• Educational Background
• Academic Positions
• Publications
• Works Forthcoming
  

Stanford University, Ph.D., U.S. History with secondary field in Chinese History (1992-1998)

        Dissertation: "Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards Club: A Thematic Biography of Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959)."

Stanford University, A.M., U.S. History (1992-1993)

Stanford University, A.B. with Honors and Distinction, American Studies with focus in Ethnic Studies (1987-1992)

        Honors Thesis: "The Pro-China Movement in San Francisco Chinatown, 1969-1979."

Academic Positions

Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, History Department (2004-present)

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University, History Department (1998-2004)

Humanities Fellow, The Ohio State University, History Department (1997-1998)

Research Assistant, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (1991-1992)

• Edited primary documents and introductory essay for Vol. 3 which covers the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Publications

“Asian American History and Racialized Compulsory Deviance,” a retrospective essay on Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Journal of Women’s History 15:3 (Fall 2003):  58-62.

“Margaret Jessie Chung,” Entry in Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered History in America, ed. By Marc Stein (Charles Scribners Publishing, 2003).

“Asian American History and Racialized Compulsory Deviance,” a retrospective essay on Adrienne Rich's "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence," Journal of Women’s History 15:3 (Fall 2003):  58-62.

“’The Ministering Angel of Chinatown:’  Missionary Uplift, Modern Medicine, and Asian American Women’s Strategies of Liminality,” Asian/Pacific Islander American Women:  A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura (New York University Press, 2003)

“Was Mom Chung a ‘Sister Lesbian’?:  Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism,” Journal of Women’s History 13:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 58-82.

•           Honorable Mention for the 2000-2001 Audre Lorde Prize, given for an outstanding article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual,
            and/or queer history published in English

           •          Reprinted in American Dreams, Transnational Lives, ed. By Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz (Urbana:  University of Illinois Press, 2005)

“‘Loveliest Daughter of Our Ancient Cathay!’:  Representations of Ethnic and Gender Identity in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. Beauty Pageant,” Journal of Social History 31:1 (September 1997), pp. 5-31. 

•           Reprinted in Business and Beauty:  Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America (New York:  Routledge Press, 2001)

•           Reprinted in Western Women’s Lives:  Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, ed. By Sandra K. Schackel (Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 2003), pp. 389-426.

Works Forthcoming

“Radical Orientalism:  Asia, Asian America, and American Social Movements, 1955-1970s,” book project

Co-authored with Karen J. Leong, “Starving Orphans and Cheong Sam Beauties:  Staging China for Humanitarian Relief,” solicited essay for a Festschrift in honor of Him Mark Lai, edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Hsu

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