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RESUME Sue Fawn Chung Professor Home address: Department of History 1105 Vegas Valley Drive University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada 89109-1536 4505 S. Maryland Parkway 702:735-8965 Las Vegas, Nevada 89154-5020 702:895-3351 (o), 895-3349 (secretary) FAX: 702: 895-1782 E-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 Ph.D. degree in History awarded 1975. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Master's degree awarded June 1967. University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095Bachelor's degree with highest honors awarded June 1965. TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of History with the Art Department (part-time): Assistant Professor, 1975-1979;Associate Professor, 1979-2011; Professor, 2011-present. Assistant to Chair, Asian Studies Committee, 1976-2005. Director of International Programs, January 1985-June 1987. Chairperson, Department of History, 1994-1996, University of Nevada Study Abroad Program, Spring 2010 to the University of Shanghai, Yanchang campus; Chairperson, Asian Studies, 2011-present.. University of California Berkeley, Department of History: Teaching Assistant, 1971-1973. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Department of History: Lecturer, 1971-1973. Harvard University, Cambridge, Department of East Asian Languages: Teaching Fellow, 1967. BOOK PUBLICATIONS In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2011. The Chinese in Nevada, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Press in their “Images of America”Series, 2011. A Brief Overview of the Contributions of Chinese Americans in the Building of the United States, a peer-reviewed e-book on nps.gov/history as of June 2012. Chinese American Death Rituals: Respecting the Ancestors ed. Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars, including "Introduction" by Sue Fawn Chung and Priscilla Wegars (1-18), “Venerate These Bones: Chinese American Burial Practices as Seen in Carlin, Nevada,” co-authored with Fred Frampton and Terry Murphy (107-146), and “Respecting Ancestors in Hawai’i,” co-authored with Reiko Neizman (175- 194), Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, 2005. Reviews: Jeffrey L. Durbin, Review, CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 6:1 (Winter 2009), 74- 75; Chan Yuk Wah, Review, Journal of Chinese Overseas 3:2 (November 2007), 269-271; Jessica Zimmer, “Chinese American Death Rituals,” Historical Archaeology 42:2 (2007), 167-168; Kelly J. Dixon, “Chinese American Death Rituals,” Pacific Historical Review 76:2 (May 2007), 302-303, Andrea Louie, “A Review of Chinese American Death Rituals,” Death Studies 30:10 (December 2006), 976-979; and others. RECENT ARTICLE AND CHAPTER PUBLICATIONS “Pioneering Chinese American Architects,” Preservation Magazine (2011), www.preservationnation.org/.../pioneering-chinese-american.html “Bureau of Immigration,” and other pieces in Frobidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History, Alexandria, VA: Capitol Net, 2012, Chapter 9.17. “The Zhigongtang in the United States, 1860-1949,” in Empire, Nation, and Beyond: Chinese History in Late Imperial and Modern Times, ed. Wen-hsin Yeh and Joseph Eshrick, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 231-249. “Tracing the History of Chinese American Families,” Historical Methods 39:4 (2006), 191-195. “The Chinese,” in The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces, ed.Thomas Wright and Jerry Simich, (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2005), 98-122. 1 “The Anti-Chinese Movement in Tonopah, Nevada,” in Chinese America: History and Perspectives 2003, (January 2003), 35-45. (Included in a book publication by Greenwood Press in 2008) “The Chinese and Green Gold: Lumbering in the Sierras,” Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest (2003), 31 page article online at www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm9_026547.pdf. (Not referred.) “The Zhigongtang and Chinese American Funerary Rituals,” in The Chinese in America: From Gold Mountain to the New Millennium, ed. Susie Cassel, (Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2002), 217-238. “Between Two Worlds: Ah Cum Kee (1876-1929) and Loy Lee Ford (1882-1921),” in Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives: A History of Women in America, ed. Kriste Lindenmeyer, (Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2000), 179-195. “Fighting for Their American Rights: A History of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance,” in Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era, eds. K. Scott Wong and Sucheng Chan, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998), 95-126. "Their Changing World: Chinese Women of the Comstock," in Women on the Comstock: The Making of a Mining Community, eds. Ronald James and C. Elizabeth Raymond, (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1997), 