MADELINE Y. HSU CURRICULUM VITAE Summer 2015

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, Department of History. University of Texas at Austin, 2006-present. Director, Center for Asian American Studies. University of Texas at Austin, 2006-2014 Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, 1996-2006 (promoted with tenure 2001).

EDUCATION Ph.D. History, Yale University M.A. History, Yale University B.A. History, Pomona College, cum laude

PUBLICATIONS Books Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943. Stanford University Press, 2000. Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award, 2002. Co-edited with Sucheng Chan. Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture. Temple University Press, 2008. Editor. Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai. University of Illinois Press, 2010. Honorable Mention, 2012 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became a Model Minority. Princeton University Press, 2015.

Works in Progress “Pacific America: Empires, Migrations, Exchanges.” Co-edited with Lon Kurashige and Yujin Yaguchi. Under contract with the University of Hawaii Press. Final manuscript due August 2015. “Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction.” Under contract with Oxford University Press. Review manuscript submitted May 2015. “The 51st State: Taiwan’s Neocolonial Relationship with the United States.” Book project in progress.

Peer-reviewed journal articles With Ellen D. Wu, "Smoke and Mirrors: Conditional Inclusion, Model Minorities, and the Pre 1965 Dismantling of Asian Exclusion,” Forum on the State and Future of the Immigration and Ethnic History Field, Commemorative Issue: Perspectives on the State and Future of the Immigration and Ethnic History Field, Journal of American Ethnic History 34: 4 (Summer 2015), 43-65. “Refugees as Resources in Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI) Programs to Support Nationalist Taiwan, 1952-1956,” for “Global Displacements and Emplacement: The Forced Exile and Resettlement Experiences of Ethnic Chinese Refugees,” a special issue of the Journal of Chinese Overseas 10:2 (2014), 137-164. “Chinese and American Collaborations through Educational Exchange during the Era of Exclusion, 1872-1955,” Pacific Historical Review, co-editor of special issue titled “Conversations on Transpacific History,” 83:2 (May 2014): 314-332. “The Disappearance of America’s Cold War Chinese Refugees.” Journal of American Ethnic History, 31:4 (Summer, 2012): 12-33. “Transnationalism and Asian American Studies as a Migration-Centered Project.” Journal of Asian American Studies, 11:2 (June 2008), 185-197. “The Recurring Problem of Chinese Ethnicity in World Migration: Comments on Dirk Hoerder’s Cultures in Contact.” International Review of Social History 49:03 (December 2004): 494-499. “Qiaokan and the Transnational Community of Taishan County, 1882-1943.” “Transnational Dimensions of the Chinese Press, 1850-1949," a special issue of the China Review edited by Bryna Goodman and Arif Dirlik. 4:1 (Spring 2004): 123-144. “Unwrapping Orientalist Constraints: Restoring Homosocial Normativity to Chinese American History.” Amerasia Journal 29:2 (Summer 2003): 231-253. “Migration and Native Place: Qiaokan and the Imagined Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1893-1993.” Journal of Asian Studies 59:2 (May 2000): 307-331.

Book Chapters and Other Articles “Transnationalism and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese State: National Rejuvenation and the Ascendance of Foreign-Educated Elites (Liuxuesheng),” book chapter solicited for “A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and their Homeland Connections” edited by Nancy Green and Roger Waldinger. Under revision. “Between Enemies and Friends: Him Mark Lai and the Politics of Chinese America.” Introduction to Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai. University of Illinois Press, 2010. “Befriending the Yellow Peril: Chinese Students and Intellectuals and the Liberalization of U.S. Immigration Laws, 1950-65.” Journal of American East Asian Relations 16:3 (November 2009): 139-162. “Domesticating the Yellow Peril: Students and Changing Perceptions of the Indigestibility of Chinese Immigrants, 1905-1950.” In Vanessa Kuennemann and Ruth Mayer (eds.), Transpacific Interactions: The United States and China, 1880-1950. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 105-122. “From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era.” In Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Hsu. Temple University Press, 2008. 173-193. “Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882-1943.” In Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, David Strand, and Sherman Cochran. Center for East Asian Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 2007. Pp. 219-246. “Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place, 1849-1949.” In Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources, and Ideas between China and America during the Exclusion Era, edited by Sucheng Chan. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006. 22-33. “The Life and Times of Him Mark Lai,” in Him Mark Lai, Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004. Xiii-xx. “California Dreaming: Migration and Dependency.” Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2002): 9-31. “Between Nation and Native Place: Migration and the Changing Identity of Chinese Overseas, 1909-1937.” Proceedings II: The 4th International Chinese Overseas Conference. Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica (2001), 289-323. “Gold Mountain Dreams and Paper Son Schemes: Chinese Immigration Under Exclusion.” Chinese America: History and Perspectives (1997). 46-60.

Encyclopedia Entries “The Cold War.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American History edited by David Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma. In press. “Asian Americans.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History. Edited by Lynn Dumenil and Paul Boyer (Oxford University Press, 2012). “Asian Immigration.” The Oxford Handbook of the History American Immigration and Ethnicity, edited by Ronald Bayor. In press. “Chinese Diaspora.” In Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, eds., Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009). “Chinese Overseas.” In David Levinson and Karen Christensen, et al., eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002. Selected for Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association Best Reference list.

