studies,” Oregon Nikkei Center, August 4, 2011.
Finding Face (screening and discussion), International Women’s Issues Speakers Series. Women’s Center, Oregon State University, April 5, 2011.
“Acid Attacks and Gendered Violence.” University of Maryland, College Park. February 18, 2011.
Interviewed by Sarika Mehta about Finding Face and my research. APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, February 4, 2011.
Finding Face (screening and discussion), Portland Human Rights Commission, December 10, 2009.
“Acid Violence in Cambodia.” University of Idaho Women’s Center, October 14, 2009.
Finding Face (screening and discussion), Kenworthy Theater, Moscow, ID, October 14, 2009.
Facilitator for Multiracial Asian Pacific American Listening Circle, Asian Pacific Americans Network of Oregon (APANO), September 21, 2009.
Facilitator for Workshop on Memoir Writing, Thymos, an Asian Pacific American intellectual and political organization, September 13, 2009.
“Violence Against Women: Acid Throwing in Cambodia.” Interviewed by Pam Atherton, A Closer Look, Achieve Radio, August 27, 2009.
“Finding Face: Acid Violence Against Women.” Interviewed by Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, August 11, 2009.
“Asian Pacific American Filmmakers.” Interviewed by Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, May 18, 2009
Finding Face (screening and discussion), Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, San Diego State University, April 30, 2009.
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Finding Face. Interviewed by Carl Wolfson and Christine Alexander, Air America, KPOJ, 620 AM, March 20, 2009.
Finding Face and the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights. Interviewed by Susan Flory, On The Beat, World Radio Switzerland, 88.4 FM in Geneva, March 13, 2009.
Faculty Keynote, Convocation, Semester at Sea Fall 2008 Voyage.
“Fighting Back, Forging Ahead: Dissent in Global Sex Work and Feminist Activism & the Nonprofit Industrial Complex.” Moderator, Women’s Studies Student Colloquium, Portland State University, May 16, 2008.
“A Transnational Feminist Response to Acid Violence in Cambodia.” Lecture for Women’s Resource Center, Portland State University, February 21, 2008.
“Korean Comfort Women.” Speaker for Sahngoksoo and Pinay Sa (Korean American and Filipino Community Groups), Seattle, WA, October 18, 2007.
“Comparative Perspectives on Asian American and Asian Canadian Literature,” Roundtable Participant, Everybody Reads Community Reading Project, Portland, OR, February 26, 2007.
“Chour Sreya: A Case of Acid Violence in Cambodia.” Presentation for Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), December 22, 2006.
“Global Feminisms.” Roundtable Discussion for International Women’s Day (with Veronica Dujon and Marie Lo), KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, March 8, 2006.
Bombhunters. Interviewed by Dmae Roberts, Stage and Studio, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, December 6, 2005.
“Bombhunters and the history of war in Cambodia.” Interviewed by APA Compass, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, December 2, 2005.
“Militarization and the Global Economy: Korean Women Workers.” Speaker for Radical Women, Bread and Roses Center, Portland, OR, July 13, 2005.
“Problematizing Notions of ‘Community’: Community in Capstones.” Panelist for Capstone Conference, Portland State University, Portland, OR, June 3, 2005.
“Immigration, Assimilation, and Identity.” Respondent/Panelist for Premiere Screening of Sun Gu Ja: 100 Years of Korean History in Oregon. Whitsell Auditorium, Portland Art Museum, July 9, 2004.
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. Book Reading, Voices of Asian Pacific Islander Women, SE Multicultural Center, Portland, OR May 31, 2004.
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. Book Reading, Multicultural Center, Portland Community College, Portland, OR, May 4, 2004.
Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. Book Reading, In Other Words Women’s Bookstore, Portland, OR, April 29, 2004.
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Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech. Book Reading and Book Release Party, Looking Glass Bookstore, Portland, OR, March 16, 2004.
“Asian American Woman and Tell This Silence.” Interviewed by Johanna Brenner, KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, International Women’s Day, February 2004.
“Understanding Feminism.” Presentation for Women’s Resource Center, Portland State University, Portland, OR, September 26, 2003.
“Understanding the Experiences of Students and Faculty of Color.” Speaker for Portland State University Community of Color Banquet, February 28, 2003.
“Organizing Queer People of Color.” Speaker for Queer Awareness Week, Portland State University, Portland, OR, April 23, 2002.
“Dismantling Racism in Anti-Domestic Violence Work.” Workshop Facilitator for Clackamas Women’s Services and Volunteers of America, Portland, OR 2001-2003.