203-228. “Savouring History: The Story of Missy Wah and the Nevada Frontier,” in Nevada: Readings and Perspectives, eds. Michael S. Green and Gary E. Elliott, (Reno: Nevada Historical Society, 1997), 252-256. “Destination: Nevada, the Silver Mountain” in Origins and Destinations: 1992 Conference on Chinese Americans, (Los Angeles, CA: Chinese Historical Society of Southern California and UCLA Asian American Studies, 1994), 111-139. “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad” (on the Chinese and the Central Pacific Railroad), The World and I (August, 1991), 420-431. "Gue Gim Wah: A Pioneering Chinese American Woman of Nevada," in History and Humanities, ed. Francis X. Hartigan, (Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1989), 45-79. "The Chinese American Citizens Alliance: An Effort in Assimilation, 1895-1965," in Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1988 ed. Chinese Historical Society of America, (San Francisco, CA: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1988), 30-57. This article has been translated into Chinese and appeared in a 1989 journal published by the Jinan University Overseas Chinese History Research Institute (Jinan daxue huajiao yanjiu so). "The Chinese Experience in Nevada: Success Despite Discrimination," Nevada Public Affairs Review No. 2 (1987), 43-51. Co-editor with Elmer Rusco, Professor of Political Science, University of Nevada, Reno, a special issue on "Ethnicity and Race in Nevada," Nevada Public Affairs Review No. 2 (1987). "A Brief History of the Chinese in Nevada," in The Chinese American Experience ed. Ginny Lim, Him Mark Lai, et al., (San Francisco, CA: The Chinese Historical Society of America and the Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, 1984), 188-194. "The Much Maligned Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi," Modern Asian Studies 13:2 (1979), 177-196. "In the Autumn of Ch'ien Hsuan's Life: A Poet-Painter-Recluse of the Early Yuan Dynasty," Halcyon 1 (Spring 1979), 17-30. "From Fu Manchu, Evil Genius, to James Lee Wong, Popular Hero: The Chinese in American Popular Magazines, 1920-1940," Journal of Popular Culture 10:3 (Winter 1976), 534-547. "The Image of the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi," in Reform in Nineteenth Century China eds. Paul Cohen and John Schrecker, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976), 101-110. IN PROGRESS Book and article manuscripts: 1) “Branching Out: The Chinese in the Woods in the West,” book manuscript almost completed. 2) “Chinese American Architects in the Modernist Movement in Los Angeles, California,” an article completed in December 2011 for presentation as a conference paper in February 2012. 3) “The Chinese in Carson City, Nevada and the Bureau of Immigration (present Immigration and Naturalization Service), 1890s to 1920” – an article. 4) “A History of the Chinese in Nevada” – book draft completed, revisions needed. 5) “The Special 1905 Chinese Census by the Bureau of Immigration” – article, draft completed but revisions needed. RECENT BOOK REVIEWS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA, ETC. ENTRIES Essay in encyclopedia, “Asian American Religions: The Bok Kai Daoist Temple in Marysville, CA,” 2012. 2 Contributor, Martin Gold’s book, Forbidden Citizens, Alexandria, VA: Capitolnet, 2012. Book manuscript reviewer for authors as requested. Book manuscript reviewer for University of Nevada Press, 2011, Capitol Press, 2011, Rutgers University Press, 2001 & 2004, University of Illinois Press 1993-present, University of Washington Press, 1993, HarperCollins, 1993- 1997, Macmillan Press, University of British Columbia Press, Rowman Littlefield Press, Hong Kong University Press, and numerous others. Review of textbooks on Modern China (2012), modern East Asia, on China, on Asia in general. Review of articles for several academic journals, including Oregon Historical Society (2009), Nevada Historical Society (2009, 2011), Journal of Ethnic History, Journal of Transnational American Studies, Journal of Urban History (various years; latest in 2011), California History (2012, 2011),.and Journal of American Studies (2012). Abstractor for America: History and Life (online) of Chinese America and Journal of Asian American Studies for ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara, 1994-2009. Given 10-year award in 2004. Board of Editors, Asian American History and Culture, M.E. Sharpe, 2010. Endorsements of books, most recently Fleur Yano and Saralyn Daly, eds., Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009) and Barbara Butcher, Remembrance, Emulation, Imagination: The Chinese and Chinese American Catholic Ancestor Memorial Service (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and others. Cited in Lisa See, Shanghai Girls (2009), Wendy Jorae, The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up (2009), and Bonnie Tsui, American Chinatowns (2009) and others in the acknowledgements.