Book and Film Reviews The Rise of Cantonese Opera, by Wing Chung Ng. Hong Kong University Press, 2015. Frontiers of History in China, under preparation. Abrazando el Espíritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border, by Ana Elizabeth Rosas. University of California Press, 2014. American Historical Review, under preparation. Fateful Ties: A History of America’s Preoccupation with China. By Gordon H. Chang. Harvard University Press, 2015. New Global Studies, under preparation. Chinese and Americans: A Shared History. By Guoqi Xu. Harvard University Press, 2014. Pacific Affairs, June 2016 (Volume 89, No. 2). The Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894-1972. By Eric C. Han. Harvard East Asian Monographs, 2014. Forthcoming, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 75.2 (December 2015). My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman’s Journey from Prison to Power. By Lu Hsiu-lien and Ashley Esarey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014. H-Asia. October, 2014. Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South. Edited by Khyati Y. Joshi and Jigna Desai. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. History: Reviews of New Books. In press. Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943, by Emma Jinhua Teng. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Pacific Affairs, December 2014 (Volume 87, No. 4), 845-847. Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong, by Elizabeth Sinn. Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 2013. China Information 27:3 (November 2013). Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands, by Kornel Chang. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Western Historical Quarterly 43:2 (Summer 2013), 198. Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, A Hong Kong Case, by Nan M. Sussman. Hong Kong University Press, 2011. In Journal of Chinese Overseas 8:1 (2012): 123-125. Stepping Forth into the World: The Chinese Educational Mission to the United States, 1872-81, by Edward J.M. Rhoads. Hong Kong University Press, 2011. In Journal of Asian American Studies 15:2 (June 2012): 228-230. Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South, by Leslie Bow. New York University Press, 2010. In Journal of American History 97:4 (March 2011): 1142-1143. Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture, by Jane Iwamura. Oxford University Press, 2010. In Journal of Asian American Studies 13.3 (October 2010): 399-401. The Diplomacy of Nationalism: The Six Companies and China's Policy Toward Exclusion, by Yucheng Qin. University of Hawai’i Press, 2009. In Pacific Historical Review 80:2 (May 2011): 306-307. Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East, by Da Zheng. Rutgers University Press, 2010. In Reviews in American History, 39:4 (December 2011). 689-694. Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times, by Philip Kuhn. Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. Journal of American Ethnic History 29:2 (Winter 2010): 118-119. Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, by Adam McKeown. Columbia University Press, 2008. American Historical Review 114:4 (October 2009): 1039-1040. Chinese Transnational Networks, edited by Tan Chee Beng. Routledge, 2007. Pacific Affairs, 81: 2 (August 2008). “Golden Venture” produced and directed by Peter Cohn. Labor, 5:1 (Spring 2008). Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation by Moon-ho Jung. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Atlantic Studies: Literary, Cultural and Historical Perspectives 5, no. 1 (2008). The Global Silicon Valley Home: Lives and Landscapes within Taiwanese American Trans-Pacific Culture by Shenglin Chang. Stanford University Press, 2006. International History Review, XXVIII no. 4 (December 2006). Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae Ngai. Princeton University Press, 2004. Social History, 31:2 (May 2006): 229-31. Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe for International Migration Review by Frank Pieke. Stanford University Press, 2004. International Migration Review, 39:3 (Fall 2005). Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Wong. University of Washington Press, 2004. American Historical Review, 110:2 (June 2005). At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 by Erika G. Lee. University of North Carolina Press, 2003. International Historical Review, 26:2 (June 2004). Chinese American Literature since the 1850s by Xiao-huang Yin. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter (2003). The Chinese in America: A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millenium edited by Susie Lan Cassel. Journal of Ethnic and Immigration History, 23:1 (Fall 2003). Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy. Duke University Press, 2003. American Historical Review, 108:3 (October 2003). Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American: by Shehong Chen. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pacific Historical Review, 72:2 (May 2003). “A Truthful Impression of the Country”: British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 by Nicholas Clifford. Journal of American History, (December 2002): 1061-62. Paper Son: One Man’s Story by Tung Pok Chin with Winifred C. Chin. Pacific Historical Review, (February 2002). Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, Hawaii, 1900-1936 by Adam McKeown. Journal of Asian Studies 61:1 (February 2002). International Migration: Chinese Perspectives, edited by Frank N. Pieke and Hein Mallee. Journal of Asian Studies 60:3 (November 2001). Chinese San Francisco, 1850-1942: A Trans-Pacific Community by Yong Chen. California History, Summer/Fall (2001).

