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Evelyn Hu-DeHart Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnic Studies Brown University Box 1886 Brown University 150 Power Street, Providence, RI 02912 Email: [email protected] Phone: (401)863-7054 Fax: (401)863-7589 Education and Degrees Palo Alto, California public schools B.A., Stanford University, 1968, Political Science with Honors Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1976, History (Latin America and Caribbean) Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, 2003, University of Notre Dame (Honorary Degree) Honors, Awards, Fellowships and Grants Dinkelspiel Award, Stanford University, 1968 (to 1 male and 1 female graduate each year) Cap and Gown Women’s Leadership Society, Stanford University Fulbright Grant to Brazil, 1968 National Defense Education Act Graduate Fellowship (NDEA), 1969-1971 Ford Foreign Area Fellowship for doctoral dissertation research and write up, 1971-1973 Doherty Fellowship for dissertation research, 1971 (declined in favor of Ford) Washington University Summer Faculty Grant, summer 1977 Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Grant, 1981 Fulbright Faculty Research Award, Peru, 1983-1984 Kellogg National Leadership Fellow, 1984-1987 C.U.N.Y. Professional Staff congress Research Award, 1987-1988, 1988-1989 C.U.N.Y. Women’s Leadership Institute, 1987 IMPART grant, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1988-1989, 1989-1990 Ibero-Latin America Center Research Grant, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1989-1990 Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1990-1991, 1991-1992 Dean’s Social Science Writing Award, 1990 (Best Scholarly article). Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder Committee on Scholarly Communication with China, Travel Grant, 1993 Rockefeller Residency Fellowships in the Humanities (awarded to CSERA), $250,000 for three years (1992-1995) Honorary Degree, University of Notre Dame (2003) Keio University (Tokyo)-Brown University Faculty Exchange (2005) Diamond Honoree, Educational Leadership Foundation of the American College Personnel Association (2005) Distinguished Freeman Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University (2005-6) Brown-Keio University (Tokyo) Exchange Scholar (Summer 2006) Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance Grant, Institute for Non-Traditional Leadership (2005) Rhode Island Foundation, 150K grant for the Latino National Survey, New England Extension research project (2007) Karen T. Romer Award for Undergraduate Advising and Mentoring, Brown University (2009) Center for Latin American Studies, Brown University, Research Travel Grant (2010) Distinguished Alumni Scholar, Stanford University (2010) Board of Trustees, THE COLLEGE BOARD (2005-2010) 2 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies (2010) Tsinghua-Santander Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2011-12. Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2012. Brown-in-Translation Award, Office of International Affairs, Brown University, 2012. Organization of American Historians (OAS) Distinguished Lecturer, 2014. 2014 Robert Perry Mentorship Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies. Brown University Research Seed Grant 2014, 30K President’s Commission on Slavery and the University, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (2014 to 2018) 2018-19 American Council on Learned Scholars (ACLS) Senior Research Award: Centennial Fellow in the Dynamics of Place. Academic Positions Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnic Studies, Department of American Studies, Brown University, 2013-present. Visiting Professor, Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA), Barcelona, Spain, January to December, 2018 Affiliated Faculty, Department of East Asian Studies, Brown University, 2018 Visiting Professor, History Programme, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, July 2015 to June 2016 Director of Ethnic Studies, Department of American Studies, Brown University 2013-14. Director, Consortium of Advanced Studies Abroad in Cuba (CASA Cuba), Havana, Cuba, 2014 to 2015. Professor of History and Ethnic Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University, 2002-2013. Freeman Visiting Professor, Asian American/American Studies, Wesleyan University (CT), 2005-06. Santander Visiting Scholar, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept 2011 to February 2012. Visiting Scholar, Asian America Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Spring semester, 2012. Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1996-2002 Director, Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America (CSERA), University of Colorado at Boulder, 1988-2002 Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, New York University, 1986 Associate Professor, Lehman College and Ph.D. Program in History, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y., New York, New York, 1985-1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Fall 1979 Instructor to Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of History, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1973-1985 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1972-1973, part-time) El Colegio de México, Mexico City (1971-1972, part-time) 3 Publications Books: Missionaries, Miners, and Indians: History of Spanish Contact with the Yaqui Indians of Northwestern New Spain, 1533-1830. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1981. (Electronic edition 2017) Yaqui Resistance and Survival: Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1910. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. Adaptación y Resistencia en el Yaquimi: Los Yaquis Durante la Colonia. Colección de Historia de los pueblos indígenas de México, dirigida por Teresa Rojas Rabiela y Mario Humberto Ruz. Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS) (Instituto Nacional Indigenista), 1995. Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization (Editor). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. (Electronic edition, 2010) Asians in the Americas: Transculturations and Power (co-editor with Lane Hirabayashi). Special issue of Amerasia Journal 28:2 (2002) Voluntary Associations in the Chinese Diaspora (co-edited with Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce). Hong Kong: Hong Kong U. Press, 2006 Asia and Latin America (Editor). Special Issue of REVIEW: Literature and Arts of the Americas 72 (Spring 2006) Afro-Asia. (Guest Editor with Kathleen López). Special issue of Afro-Hispanic Review 27: 1 (Spring 2008). Towards a Third Literature: Chinese Writing in the Americas. Guest editor with Russell Leong (UCLA) and Wang Ning (Tsinghua). Special issue of Amerasia Journal, Vol. 38, no. 2, 2012. Latino Politics en Ciencia Política: The Search for Latino Identity and Racial Consciousness. Co-edited with Tony Affigne (Providence College) and Marion Orr (Brown). New York: New York University Press, 2014. 何以为家——全球化时期华人的流散与播迁 (He yi wei jia: Quanqiuhua shiqi huaren de liusan yu boqian). (Finding Home in the Chinese Diaspora During the Age of Globalization.) Zhejiang U. Press, 2015. Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1910. New Edition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016. Articles and Book Chapters: "Development and Rural Rebellion: Pacification of the Yaquis in the Late Porfiriato." Hispanic American Historical Review, 54:1 (1974): pp. 72-93. Reprinted in Carlos B. Gil, ed., The Age of Porfirio Diaz. Selected Readings (University of New Mexico Press, 1977). "Las rebeliones Yaquis de 1740 y de Banderas." Memoria. IV Simposio de Historia de Sonora (Hermosillo, Sonora, México, 1979). "Immigrants to a Developing Society. The Chinese in Northern Mexico, 1975-1932." Journal of Arizona History, 21 (Autumn 1980): pp. 49-85. Translated into Chinese, published in Overseas Chinese History Studies, #4 (1988), pp.43-50 (Beijing, China). "La relación entre la fuerza y la política en la pacificación de los Yaquis." Memoria. V Simposio de Historia de Sonora (Hermosillo, Sonora, México, 1980). "La deportación de los Yaquis durante la última década del Porfiriato." Memoria. VI Simposio de Historia de Sonora (Hermosillo, Sonora, México, 1980). "Racism and Anti-Chinese Persecution in Mexico." Amerasia Journal, 9:2 (1982), pp. 1-28. "Sonora During the Porfiriato," in W. McNellie and T. Benjamin, eds., Mexican History During the Porfiriato: Regional Perspectives (University of New Mexico Press, 1984). 4 "Women and Minority Academics in the United States: Academic Freedom or Academic Repression in the 1980's," in Craig Kaplan and Ellen Schrecker, eds., Regulating the Intellectuals (Praeger, 1984). "The Chinese of Baja California Norte, 1910-1934," in Baja California and the North Mexican Frontier, Proceedings of the Pacific coast Council on Latin American Studies, vol. 12, 1985-86 (San Diego State University Press). "La Comunidad China en el Desarrollo de Sonora," Historia General de Sonora IV: Sonora Moderno: 1880-1929. (Hermosillo, México, 1985). "Chinos comerciantes en el Perú: un bosquejo histórico (1869-1924)," Primer Seminario Sobre Poblaciones Inmigrantes II (Consejo Nacional de Ciencias y Tecnología, Lima, Perú, 1988). "Peasant Revolts in Mexico: The Yaquis of Sonora, 16 to 20 c.," in Friedrich Katz, ed., Riot, Rebellion, and Revolt: Rural Social Conflict in Mexico (Princeton University Press, 1988). Spanish translation published by Ediciones ERA, México, D. F., 1990, as Revuelta, rebelion y revolución: La lucha rural en Mexico del siglo XVI al siglo XX, (2 volumes).
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