“Class/Classism.” Workshop Facilitator for The Illumination Project, Portland Community College, Sylvania, Portland, OR, December 6, 2001.
“Coming Out as Queer and Asian Pacific American: Notes on Silence and (In)Visibility in Queer and Asian Pacific American Communities.” Colloquium Speaker, Ethnic Studies Department, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, May 9, 2001.
“Teaching Feminism.” Interviewed by Kimberly Springer, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, November, 2000.
“Cartographies of Silence: Language and Nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee.” Colloquium Speaker, Asian/Asian American Studies, Emory University, December 2, 1996.
HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
• Thomas R. Meehan Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University, 2015 • University Honors College Professor of the Year Award, Oregon State University, 2015 • Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, 2015 • Everyone Matters @ OSU Advocate Award, Office of Equity and Inclusion, Oregon State University, 2015 • Travel Grant, Short Term Study Abroad Programs, Oregon State University, 2015 • Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, 2013 • Summer Research Grant, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, 2013 • Faculty Internationalization Grant, Oregon State University, 2013 • College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, Oregon State University, 2012-2013 • Summer Research Grant, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University 2012
13 • Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC) Grant, Portland, OR 2011-2012 • Global Learning Initiative Course Development, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 • Hybrid Course Development, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 • Faculty Release Time Research Grant, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 • Research Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University. “Saving Other Children from Other Women: Narratives of Rescue, Migration, and Illegitimate Motherhood,” Fall 2011 • Summer Research Grant, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, 2011 • Social Justice and Diversity Award, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, 2011 • National Clarion Award, The Association for Women in Communications (for Finding Face), 2011 • Best Documentary Feature, San Diego Asian Film Festival (for Finding Face), 2011 • Special Jury Prize for Human Rights, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (for Finding Face), 2011 • Courage Award, DisOrient Asian Pacific American Film Festival (for Tat Marina and Finding Face), 2011 • Silver Hugo Award (for Finding Face), 2010 • Best Film, Astoria International Film Festival (for Finding Face), 2009 • Exemplary Community Volunteer (for APA Compass Collective), Asian Reporter Foundation Tenth Annual Awards Banquet, Portland, OR, April 2008 • Professional Travel Grant, Portland State University, 2008 • President’s Internationalization Initiative Grant, “Documenting Acid Violence as a Gendered Form of Violence and a Human Rights Violation,” Portland State University, 2007-2008 • Faculty Enhancement Grant, “A Transnational Feminist Response to Acid Violence in Cambodia,” Portland State University, 2007-2008 • President’s Diversity Action Council Grant, “Documenting Acid Violence Against Women in Cambodia,” Portland State University, 2006-2007 • AIM Grant, “Gender, Migration, and Globalization: A Women’s Studies Travel Seminar in Mexico,” Portland State University, 2006-2007 • Cambodian-American Community of Oregon President’s Award for Humanitarian Service, Portland, OR, December 2006 • Faculty Enhancement Grant, “Gender, War, and Militarization,” Portland State University, 2005- 2006 • Academic Choice, Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press), Association of Colleges and Research Libraries, 2005 • Faculty Enhancement Grant, “Lotus Blossoms, Dragon Ladies, and Model Minorities: Cultural Representations of Asian American Women, Gender, and Sexuality,” Portland State University, 2003-2004 • President’s Diversity Action Council Grant, Portland State University, 2003-2004 • McKenzie River Gathering Foundation Community Grant, Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls (community partner), Portland, OR, 2002-2003 • Community Action Engagement Grant, Portland State University, 2002-2003 • President’s Diversity Action Council Grant, Portland State University, 2002-2003 • John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award, Portland State University. 2001-2002 • President’s Diversity Action Council Grant, Portland State University, 2001-2002 • Civil Liberties Public Education Fund National Fellowship for Dissertation, 1997-1998 • Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Dissertation Grant in Women’s Studies, 1997- 1998
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MENTORING
Graduate Student Committees