OTHER WRITINGS “How Did Asians, Long Reviled, Become America’s Model Immigrants?” History News Network, April 14, 2015, http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159128#sthash.2CeCMj4L.dpufHNN “U.S. Immigration Laws and the Making of Model Minorities and Illegal Aliens.” Border Criminologies: Foreigners in a Carceral Age, edited by Yolanda Vazquez, http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/us-immigration-laws/ April 7, 2015. Various, Not Even Past: “Chan is Missing (1982),” Not Even Past, December 15, 2010 https://notevenpast.org/chan-missing-1982/; “Family Outing in Austin, Texas,” May 11, 2011, https://notevenpast.org/family-outing-austin-texas/; “Domesticating Ethnic Foods and Becoming American,” February 10, 2014, https://notevenpast.org/domesticating- ethnic-foods-and-becoming-american-test/; “History Museums: Race, Eugenics, and Immigration in New York History Museums,” April 2, 2015, https://notevenpast.org/race- eugenics-and-immigration-in-new-york-history-museums/.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS Invited lecture series presenter, “Migration,” Ecole des Hautes Etudes Social Sciences. Invited by Nancy Green. Paris, France. January 2016. Invited speaker, “Chinese Diaspora Studies in the Age of Global Modernity,” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Singapore. 19-20 November 2015. Invited speaker, “Immigration and International Relations,” “United Foreign Policy since 1898,” teacher training workshop, Gilder Lehman Institute of American History, June 21–27, 2015. Invited presenter, International Conference on Trans-Migration and Everyday Life organized by the Guangdong Qiangxiang Research Center of Wuyi University, Institute of Overseas Chinese History in Beijing, China, Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies of the University of Queensland, and the Asian Studies Program of Bridgewater State University. Jiangmen City, Guangdong, December 11-12, 2014. Invited speaker, “The Good Immigrants and the 1965 Immigration Act,” 20th Annual Teaching of History Conference (TCON), University of North Texas. Denton, TX, Saturday, September 26, 2015. Invited participant, “Refashioning Multi-Ethnic & Race Studies” workshop, Princeton University, March 6-7, 2015. Invited presenter, International Conference on Trans-Migration and Everyday Life organized by the Guangdong Qiangxiang Research Center of Wuyi University, Institute of Overseas Chinese History in Beijing, China, Research Cluster for Chinese Entrepreneurial Studies of the University of Queensland, and the Asian Studies Program of Bridgewater State University. Jiangmen City, Guangdong, December 11-12, 2014. Invited workshop presenter, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, NEH funded teacher’s workshop “Asian Pacific American Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest: Transforming the Nation,” Seattle, WA. July 14-18, July 28-Aug. 1, 2014. Invited moderator and panelist, “Immigration and Ethnic History: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives,” Roundtable celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 10-13, 2014. Invited speaker, “How Chinese Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Intellectuals, Refugees, and Immigration Selection, 1908-1962,” Atheneum, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, November 4, 2013. Invited speaker, “Immigration Selection and the Strategic Production of Chinese Immigrants as Model Minorities, 1948-1965,” Forum on Migration, Barnard College, Columbia University, September 26, 2013. Invited workshop participant, “Brain Drain,” in “A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and their Homeland Connections.” UCLA, April 26-27, 2013. Invited keynote speaker, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Regional Committee, Houston TX, February 23, 2013. Invited presenter, “Refugees as Resources in Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI) Programs to Support Nationalist Taiwan, 1952-1956,” for “Global Displacements and Emplacement: The Forced Exile and Resettlement Experiences of Ethnic Chinese Refugees,” National University of Singapore, Oct. 17-18, 2012. Funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada. Invited speaker, “Brain Drain or Exchange?: International Students and Symbiotic Relations between Taiwan and the United States, 1950-1965,” University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, September 12, 2011. Invited speaker, “Whose Loss and Whose Gain?: The Contradictory Politics of Brain Drains.” Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College, Claremont CA, April 12, 2011. Invited speaker, “Turning the Yellow Peril into the Model Minority: The Legal Terrain of Brain Drains.” Boston University, Feb. 7, 2011. Roundtable participant, “Roundtable Discussion/Response.” “Pacific Spaces: Comparisons and Connections across the Pacific Ocean in Early Modern and Modern Times,” at the Huntington Library, organized by R. Bin Wong (UCLA) and David Igler (UCI), 5-6 November 2010. Invited Presenter, “Immigration and Cold War Alliances: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARCI) and U.S. State Department Outreach in Asia.” “Chinese American Transnationalism in New England,” Hong Kong America Center, University of Hong Kong, June 9-11, 2010. Invited speaker. “From Yellow Peril to Model Minority: Shifting Discourses of Chinese Immigration during the Cold War.” Pacific Basin Institute, Pomona College, Nov. 13, 2009. Invited speaker. NEH Summer Institute on American History. Library of Congress, Washington D.C., July 6-10, 2009. Organized by the National History Center, the American Historical Association, Library of Congress, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and the Community College Humanities Association. Invited presenter. “Befriending the Yellow Peril: Chinese Students and Intellectuals and the Liberalization of U.S. Immigration Laws, 1950-1965.” “China and Latin America in the Global Age,” 17-18 March 2009, Peking University, Beijing, PRC. Invited presenter, “Chinese Travelers in the Second Millenium: A Sino-centric View of Pacific Migrations.” In “Connecting Atlantic, Indian Ocean, China Seas, and Pacific Migrations.” German Historical Institute, Washington D.C. Dec. 6-8, 2007. Invited presenter. Workshop on “Migration and Taiwanese Identity.” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 9, 2007. Invited speaker. “Eroding the Edges of Exclusion: Chinese Students and Intellectuals in the United States, 1905-1945.” Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Taiwan University, June 6, 2007. Invited speaker, “Asian Texas: Institutionalizing Asian American Studies at UT Austin.” Center for Asian American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 27 April 2007. Invited presenter, “Transnationalism and Asian American Studies as a Migration-Centered Project.” Inter-Disciplining Asia-Pacific-America: A Symposium on Knowledge, Politics, and the University” Conference at UC Santa Cruz, 17 February 2006. Invited panelist. Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University. Fall Symposium on "The Pacific World: When East Became West." 23-24 September 2005. Invited workshop presenter. “Asian Americas: Trans-Pacific and Transnational Perspectives.” Stanford Humanities Center's Asian Americas Workshop. Dec. 1, 2004. Keynote speaker. “International Conference on Quong Tart and His Times, 1850 to 1903.” The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, 1-4 July 2004. Workshop leader. “Second Summer Institute on International Migration,” UCLA June 21-26, 2004. Sponsored jointly by the UCLA Department of Sociology and International Institute in collaboration with the International Migration Program of the Social Science Research Council Invited panelist, “Roundtable on Dirk Hoerder's Cultures in Contact.” Social Science Historians Association, Baltimore, November 13-15, 2003. Invited speaker. “Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882-1943.” “Cities in Motion” Conference. University of California, Berkeley. November 15-17, 2002. Invited speaker. “Qiaokan and the Transnational Community of Taishan County, Guangdong, 1882-1943.” "Transnational Dimensions of the Chinese Press, 1850-1949," University of Oregon, Portland, October 25-26, 2002. Workshop presenter. "Transnational Labor and Rethinking Class Analysis." Conference on "Reconceptualizing Asian Pacific American History" organized by the Asian Pacific American Historians Collective. Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Saturday, May 18, 2001. Funded by a Ford Foundation grant. Invited speaker, Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943, book talk sponsored by the Chinese American Council of Sacramento. Friday, June 8, 2001. Invited speaker, “Closing Remarks.” “Where Is Home? Chinese in the Americas: Fifth Conference on the Chinese American Experience,” New York University, 12 October, 1997.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES Chair/commentator, “’Empire’ and ‘Nation’ in Contest: Chinese Migrants/Sojourners in the Globalizing World,” American Historical Association Annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 7-10, 2016. Roundtable participant, “Culling the Masses,” American Historical Association Annual meeting, Atlanta, GA, January 7-10, 2016. “Author Meets Critics: The Good Immigrants,” Social Science Historians Association annual conference, Baltimore, MD, November 12-15, 2015. Roundtable participant, “The Cold War and the Remaking of Chinese Migrations.” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas regional conference, Seoul National University, May 28-29, 2015. Chair/commentator, “Cold War Asian America: TransPacific Cultural Systems,” Association for Asian American Studies annual conference, Evanston, IL, April 22-16, 2015. Commentator, “Redefining the Boundaries of U.S. Refugee History,” Organization of American Historian Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, April 16 – 19, 2015. Presenter, “The Cold War Politicization of Chinese Migrations,” Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, IL March 26-29, 2015. Chair, “Negotiating Immigration Reform in an Age of Restriction,” American Historical Association annual meeting, New York, January 2–5, 2015. Presenter, “Ending the Shadow of Paper Sons: Confession, the Cold War, and the Racial Inclusion of Chinese,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association conference, Portland, OR, August 14-16, 2014. Chair and comment, “Asians in the Americas: Migratory Circuits, Sexuality and Gender,” roundtable, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association conference, Portland, OR, August 14-16, 2014. Panel organizer and presenter, “Exiled in America: The Student Side-door and Knowledge Workers in the Cold War, 1950-1965,” in “Beyond Cold War Binarisms: Literatures and Migrations of Exiled Chinese,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual conference, San Francisco, April 16-20, 2014. Panel organizer and presenter, “State of the Field: Race and the Cold War,” Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, April 10-13, 2014. Presenter, “Higher Education and American Courtship of Chinese Intellectuals during the Cold War,” Association for Asian Studies, March 27-30, 2014. Chair and commentator, “The Logic of the Cold War State: Asian/Americans, Government Surveillance, and Political Liberalism,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, November 20-13, 2013. Chair and panel organizer, “Culture in the Cold War: Discourses of Emerging Identity Formations,” Southwest Conference in Asian Studies, Oct. 17-18, 2013. Roundtable participant, “Beyond the Pew: A Critical Examination of the PEW Center Report On Asian Americans and the Continuing Significance of Race and Ethnicity in Public Discourse,” National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE®), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 28-June 1, 2013. Presenter and conference organizer. “Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. and the Political Uses of Humanitarian Relief, 1952-1962,” “TransPacific China in the Cold War,” UT Austin, April 18-19, 2013. Chair, “Navigating Dual Identities: Transnationalism in Early Twentieth-Century America,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, April 11-14, 2013. Discussant, “Cold War and Forced Migration in East Asia: State Policy, Humanitarian Discourse, and Lived Experiences.” Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 21-24, 2012. Presenter, “The Power of Token Quotas: Cold War Chinese Refugees and the Liberalization of US Immigration Law,” American Historical Association, New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. Presenter and group panel organizer, “Turning the Yellow Peril into Model Minorities: The Cold War and Targeted Admissions of Chinese Intellectuals and Refugees,” Pacific Coast Branch- American Historical Association, San Diego, CA, Aug. 3-5, 2012. Solicited for special issue of the Pacific Historical Review. Presenter and panel organizer, “Refugee Relief as Anti-Communist Critique: The 1962 Parole of Chinese,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Hartford CT, June 28-July 1, 2012. Presenter and panel organizer, “On Class and Cultural Capital: Students and Counter Narratives to Chinese Exclusion,” Organization of American Historians, Milwaukee, WI, April 19-22, 2012. Presenter and panel organizer, “The Symbiosis of ‘Brain Drains’: Intellectual Migrations as a Product of the Cold War Alliance between Taiwan and the United States, 1950-1965.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Washington, DC April 11-14, 2012. Presenter, “The Political Symbolism of Refugees: Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. and US State Department Outreach to Overseas Chinese,” ASSC Conference, University of Texas at Austin, January 27-28, 2012. Presenter and panel organizer, “Reconsidering Refugees as Immigrants: Exceptionalism in Ethnic History Narratives,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore MD, Oct. 20-23, 2011. Invited roundtable participant, “Future(s) of American Studies,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore MD, Oct. 20-23, 2011. Presenter, “Sourcing Brain Drain: Cold War Taiwan, Tunghai University, and the Logics of Dispersing Educated Elites, 1955-1975,” Southwest Conference on Asian Studies, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 3-4, 2011. Presenter and panel organizer, “The Disappearance of Cold War Chinese Refugees.