2007-08 Visiting Scholars, Postdoctoral, Predoctoral, & Graduate Fellows, and Research Grant Awardees
Meet the IAC Postdoctoral Fellows/Visiting Scholars
2007-2008 IAC Graduate/Predoctoral Fellows
2007-2008 IAC Research Grant Faculty Recipients
In November 2007, the Institute of American Cultures (IAC) hosted a Fall Forum
& Welcome Reception in honor of the 2007-2008 Visiting Scholars,
Postdoctoral, Predoctoral, & Graduate Fellows, and Research Grant
Awardees.
Tritia Toyota, Ph.D., award-winning broadcast journalist & adjunct professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, interviewed IAC Visiting Scholars, Ellie Hernández, Deborah Miranda, and Amy Sueyoshi, about their research projects. (Dr. Winton was unable to attend the IAC Fall Forum as she was researching and teaching in Ghana)
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Meet the IAC Postdoctoral Fellows/Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholar, Chicano Studies Research Center
Ellie D. Hernández, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies
University of California at Santa Barbara
ehernandez@womst.ucsb.edu
Title of Project: Postnationalism: Nationalist Discontent in Chicana/o
Culture
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Chon Noriega
Visiting Scholar, American Indian Studies Center
Deborah Miranda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Washington & Lee University
mirandad@wlu.edu
Title of Project: The Light from Carrisa Plains: Re-Inventing
California Indian Identity
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Kenneth Lincoln
Visiting Scholar, Asian American Studies Center
Amy Sueyoshi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies and Human Sexuality Studies
San Francisco State University
sueyoshi@sfsu.edu
Title of Project: Two Shy Stars: The Romance of Yone Noguchi and
Charles Warren Stoddard, 1897-1909
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Don T. Nakanishi
Postdoctoral Fellow, Bunche Center for African American Studies
Sonya Winton, Ph.D.
African American Studies & Political Science
Yale University
sonyawinton@ucla.edu
Title of Project: The Environmental Justice Movement: NAACP, National
Urban League, and Secondary Marginalization
Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Brenda Stevenson
2007-2008 IAC Graduate/Predoctoral Fellows
American Indian Studies Center
Christopher Aplin, Ethnomusicology
Title of Project: The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Apache: Southwest
Ceremonialism and Experience of Place in the Southern Plains
Asian American Studies Center
Satish Kunisi, Asian American Studies
Research: Acts of physical violence inflicted upon South Asian and Arab
Americans in detention centers after the September 11th attacks.
Oiyan A. Poon, Education
Title of Project: Resisting Chinese Exclusion: School Desegregation
and Asian American Parents
Preeti Sharma, Asian American Studies
Research: Arab and South Asian American women’s counter-narratives to
the current U.S. war on terror and the Orientalist tropes that such a
war circulates.