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, BohKyung Chun, Anthropology, Oregon State University, 2012- present Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Elham Maqsood, College of Design and Human Environment, Oregon State University, 2012-present Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Jamie Petts, Anthropology, Oregon State University, 2013- present Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Sabrina Marie Hadeed, Counselor Education, Oregon State University, 2014-present Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Claire Oliveros, “The Role of a Filipino American Student Association Within a Predominantly White Institution: A Critical Ethnography,” Department of Education, Oregon State University, 2006-2009 Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member, Karen Morgaine, “Domestic Violence and Human Rights: Bringing the International Movement Home,” School of Social Work, Portland State University 2005-2007 Masters Thesis Chair, Daryl Adkins, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2014-present Masters Thesis Chair, Yamilet Alas, “Women of Color and Reproductive Justice.” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2013-present Masters Thesis Chair, Drew Dakessian, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2014-present Masters Thesis Chair, Tami Fawcett, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2015-present Masters Thesis Chair, O’Dessa Monnier, “Women’s Political Autobiographies.” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2012-present Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) Chair, Chelsea Whitlow Shay, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Art, Oregon State University, 2015-present Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) Chair, Neha Neelwarne, “Toward a Framework for a Feminist Microfinance Organization,” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Business Administration, Oregon State University, 2011-2013 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) Chair, Stephanie Glick, “Unpacking Success: How Women and Girls Measure Up at the Mitraniketan School,” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Teacher Counselor Education, Oregon State University, 2011-2013 Masters Thesis Chair, Nancy Barbour, “Global Citizen, Global Consumer: University Study Abroad and the Eat, Pray, Love Multicultural Model.” Women Studies, English, and Education, Oregon State University, 2009-2012 Masters Thesis Chair, Heather Montes Ireland, “Transnational Feminism and the Microfinance (R)evolution: Excavating Microlending from Neoliberalism,” Women Studies and Ethnic Studies, Oregon State University, 2009-2011 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Suha Hassen, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2014-present Masters Thesis Committee Member, Andrés Lopez, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2014-present Masters Thesis Committee Member, Sophia Mantheakis, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2015- Present Masters Thesis Committee Member, Megan Spencer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2015- Present
15 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Luhui Whitebear, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Ethnic Studies, 2015-Present Masters Thesis Committee Member, Rebecca Amantia, Public Health, 2015 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Carolyn (Sudy) Storm, Anthropology, Oregon State University, 2013-2015 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Whitney Jones, “Negotiating Conflicted Climates: The Experiences of Transgender Students Attending Women’s Colleges.” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2013-2014 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Sahar Mohtashami Pour, “’Freedom from What?’ Iraqi Women’s Narratives from the 2003 U.S.-Led War.” Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University, 2013-2014 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Erin Dubyak, “’Flying the Plane as We Build It’: A Qualitative Study of an Organization’s Goals and Actions Toward the Prevention of Exploited Female Youth,” Women Studies, Oregon State University, 2012 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Rachel Brinker, “’Walloped’ by the Weather? Deflections, Diversions, and Dubious Representations of Women in Climate Change Discourse.” Women Studies and Sociology, Oregon State University, 2010-2012 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Nadya Al-Sheikly, “Saudi Arabian Women: Pursuing Higher Education at Oregon State University,” Education and Women Studies, Oregon State University, 2009-2012 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Andrea Doyle, “The Impact of Feminist Pedagogy on Students Enrolled in Online Women’s Studies Courses,” Women Studies and Sociology, Oregon State University, 2010-2011 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) Committee Member, Maureen Dowd, “Women in Architecture.” Women Studies and Education, 2010-2011 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Elizabeth McNeil, “Wedding Bells, Binaries, and the Heterosexual Menace,” Women Studies, Oregon State University, 2010 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Erin McKee, “The Use of Propaganda in U.S.-Iran Discourse,” Conflict Resolution Program, Portland State University 2007-2008 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Emiko Noma, “Women Taking Agency During Violent Conflict,” Conflict Resolution Program, Portland State University 2007-2008 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Molly Griffith, “But is it Art? Gender and Authority Attainment in Arts Professions,” Department of Sociology, Portland State University, 2007 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Sarah Lewis, “Social Constructions of Gender,” Department of Sociology, Portland State University 2005-2008 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Kelly Scharich, “Genderqueer Meets the Doc: Masculine-Identified Transgender Individuals and Health Care,” Department of Sociology, Portland State University, 2005 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Troy Montserrat-Gonzales, “Reading Between the Lines: Mixed Race, Marginalization, and the Problem of Individuation,” Conflict Resolution Program, Portland State University, 2003-2008 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Christina Vidlund. “Racial Identity Formation in Korean-American Transracial Adoptees,” Department of Sociology, Portland State University, 2003-2008 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Jenny Johnson-Riley, “Chinese Diasporic Literature,” Department of English, Portland State University, 2001-2007 Masters Thesis Committee Member, Beka Smith, "Gay Bars, Vice, and Reform in Portland, 1948-1965,” Department of History, Portland State University 2001-2002