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, May 18-22, 2011. Invited Speaker, “The Origins of Chop Suey: Chinese American Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Southwestern University Asian Pacific American History Month, April 18, 2011. Presenter, “The Politics of Brain Drains.” Association for Asian Studies Conference, Honolulu, HI March 31-April 3, 2011. Presenter and organizer, “Bringing ‘The Best Type of Chinese’ to America: Refugee Migration and U.S. Cold War Outreach in East Asia.” American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, TX Nov. 18-21, 2010. Chair and organizer, “Restoring the Local to the Transnational: Race, Ethnicity, and National Belonging in Multiple Frames,” a panel sponsored by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio TX, Nov. 18-21, 2010. Presenter, “America’s Selective Embrace of the World: Chinese Refugee Migration during the Cold War.” “Cold War Cultures” conference convened at the University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 1-2, 2010. Presenter, “Bringing 'The Best Type of Chinese' to America: Refugee Migration and U.S. Cold War Outreach in East Asia.” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, WI, June 24-26, 2010. Chair and organizer, “Honoring Him Mark Lai.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Austin TX, April 7-10, 2010. Presenter and panel organizer, “Chinese Migration to the United States: Exclusion and Its Exemptions.” San Diego, California, American Historical Association, Jan. 7-10, 2010. Chair, commentator, and panel organizer, “Shifting Discourses of Race during the Cold War Era.” San Diego, California, American Historical Association, Jan. 7-10, 2010. Chair and commentator, "Transnational Racial Formations of Asians in the Americas: Differential Processes and Relational Dimensions." Association for Asian Studies-Southwest Conference, UT Austin, 16-17 October 2009. Chair and commentator. “Migrating Identities, Negotiating Space.” “Locating Taiwan: Space, Culture and Society”15th Annual North American Taiwan Studies Conference. University of Texas at Austin, June 26-28, 2009. Presenter, “Chinese Migration to the United States: Exclusion and Its Exemptions.” “Insiders and Outsiders in Chinese History.” Conference in honor of Professor Jonathan Spence to celebrate his retirement. New Haven, CT, May 8-9, 2009. Presenter and panel organizer. “Importing Class: Taiwanese Student Migration and the Model Minority Stereotype.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 22-26, 2009. Presenter, “From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture.” Humanities Institute Free (Thinking) Lunch Series, UT Austin, 24 Feb. 2009. Invited Panelist. “State of the Field, APA History.” Organization of American Historians, Seattle, March 26-29, 2009. Moderator, “The Long Laugh: Asian-American Television and Comedy.” Flow Conference, Department of Radio-Television-Film, UT Austin, 9-11 October 2008. Presenter/panel organizer. “Reversing “Brain Drains”: Conceptualizing Elite Migration Flows.” In “Asian America in Transnational Perspective,” Association for Asian Studies, Southwest Conference. Sam Houston State University, Oct. 3-4, 2008. Presenter/panel organizer, “Rethinking “Brain Drains”: Migration between the United States and Taiwan, 1950-1995.” Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, April 16-20, 2008. Chair, “Chinese/American and Chineseness in the Construction of Mid-Century American Empire,” Organization of American Historians, New York, March 27-30, 2008. Invited panelist. “Domesticating the Yellow Peril: The Cold War, Taiwan’s ‘Brain Drain,’ and U.S. Immigration Law, 1950-65.” American Historical Association, January 3-6 2008. Comment. “Transnational Approaches to U.S. Immigration History.” American Historical Association, January 3-6 2008. Invited roundtable participant. “Faculty Roundtable.” In “The Idea of America: Dreams, Desires, and Disasters.” American Studies Department, 28 September, 2007. Presenter, “Transforming the Yellow Peril: Cold War Politics, Model Minorities, and the Immigration of Taiwanese Chinese, 1950-65.” “America’s Asia, Asia’s America,” Texas Tech University, 13 April, 2007. Presenter and panel organizer, “Eroding the Edges of Exclusion: Taiwanese Chinese Students and Intellectuals in the United States, 1925-1965.” Association for Asian American Studies, New York, April 4-8, 2007. Invited panelist, “State of the Field: Asian American Histories.” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, March 29-April 1, 2007 Presenter, “Befriending the Yellow Peril: Cold War Diplomacy and Taiwanese Chinese American Immigration, 1950-65.” Social Science Historian Association National Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2-5 November 2006. Chair, “Trans-nations in Transition: International Politics and Domestic Racialized Practices.” American Studies Association. Oakland, California 10-12 October 2006. Panelist, “Befriending the Yellow Peril: Cold War Diplomacy and Taiwanese Chinese American Immigration, 1950-65.” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Palo Alto, California, 4-6 August 2006. Workshop presenter, Summer Institute on “Migration and Immigration in American History” in the “TeachUsHistory” program at the University of Delaware, 10-14 July 2006. Guide, Point of View Gallery Talk “Travelers and Trade: East Asia at the Turn of the Century.” Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum, 7 May 2006. Panelist, “Inventing Impressions of Asia in the Early Twentieth Century.” Asian Pacific Heritage Month panel discussion. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Museum, 6 May 2006. Panelist and panel organizer, “Befriending the Yellow Peril: Cold War Diplomacy and Taiwanese Chinese American Immigration, 1950-65.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Atlanta, GA March 22-26, 2006. Panelist, “Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards : The Life of a Wartime Celebrity.” Social Science Historians Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, 10-12 November 2005. Moderator, “Chinese American Political Identities”—bilingual panel sponsored by the Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Foundation and the Poon Foundation. “Branching Out the Banyan Tree” National Chinese American Studies Conference, San Francisco 6-9 October 2005. “From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era, 1953-1972.” Chinese Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, Bendigo, Australia, 30 June-2 July, 2005. Chair/organizer, “Emerging from the Shadow of Empires: Taiwanese American Migration and Identity.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Los Angeles 20-24 April, 2005. Roundtable chair and co-organizer. "Institutionalization of the Model Minority Myth?: API Students in the CSU System." Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Los Angeles 20-24 April, 2005. Roundtable chair. "Comparative Chinatowns." Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Jose, California. March 31-April 3, 2005. Chair. "Foreign States, Diplomats, and Consuls Among Immigrants in Twentieth Century America." Annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Jose, California. March 31-April 3, 2005. “Mainstreaming the Exotic: Wing Nien Foods and the Americanization of Chinese Cuisine, 1942- 2004.” Social Science Historians Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Nov. 18-21, 2004. Chair/organizer. “Restoring Asians to American History: The Pioneering Scholarship of Him Mark Lai.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Boston, March 25-28, 2004. Discussant. "The Making of the Pacific World." Organization of American Historians (OAH), conference in Boston, March 25-28, 2004. Chair/discussant. “Chinese Communities in Transition.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Salt Lake City, April 24-27, 2002. Chair/discussant. “Chinese in Gold Country.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Salt Lake City, April 24-27, 2002. “Asian American Diversity in the Golden State.” Presentation for East Timorese diplomats jointly sponsored by the Asia Foundation and California Studies at San Francisco State University. 3 December 2001. “Between Nation and Native Place: Migration and the Changing Identity of Overseas Taishanese, 1909-1937.” Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas “New Frontiers for Chinese Overseas Research,” Taipei, Taiwan, April 26-28, 2001. “Nations and Migration: Comparative Approaches to Writing Chinese American History.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 28- April 1, 2001. Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China,1882-1943 book talk sponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of America and the Asian American Studies Department, College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Friday, March 16, 2001 Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China,1882-1943 book talk sponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and the UCLA Asians in the Americas Working Group. Los Angeles, California, 7 March 2001. “Upholding Half the Sky: The Influence of Modernization and Male Migration Upon Women’s Roles in Chinese Emigrant Communities, 1909-1949.” Women Studies Lecture Series, San Francisco State University, 15 November 2000. “Magazines as Marketplaces: Qiaokan and the Transnational Community of Chinese America, 1909-1949.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 2000. Chair/discussant. “Communities in Transition: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans During World War II.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Tucson, Arizona, May 2000. “Between Nation-States: Family, Community and National Belonging Among Exclusion-Era Chinese American Men.” “From Gold Mountain to the New Millenium,” the Sixth Chinese American Conference, San Diego, California, 9-11 July 1999. “What’s Special about Taishan, Guangdong?” Invited participant for the Duke-Harvard Workshop on International Migration, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 28-29 May 1999. “Gold Mountain Guests and their Qiaoxiang.” Invited participant for the Duke-Harvard Workshop on International Migration, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 21-22 May 1999. “Gold Mountain Guests and the Hong Kong Connection: Chinese American Frontier Life, 1849- 1900.” Invited speaker for the Colfax, California Sequiscentennial Chinese Celebration, 7 May 1999. “Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place, 1848- 1949.” Association for Asian Studies National Conference, Boston, March 1999. “Redefining the Meaning of ‘Home’: American Taishanese and their Transformation from Workers to Settlers Overseas, 1849-1989.” Panel organizer for “China in the Imaginings of American Chinese.” International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, 1998 International Conference on the Ethnic Chinese, Manila, Philippines, November 26-28. “Between Diaspora and Native Place: Evolutions in the Relationship between Taishan County and Overseas Taishanese, 1849-1989.” Panel organizer for “Searching for Home: China in the Imaginations of Diasporic Chinese.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, June 1998. “Elaborations on the Idea of ‘Home’: The Changing Relationship Between Taishan County and Overseas Taishanese, 1849-1995.” Panel sponsored by the China and Inner Asia Council, “Crossing Boundaries: Bridging Asian American Studies and Asian Studies, Part One— Crossing Oceans: How Chinese is the Chinese Diaspora?” Association for Asian Studies National Conference, Washington D.C., March 1998. “Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang and Networks of Kinship and Native Place, 1848-1949.” University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Annual Symposium on “Maritime China: Culture, Commerce, and Society,” March 13-14, 1998. “’Bachelor Fathers and Gold Mountain Families: Matrimony and Childbirth Among Chinese American Men.” Panel organizer for “Fluid Cultures and Flexible Networks: Transnational Perspectives on Chinese America.” “Where Is Home? Chinese in the Americas,” 5th Conference on the Chinese American Experience, New York University, 11 October 1997. “To Build an Empire: Chen Yixi, the Xinning Railroad, and TransPacific Models of Local Heroism.” Panel organizer for “Restoring Asia to Asian American Studies: Transnational Perspectives on Identity and Community.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, Seattle, Washington, 18 April 1997. “Understanding the Meaning of ‘Fate’: The Chinese Language and Chinese Culture in the United States.” Chinese Culture Foundation Symposium ‘96, San Francisco, California, 12 October 1996. “Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Exclusion.” Association for Asian American Studies National Conference, 1 June 1996. “Slipping Through the Golden Gate: Immigration Under Exclusion Using Networks of Kin and Native-Place.” Association for Asian American Studies Hawai'i/Pacific and Pacific Northwest Joint Regional Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1996. “Magazines as Marketplaces: Staying Taishanese in the Global Capitalist Economy, 1909-1941.” Third Annual California Chinese History Graduate Student Conference, University of California at Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, Berkeley, California, April 1994 “Conversations at the Crossroads: Asian and Asian American Studies.” Roundtable session at the Western Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, Claremont Colleges, California, October 1993.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS 2012 Community Leadership Award, Network of Asian American Organizations and Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, September 22, 2012. Honorable Mention, 2012 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award for edited volume, Chinese American Transnational Politics by Him Mark Lai (University of Illinois Press, 2010). RAISE Awareness Award, Asian/Asian American Faculty Staff Association, UT Austin, 2009. HNN Leading Young Historian, 2007 Dean’s Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin. Fall 2006 Wang Family Faculty Stipend, San Francisco State University, 2005-6 Vice-President’s Assigned Time, San Francisco State University, Spring 2005 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award 2002 Affirmative Action Faculty Development Program, San Francisco State University, Spring 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 Vice-President’s Summer Stipend, San Francisco State University, Summer 1997, 1998, 1999 Presidential Award for Professional Development of Probationary Faculty, San Francisco State University, Fall 1997 East Asian Studies Prize Fellowship, 1994-96 Exchange Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, 1995 Henry Hart Rice Advanced Research Fellowship, 1993-94 Bradley Foundation Fellowship in International and Diplomatic History, 1993-94 I.S.P./Smith Richardson Foundation Fellowship, 1993-94 Andrew W. Mellon Research/Travel Grant, 1993 Nominated for Prize Teaching Fellowship, Spring 1993 Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1992 University Fellowship, Yale University, 1989-93 Phi Beta Kappa, Pomona College, 1989 John H. Kemble Senior Thesis Award, Pomona College, 1989 Chan-Sophonpanich Award for outstanding graduating student of color, Pomona College, 1989

