Laura Sachiko Fugikawa University of Southern California 3425 Bellevue Ave. Apt.2 American Studies and Ethnicity Los Angeles, CA 90026 3470 Trousdale Parkway WPH 303 323-906-8566 Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033 [email protected]

Education

2004 - Present Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity Dissertation: Domestic Containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and the Cultural Politics of Relocation University of Southern California Gender Studies Certificate

October 2007 M.A. in American Studies and Ethnicity University of Southern California

August 2004 M.A. in American Studies University of New Mexico Specializations: Race, Class, Gender, and Postcolonial Theory Thesis, passed with distinction: The Queerest of the Queer: The Mixed Race Body in Postcolonial Texts

December 2000 B.A. in University Studies, summa cum laude University of New Mexico Specializations: Women Studies, Creative Writing and Law

Grants and Scholarships Dissertation Research and Writing Award, University of Southern California, 2010 Graduate and Professional Student Conference Travel Award, University of Southern California, 2010 Diversity Enhancement Placement Assistance Award, University of Southern California, 2009 Graduate Professionalization Initiative Award, University of Southern California, 2009 Diversity Placement Assistance Grant, University of Southern California, 2008 College Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2004 American Studies Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Grant, UNM, 2002-2003 American Studies Graduate Student Association Presentation Grant, UNM, 2002 Albuquerque Lesbian and Gay Chamber of Commerce Scholarship, 1999

Presentations “Remembering Relocation in Los Angeles” Annual American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio TX, (upcoming 2010). "Respatializing the Urban: The Changing Landscape under Relocation," New Futures Institute, Dartmouth College, NH, June 2010. "Documenting Native Americans through Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles," USC Native American Research Group, Los Angeles CA, 2010. “Containment through Dispersal: Assimilation Campaigns and the Shift to Ideological Containment.” Annual American Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, 2009.

1 “Negotiating Labor, Space, and Sexuality in Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV 2009. “Just Beyond the Horizon: TA's Teach the Continuing Relevance of Women's Studies.” National Women Studies Conference. Oakland, June 2006. “Re-thinking Joey Sands: The Postcolonial Text and the Mixed Race Body.” Thinking Gender Conference. UCLA, March 2005. “Mothers and Their Mixed Race Daughters” Panel, Women of Color-Mixed Heritage Ethnicity and Race Conference. UNM, March 2004. “On the Way to Grandma’s House: Representations of American Indians on 1-40.” Co- presenter, Rocky Mountain Popular Culture and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, February 2003. “Native American Humor as Resistance: Analysis of Native American Humor in Film, Stand up Comedy, and Contemporary Music.” Rocky Mountain Popular Culture and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, February 2002.

Selected Lectures and Colloquia "Relocation in the West: The History of Forced Migrations in California" in Race, Class and Gender in American Literature and Culture, Spring 2010. “Toni Morrison’s Beloved: a Study in Haunting and Mothering” Lecturer in Introduction to American Studies, USC, Fall 2008. “Negotiating Gender, Labor and Space in Bread And Roses.” Lecturer in Social Issues In Gender, USC, Spring 2008. “Literary Textual Analysis as Sociological Methodology.” Lecturer in Sociological Methodology, Grinnell College, Spring 2008. “Domestic Containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and The Cultural Politics of Relocation” Lecturer in Introduction to Sociology, Grinnell College, Spring 2008. “Esperanza’s Worldview: The House on Mango Street as a Center of Cosmopolitan Culture.” Lecturer in Cosmopolitan Cultures, USC, November 2007. “Lessons from the Intersexed: An Argument for Acceptance of Gender Variation.” Lecturer in Social Issues in Gender, USC, Spring 2007. “The Queerest of the Queer: Queer Texts and the Mixed Race Body.” Feminist Research Institute, Graduate Student Works in Progress. UNM, October 2003. "Celluloid Imperialism: US War Movies in the New Millennium." American Studies Colloquium: Postcolonial Theory and American Cinema. UNM, September 2002. “The Representation of Queer Indians in Contemporary Film.” Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Lesbian and Gays in Film, UNM. Fall 2003. “The Interactions of Feminist Theory and Disability Politics.” Guest Lecturer, Women in Contemporary Society, UNM. Spring 2003 and Fall 2003. “Postcolonial Theory and Third Wave Feminism.” Guest Lecturer in Third Wave Feminism, UNM. Spring 2003.

Teaching Experience Women Studies Program University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2002-2003 Contemporary Feminist Theory, 4 semesters U.S. Women of Color (designed new course, cross-listed in Chicano Studies, American Studies and Women Studies) Queer Theory/Queer Lives (designed new course, cross-listed in Sociology and American Studies)

2 Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2003 Introduction to Gender Studies

Teaching Assistant Experience Arts and Letters Department, University of Southern California, 2005, 2009, 2010 LA: The Fiction American Studies Department, University of Southern California, 2009, Peoples of Latin America American Studies Department, University of Southern California, 2008, Introduction to American Studies Gender Studies Program, University of Southern California, 2006, 2007, 2008 Social Issues in Gender Program of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2006 Race and Class in Los Angeles Program of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2007 Cosmopolitan Cultures

Selected Service Admissions Committee University of Southern California, 2008- 2009 Core-Chair Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference, University of Southern California, 2009 Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Forum, University of Southern California, 2006 Funding Coordinator, Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference University of Southern California, 2005-2006 Graduate Representative, Graduate Studies Committee University Of Southern California, 2005- 2006 Treasurer, Paseo American Studies and Ethnicity Graduate Student Association University of Southern California, 2006 Co-Chair, Paseo American Studies and Ethnicity Graduate Student Association University of Southern California, 2005 QFAQ Conference Organizing Committee University of Southern California, 2004 Co-Chair, Queer Caucus, American Studies Association, 2003- 2004 Core Organizer, Women of Color & Mixed Heritage/ Ethnicity/Race Conference University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2003- 2004

Affiliations American Studies Association Modern Language Association National Women Studies Association

References Professor Judith Halberstam Office: THH 407 University of Southern California Phone: (213) 821- 1169

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Professor John Carlos Rowe Office: THH 402E University of Southern California Phone: (213) 821- 5594 Email: [email protected]

Professor Jane Iwamura Office: ACB 130 University of Southern California Phone: (213) 821-2851 Email: [email protected]

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