Other Mentoring
Honors Thesis Chair, Gillian Downey, University Honors College, Oregon State University, 2014-present
16 Honors Thesis Chair, Anjali Menon, “Healthcare Needs of the Queer Female Diaspora.” University Honors College, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 Honors Thesis Committee Member, Laura Tanner, “Epistemic Violence and the Social Construction of Teenage Pregnancy and Motherhood in the U.S.,” University Honors College, Oregon State University, 2012-2013 Honors Thesis Committee Member, Jennifer Kimsey, “Women in Slasher Films,” University Honors College, Oregon State University, 2010 Faculty Mentor for McNair Scholar, Holly Hernandez, “Children of Incarcerated Mothers,” Summer 2006 Faculty Mentor for McNair Scholar, Jaye Sablan, “Asian Pacific Islander Women and Mental Health,” Summer 2005 Faculty Chaperone for five PSU McNair students, Annual McNair Student Symposium, Berkeley, CA, August 11-14, 2005 Faculty Mentor for McNair Scholar, Osa Atoe, “Community Organizing,” Summer 2004 Faculty Mentor for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Grant, Lisa Davila and Kathy Cook, “Diversity and Development,” Portland State University, 2002-2003 Faculty Mentor for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Grant, Leslie Wilson, “Gender Maps: Narrative Perspectives on Transgender and Sex Worker Histories,” Portland State University, 2002-2003 Faculty Mentor for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Grant, Mashinda Hedgmon, “Using Ground Rules to Create Safer Classroom Spaces,” Portland State University, 2002-2003 Faculty Director, Undergraduate Student Survey Project (Tamara Anderson, Emily Broughton, Tanya Pluth, and Maresa Ponitch), to assess the academic climate for students of color, Women’s Studies Program, funded by Diversity Action Council, Portland State University, 2000-2001 Faculty Advisor, Student Steering Committee, Women’s Studies Program, Portland State University, 2000-2001 Faculty Advisor, Women of Color Caucus, Women’s Studies Program, Portland State University, 2000- 2001
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
• Editor, Feminist Formations (Johns Hopkins University Press), 2016-2021 • Co-Chair, Site Committee, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) 2017 Conference in Portland, Oregon • Book Review Editor, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI), 2013-2015 • Chair, Sara A. Whaley Book Prize Committee, National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), 2015-2017 • Advisory Board, Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI), 2013-2015 • Reviewer, Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2015-present • Reviewer, Studies in the Novel, 2014-2015 • Reviewer, Journal of the Research Institute of Asian Women (RIAW), 2013-2014 • Reviewer, Transforming Scholarship: Why Women’s and Gender Studies Students are Changing Themselves and the World, 2nd, edition, ed. Michele Berger and Cheryl Radeloff, Routledge, 2013 • Reviewer, Asian American Literature: Discourses and Pedagogies, special issue of the Journal of Asian American Literature and Popular Visual Culture, 2013. • Adviser, ITVS Curricula Collection for PBS series based on Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn (exploring themes including sex trafficking, maternal health, women’s education, violence against women, and financial empowerment), 2012
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SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY
• Board of Directors, MediaRites, Portland, OR, 2008-2009, 2013-present http://www.mediarites.org • Mentor for Emerging Asian Pacific American Community Organizers, Asian and Pacific Network of Oregon (APANO), 2013 • Reviewer, The Asian & Pacific Islander Communities in Multnomah County: An Unsettling Profile, for Coalition of Communities of Color, Portland, Oregon, 2011 • Collective Member, APA Compass (Asian Pacific American Public Affairs Program), KBOO Community Radio, 90.7 FM, 2006-2011 http://kboo.fm/APACompass • Board of Directors, Cambodian-American Community of Oregon, 2007-2011 http://www.cacoregon.org • Planning Committee, Khmer Rouge Tribunal Public Forum, Portland, OR, 2007 • Board of Directors, Funding Exchange (FEX), New York, NY, 2005 • Board of Directors and Secretary, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, Portland, OR, 2003- 2006 • Chair, Search Committee for Executive Director, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation, Portland, OR, 2003-2004 • Alumni Interviewer, Office of Admissions, Vassar College, 2003-present • Board of Directors, Korean American Citizens League, Portland, OR, 2003-2005 • Board of Directors, Open Hand School for Self Defense, Portland, OR, 2002 • “Dismantling Racism in Anti-Domestic Violence Work.” Workshop Facilitator for Clackamas Women's Services and Volunteers of America, Portland, OR, 2001-2003 • Board of Directors and Organizing Committee Member, Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls, Portland, OR, 2000-2002
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
At Oregon State University