COURSES TAUGHT AAS301/HIS306N/AMS315 “Introduction to Asian American Studies” HIS364G/ AAS325 “Taiwan: Colonization, Migration, and Identity” HIS350L/AAS325 “Chinese in Diaspora” HIS340S/AAS 325 “Chinese in the United States” HIS317L/AAS312 “Introduction to Asian American History” AAS 200 “Asians in America” AAS 300 “Asians in California” AAS 310 “Chinese in America” AAS 697 “Proseminar in Asian American Studies” AAS 710 “Critical Approaches to Asian American Studies” AAS 810 “Asian American Immigration” HIS 290A “Overseas Chinese” HIS 573 “History of Modern China” HIS392/AAS382 “Race and Migration”

GRADUATE COMMITTEES Japheth Aquino (committee chair, MA in AAS at San Francisco State University, 2002), Jeannie Woo (committee chair, MA in AAS at San Francisco State University, 2003), Ririko Oshiro (committee member, MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004), Diana Pan (chair, MA in Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, 2006), Feng Zhang (external examiner, Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of British Columbia, 2007), Naoko Kato (committee member, Ph.D. in History, UT Austin, 2013), Anju Reejhsinghani (committee member, Ph.D. in history, UT Austin, 2009), Jason Chang (external committee member, Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, 2010), John Harney (committee member, Ph.D. in History, 2011), Benjamin Narvaez (committee member, Ph.D. in History, 2010), Euhwa Tran (committee chair, MA in Asian Studies, 2010), Yehonathan Brodski (comps and dissertation committee, Ph.D program in History, 2015), Kenyatta Dawson (dissertation committee, Ph.D. in education at Texas State University-San Marcos, 2013), Peter Hamilton (chair, dissertation committee, Ph.D. Program in History, 2010-2015), Helen Pho (dissertation committee, Ph.D. program in History, 2013-present), Leila Grace Pandy (MA report committee, CWGS, 2015), Sandy Chang (member, PhD comps committee, 2015).

UNDERGRADUATE COMMITTEES Kimberly Ninh (Plan II, senior thesis committee 2008-2009), Karl Jun (Plan II, senior thesis committee chair, 2009), Camilla Correa (Junior Fellows Program 2010), Kimberly Wong (Plan II senior thesis committee, 2010-11), Rachel Gounder (AAS Honors thesis, committee chair, 2011), Tania Wu (ENG Honors thesis, committee member, 2012), Lillian Wang (Plan II senior thesis committee, 2015), Shalaka Joshi (Plan II senior thesis, 2015-2016), Robina Ghosh (Plan II senior thesis committee, 2015-2016), Harrison Watson (advisor, History honors thesis, 2015-2016).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Vice-president, president-elect, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2015-2021. Sections Representative, Association for Asian American Studies, 2013-2016. Chair, nominations committee, Procedures and Policies review committee 2014-2015. Vice-President, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, 2014-2016. Journal of American Ethnic History, editorial board, 2014-present. Program committee member, Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, April 10-13 2014. Program committee member, Berkshire Women’s History Conference, Toronto May 2014. Program committee member, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Regional Committee, Houston TX, February 23, 2013. Invited speaker, "The Impact of Immigration throughout American History," Rockford, IL, Jan. 26, 2013. Teaching American History program, honorarium to be donated through Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Series. Executive board member, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2005-8, 2011-2014. Theodore Saloutos Book Award committee, Ethnic and Immigration History Society, 2003-2005, 2011-2013. Chair, 2004, 2012, 2013. Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award committee, 2005. Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer Series, 2007-2014. Journal of Overseas Chinese, editorial board, 2003-present. Co-chair, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference site committee. “Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century.” Austin, TX April, 2010. Program committee member, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2009-2010. Proposal reviewer, ACLS New Faculty Fellows initiative, fall 2009. Grant reviewer, National Humanities Center fellowships, fall 2009. Program committee member, Association for Asian American Studies National Conference— Honolulu, Hawaii, 2007-09. Editorial board, Pacific Historical Review, 2006-2008. Book review editor, Journal of American Ethnic History, 2005-2008. Co-chair, Association for Asian American Studies National Conference site committee. “Manifold Destinies: 35 Years of Arts, Advocacy, and the Academy,” San Francisco, 7-11 May, 2003. Executive board member, Association for Asian American Studies—Northern California representative, 2000-2003. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University. Winter Quarter 2000. Taught colloquium “History of Chinese Overseas.” Member, American Historical Association, Association of Asian Studies, Association of Asian American Studies, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, Organization of American Historians.