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• Program Coordinator, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2012-present • University Honors College Curriculum Committee, 2014-2016 • Search Committee for Coordinator of Pride Center, 2015 • Selection Committee, Graduate School Travel Awards, 2015-2016 • Chair, MA Admissions Committee, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2014-2015 • Promotion and Tenure Committee for colleague in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2015 • Third Year Review Committee for two colleagues in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2014-2015 • Member, Women of Color Coalition, 2014-present • Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2013-2014 • Search Committee for Coordinator of Women’s Center, 2014 • Third Year Review Committee for colleague in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2013-2014 • Pride Center Advisory Board, 2013-2015 • Graduate School Travel Awards Committee, 2013-2014 • Multicultural Grad Connect Event, Intercultural Student Services, Fall 2013 • Chair, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Scholarships Committee, 2012-2013, 2013-2014 • Faculty Senate, 2012-2015 • Promotion Committee for Ana Warren, World Languages and Cultures, 2014-2015 • Chair, Promotion Committee for Kryn Freehling-Burton, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2013-2014 • Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Ron Mize, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2013 • Promotion and Tenure Committee for Nana Osei-Kofi, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2013 • CLA Research Grant Program Award Committee, 2013 • Curriculum Committee, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 2013-present • Chair, Review Committee, Advisor Position, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2013 • Advisory Council, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2012-present • Social Justice Minor Committee, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2012-present • Promotion Committee for Angela Palacios, Foreign Languages and Literatures, 2012-2013 • Search Committee, Dean of the University Honors College, 2012 • Chair, Search Committee for Assistant Professor in Queer Studies, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2011-2012 • Mentor to Assistant Professor, Norma Cardenas (Mentoring Program of College of Liberal Arts), 2011-2013 • Tenured Faculty Diversity Initiative (TFDI) Committee, 2010-present • Judy Mann DiStefano Scholarship Committee, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012 • President’s Commission on the Status of Women, 2009-2012 • University Honors College Council, Faculty Senate, 2009-2012 • Judge, Honors College Thesis Fair, 2011 • Third Year Review Committee for Norma Cardenas, Ethnic Studies, 2011 • Graduate Programs Committee, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2010-2011 • Search Committee for Associate Professor in Global/Local Food Crisis, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2011
19 • Search Committee for Visiting Assistant Professor in Native American Studies, School of Language, Culture, and Society, 2011 • Curriculum Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2009-2011 • Promotion and Tenure Committee for Robert Thompson, Ethnic Studies Department, Spring 2009
At Portland State University
• Search Committee, Women’s Studies Office Coordinator, 2007 • Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies, 2005-2006 • Governing Board, Women's Studies, 2000-2008 • Curriculum Committee, Women’s Studies, 2001-2008 • Personnel Committee, Women’s Studies, 2002-2008 • Diversity Recognition Scholarship Selection Committee, 2002-2003, 2003-2004, 2006-2007 • Graduate Scholarship Selection Committee, 2003-2004, 2006-2007 • Search Committee, Women's Resource Center Coordinator, 2006 • Organizer/Moderator, Women’s Studies Colloquium Series on Race and Gender, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003 • Nancy Ryles Returning Women Students Scholarships Selection Committee, 2001-2002 • Women's Studies Scholarship Selection Committee, 2001-2002 • Anti-Racism Initiative Committee, Women’s Studies, 2000-2001, 2001-2002 • Anti-Racism Workshop Committee (planning anti-racist pedagogy workshops) Women's Studies, 2000-2001 • Interview with The Vanguard (Student Newspaper), November, 2000
At Emory University
• Task Force for Women’s Studies Undergraduate Curriculum, 1999-2000 • Steering Committee for Asian Studies Program, 1996-1997
SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
• Faculty Success Program, National Center for Faculty Diversity and Development, 2015 • Global Learning Initiative Faculty Learning Community, Center for Teaching and Learning, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 • Hybrid (Blended Learning) Faculty Learning Community, Center for Teaching and Learning, Oregon State University, 2011-2012 • Service-Learning Seminar, School of Language, Culture, and Society, Oregon State University, Summer 2011. • Korean Language, Berlitz Academy, Portland, OR, Summer 2004. • Crossing Borders: Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Global Perspective, Sponsored by The New Jersey Project on Inclusive Scholarship, Curriculum, and Teaching, Cuernavaca, Mexico, May 29-June 7, 2003. • Anti-Racist Pedagogy Workshops (Organizer and Participant), Women’s Studies Department, Portland State University, 2001-2003.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of University Women (AAUW)
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REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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