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES Invited presenter, Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, NEH funded teacher’s workshop “Asian Pacific American Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest: Transforming the Nation,” Seattle, WA, July 14-18, July 28-Aug. 1, 2014. Exhibit consultant, “Our American Journey: The Immigration/Migration Initiative,” National Museum of American History, January 2014. Exhibit consultant, “Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion,” New York Historical Society, fall 2013. Book manuscript reviewer, “The Origins of Migration between Mexico and the United States, 1905-1945,” by Laurencio Sanguino, Social Science and Policy Forum workshop, University of Pennsylvania, April 25, 2014. Advisory Committee, “Exclusion’s Historian.” Lowedown Productions, NEH grant application. 2010-2013 Grant evaluator, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong. Fall 2009. Gallery tour. “Travelers and Trade: East Asia at the Turn of the Century.” Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 7 May 2006. Invited presenter. "Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States." Segment of "Discovering America" course for San Francisco-based consular officials. 2 May 2005. Consultant, “The Gold Rush,” Yellow Jersey Films, 2004. Consultant, “Bill Moyers Presents: Becoming American - The Chinese Experience.” PBS, aired 2003. Consultant, "In America: The Chinese Story." International Channel, 2001. Aired August 2001. Consultant, Angel Island Immigration Station Community Partners Visioning Workshop, 19 June 1999. Advising Scholar. “Living Widows & Paper Sons” Multimedia Education Project sponsored by NEH. 1998. Manuscript reviewer: Stanford University Press, University of Washington Press, Harvard University Asia Center, Publications Office, Prentice Hall, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Hawaii Press, Arthur A. Levine Books (imprint of Scholastic), Brill USA. Article reviewer: American Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Sociological History, Journal of Urban History, Pacific Historical Review, Journal of American Ethnic History, Journal of Southern History, International Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of American History, Labor: Studies in Working- Class History in the Americas, Monde(s).Histoire.Espaces.Relations, History of Education Quarterly.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE Center for Asian American Studies Director, Center for Asian American Studies. 2006-2014. Advised AAS majors, minors, and honors students; coordinated curriculum including recruitment of TAs, AIs, and lecturers; represented CAAS with university committees and administrators such as College of Liberal Arts deans, DDCE, Asian American Faculty Staff Association, various APA student organizations, Office of the President; liaison to university departments and programs including English, History, Anthropology, Special Education, Sociology, Asian Studies, AAADS, RTF, Art and Art History, Warfield Center, CMAS, LLILAS, NAIS, Blanton Museum, CWGS; represented CAAS with national and regional Asian American organizations such as Association for Asian American Studies, National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Greater Austin Asian Chamber of Commerce, Network of Asian American Organizations, Austin History Center, Asian American Resource Center, Austin Asian Family Social Services Association, Asian Pacific American Historical Association, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; coordinated lecture and film series, faculty writing workshops; supervised office staff, assessment including TRACDAT, budget, programming, outreach, strategic planning, programmatic co-sponsorships; pursued development contacts; guest speaker for community and student groups The Salon at Georgetown, Asian American Resource Center, Camp Mabry, Department of Veterans Affairs, First Unitarian Universalist Church, LASA High School, Austin History Center, Southwestern University, Asian Pacific American Heritage Association, Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association. Member, Search Committee, Assistant Professor line in Asian American Studies and Special Education, 2013-2014. Hired North Cooc (Harvard, 2014). Program coordinator. Developed graduate portfolio in Asian American Studies, approved spring 2013 and implemented fall 2014. Endowment fundraiser, Honorable Martha J. Wong Scholarship, first allocated spring 2014. RAISE 2012 AAAFSA award committee, April 2012, 2013. Invited Speaker, “Education,” InspirAsian 2013, Asian American Culture Committee, University of Texas at Austin, April 5, 2013. Invited speaker, Bipartisan Policy Forum on Immigration, College Republicans and University Democrats, March 5, 2013. Diversity Committee member, College of Liberal Arts, 2011-2014. Roundtable participant, “Linsanity and Afro-Asian America: A Roundtable.” Warfield Center and Center for Asian American Studies, March 28, 2012. Roundtable presenter, “Across the Divide: A Roundtable Discussion of Contemporary Chinese Art,” Visual Arts Center, East Gallery, March 6, 2012. Coordinator, CAAS faculty writing workshop, 2011-2012. Member, Asian Pacific American Community Leadership Awards committee for DDCE, 2010- 2015. Co-chair, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference site committee. “Emergent Cartographies: Asian American Studies in the Twenty-first Century.” Austin, TX April, 2010. Member, College of Liberal Arts Domestic Partner Benefits committee, spring 2009-spring 2010. Member, Academic Affairs Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 2008-2009, Spring 2010-present. Search committee member, Program Coordinator, Multicultural Information Center, 2009. Presenter, “Faculty Women of Color respond to the Gender Equity Report,” 23rd annual Heman Sweatt Symposium on Civil Rights, April 16, 2009. Lead Organizer, “American Crossroads” conference with Center for Mexican American Studies, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Institute for Historical Studies, Harrington Fellows Program, April 2009. Search Committee chair, CAAS and American Studies, 2008-09. Search for specialist in critical race and legal studies. Hired A. Naomi Paik from Yale at assistant professor status. Co-organizer, “Lectures in Art and Diaspora: Asian in America.” Coordinated with Department of Art + Art History: Lectures in the Black Diaspora, The Institute for Historical Studies, and the Blanton Museum of Art, 2008-2009. Task Force on Faculty Gender Equity, Spring 2007-2008. Search Committee chair, CAAS and Anthropology. 2007-08. Hired Lok Siu from NYU at associate professor status. Conference co-chair, “Asia in Latin America.” Co-sponsored by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Barron Ulmer Kidd Centennial Lectureship, Division of Diversity and Community. October 2007. Coordinator, CAAS lecture series. Spring 2007, 2008-2009, Fall 2011, 2012-2013. Search Committee chair, CAAS and English. 2006-07. Hired Julia Lee from UCLA at assistant professor status.

Department and Other University Service Member, Search Committee, Texas State Historical Association Chief Historian, Department of History, 2015. Committee member, Department of History, Burleson and Ellis Prizes, AAME, and Transnational. Spring 2015. Chair, Search Committee, Assistant Professor line in History. Spring 2015. Hired Sam Vong (Yale, 2013). Chair, Department of History Scholarly Activity Grant Committee, 2013-2016. Program Coordinator, Institute for Historical Studies, organizing conference “TransPacific China in the Cold War” with Poshek Fu (UIUC) and Hon-ming Yip (CUHK), April 18-19, 2013. Bridging Disciplines Program in public policy, committee member, spring 2013. Lathrop Prize Committee chair, Department of History, 2011-2012. Minority Liaison Officer, Department of History, 2011-2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, 2015-2016. Center for East Asian Studies, Executive Committee member, 2011-2014. Search committee member, HIS and GRG recruitment of Diana Davis, Spring 2011. Presenter, “Border Views” video series, College of Liberal Arts, June 2010. Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation from the Public Relations Society of America. Steering Committee member, Institute for Historical Studies, Department of History, 2007-2008, 2009-11, 2012-13. Advisory Board Member, Vietnamese American Heritage Foundation Oral History 500 project, 2008-2014. Advisory board member, Dangerous Dialogues, University of Texas at Austin, 2008-2014. Equity Committee, Department of History, Fall 2009. Salary Committee, Department of History, Fall 2009. Coordinator, Department of History Brown Bag Lunch Series, 2008-2009. History Graduate Admissions Committee, 2007-08. Search Committee member, History, Non-British Empires. 2007-08. “Diaspora and Migration” thematic field coordinator, Department of History. 2007-2009. M.A. Program Coordinator, San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies. Spring 2000 – 2006. Academic Senate Children’s Center Advisory Board Representative. 2003-2006. Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee for Asian American Studies department, 2002-2006. Committee chair, 2002-2005. Search Committee chair, San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department search for specialist in Chinese American studies. 2005-2006. Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee for College of Ethnic Studies assistant professor, 2002-04. Graduate Council member, San Francisco State University, 2002-2006. On leave 2002-03 due to scheduling conflicts and sabbatical in spring 2003. Search Committee member, San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department hires for specializations in Vietnamese Americans and Chinese Americans. Spring 2001 and 2002. Committee member. San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies Graduate Council. Fall 2000. Committee member. San Francisco State University Librarian, five-year review committee. Spring 2000. Search Committee member, San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department hires for specializations in Vietnamese Americans, Chinese Vietnamese Americans, mixed heritage and Filipino American literature. Spring 2000. Committee member, Chao Suet Foundation Scholarship committee. Fall 1999—2006. Search Committee member, San Francisco State University Asian American Studies Department hires for specializations in Korean Americans, Chinese Vietnamese Americans, and Vietnamese American education. Spring 1999. Search Committee member, San Francisco State University History Department hire of U.S. race and ethnic history. Fall 1998-Spring 1999. Advisor, San Francisco State University, Asian American studies major program. 1998—2001. Coordinator, San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies Department Angel Island Field Trip. Fall 1996—Spring 1997, Spring 1998 to Fall 2002. Member, San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies M.A. degree implementation committee. Fall 1996.

COMMUNITY SERVICE Executive board member, Asian Family Social Service Agency, Austin, TX, 2015-2017. Workshop Presenter, “Asian American Studies for AISD K-12 Teachers,” Asian American Resource Center and AISD, May 13, 2015. Invited speaker, “Chinese and Early US Immigration Laws,” The Salon, Georgetown TX, Sept. 10, 2014. Invited speaker, “Do We Need Immigration Reform? The Good, Bad and the Ugly,” Asian American Resource Center, Austin TX, June 29, 2014. Invited keynote speaker, Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Camp Mabry, Austin, TX, May 23, 2013. Invited speaker, “Chinese Immigration: Yellow Peril and Model Minority,” “Building Leadership: Embracing Cultural Values and Inclusion,” Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) program, Department of Veterans Affairs, Austin, TX, May 1, 2013. Invited speaker, “Chinese Immigration,” Public Affairs Forum, First Unitarian Universalist Church, April 7, 2013. Invited Speaker, “Chinese Immigration,” US-China Youth Relations Club, LASA High School, March 4, 2013. Invited speaker, “Celebrate South Asian American History in Austin.” Austin History Center, April 17, 2012. Workshop facilitator, Network of Asian American Organizations Retreat, Austin, TX, January 22, 2012. Invited speaker, “The Origins of Chop Suey: Chinese American Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” Asian American Heritage Month series, Southwestern University, 18 April 2011. Invited roundtable participant, “Interconnections Between Race, Gender, and Sexual Harassment.” Center for Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on Sexual Harassment, University of Texas at Austin, Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011. Invited speaker, “The Origins of Chop Suey: Chinese American Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Asian Pacific American Heritage Association, Houston TX. Nov. 12, 2010. Workshop facilitator, Network of Asian American Organizations Retreat, Austin, TX, September 18, 2010. Invited presenter, “Taiwanese Identity.” Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association Conference, Austin TX March 27, 2010. Invited speaker, “The Origins of Chop Suey: Chinese American Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Learning Activities for Mature People, Third Age University at the University of Texas. Oct. 21, 2009. Faculty presenter for, "Teaching American History," Summer Institute on American immigration, University of Delaware, June 2006. Consultant, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Scholar’s Advisory Group meeting. San Francisco, 26 June 2006. Site committee member, 2005 Chinese American National Conference, “The Changing Face of Chinese America.” Co-sponsored by the Chinese Historical Society of America and Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University, October 7-9, 2005. Advisory Board member, Chinese Historical Society of America, 2004-2006. Editorial committee for Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1998 to 2005. Chair, 1998-2002. Board member, Chinese Historical Society of America, 1997 to 2002. Member, gala committee, nominations committee, exhibits committee, collections committee, publications committee. Member, Parents Advisory Committee, Early Childhood Education Center, 2003-2006. 1st Vice-President, Chinese Historical Society of America. 2001. 2nd Vice-President, Chinese Historical Society of America. January-December 2000. Editor, Chinese Historical Society of America monthly publication, Bulletin, Spring 1999 to Spring 2001. “’Bachelor’ Fathers and Gold Mountain Families: Matrimony and Childbirth Among Chinese American Men.” Talk delivered for Chinese Historical Society of America lecture series, 21 November 1997. “Life After Asian Studies--Graduate School?” Talk delivered at Pomona College, 27 November 1995.