Bunche Center for African American Studies
Dierdre B. Cooper Owens, History
Title of Project: “Courageous Negro Servitors” and Laboring Irish
Bodies: The Origins of Antebellum Nineteenth-Century Sexual Surgery
Chicano Studies Research Center
Lauryn C. Salazar, Ethnomusicology
Title of Project: The Academic Mariachi Movement of the West and Southwestern
United States
2007-2008 IAC Research Grant Faculty Recipients
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, Asian American Studies & World Arts and
Cultures
At Rise: On Filipino American Theater and Performance
David Gumaro García, Chicano Studies Visiting Scholar
Culture Clash: Critical Race Satire for Urgent Times
Anne J. Gilliland, Information Studies
Enhancing Intellectual Control over the Early African American Motion
Picture Collection at Western States Black Research Center
David Manuel Hernández, Chicana/o Studies
Subcontractors & Surrogates: Privatization and Defederalization of
U.S. Immigrant Detention Practices
Grace K. Hong, Asian American Studies
Death as Possibility: Governmentalities of Globalization and
Racialized Contradiction
Carollee Howes, Education
Eleanor A. Zucker, Education
Bridging the Gap: Helping Latino Families Connect with Los Angeles
Pre-School Systems
Marjorie Kagawa-Singer, Community Health Sciences & Asian American
Studies
Youth Nutrition and Physical Activity Project
Jerry Kang, Law
Implicit Bias against Asian Americans in the Law
Jinqi Ling, Asian American Studies & English
Across Meridians: History and Imagination in Karen Tei Yamashita's
Fictional Art
La'Tonya Rease Miles, Academic Advancement Program
The National Bowling Association and Black Bowlers in Southern
California
Mignon R. Moore, Sociology & African American Studies
“She's One of Our Own”: The Relationship of Gay Women of Color to
Black and Latina/o Communities, and to Lesbian Communities
Vilma Ortiz, Sociology
Edward Telles, Sociology
Ethnic Identity among Mexican Americans
Jerome Rabow, Sociology
Ethnic Minority Groups' Perception of Whites
DeAnna Rivera, Law
Kimberly Dawn Robertson, Ph.D. candidate, Women’s Studies
Unidentified Bodies: Urban Indian Women and Gendered Violence
Shu-mei Shih, Asian Languages & Cultures & Comparative Literature
Sinophone American Literature: A Critical Bibliography
Min Zhou, Asian American Studies & Sociology
The Push-Pull Forces and Transnational Movements: Highly Skilled
Migrants from Mainland China to the United States
2007-2008 IAC Research Grant Graduate Student Recipients
Christopher Aplin, Ethnomusicology
The Fire Dance of the Fort Sill Apache: Southwest Ceremonialism and
Experience of Place in the Southern Plains
Jolie Chea, Asian American Studies
Routes to “Freedom”: Khmer Rouge Survivors in the U.S.
Heather M. Daly, History
American Indian Freedom Controversy
Faustina Marie DuCros, Sociology
Louisiana Migrants in Los Angeles: First and Second Generation
Interpretations of Race and Ethnicity
Nina Farnia, Urban Planning
The Racialization of Iranians and Iranian-Americans in the San Fernando
Valley
Jorge Andrés Herrera, Ethnomusicology
The Saxophone-based Conjunto Norteño: An Innovative Musical Genre
Propelling Mexican American Cultural Appreciation and Awareness
Natalie Joy, History
“Hydra's Head”: Fighting Slavery and Indian Removal in the Early
Republic
Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Psychology
The effects of Black stereotypicality on the experience of stereotype
threat
Satish S. Kunisi, Asian American Studies
Pain, Penalty and Capital in Post 9-11 Detentions
Natalya Maisel, Psychology
Stress and Coping in Interethnic Romantic Relationships
Kari Anne Mans, American Indian Studies
Negotiating NAGPRA: The Effects of Federal Recognition in Tribal
Cultural Resource Sovereignty
Brian Min, Political Science
Pilot Study to Measure Government Resource Distributions in Two Inuit
Villages
Vanessa Ochoa, Education
What's OK at Foshay? A Portrait of an Academically Effective High
School's Contribution to Latino Academic Preparation and the College
Choice Process
Joshua A. Paddison, History
American Heathens: Religion, Race, and Reconstruction in California
Julie J. Park, Education
Race, Religion, and the Campus Climate: Exploring a Multi-ethnic Campus
Religious Group
Allison Ramay, Spanish and Portuguese
Revealing Perspectives from the South: Representations of the Mapuche
Kimberly Dawn Robertson, Women’s Studies
Representations That Matter: American Indian Women and Sexualized
Violence
Theresa Rocha, American Indian Studies
The Intertribal Court of Southern California—Culturally Conscious
Legal Access for California Indians
David Sarabia, Comparative Literature
The Anthropological Texts of Juan Rulfo
Sangita Shresthova, World Arts and Cultures
“It's all about the hips” and the Professionalization of Bollywood
Dance in Los Angeles
Leticia Soto, Ethnomusicology
Female Identity in Mariachi Performance
Adai Tefera, Education
The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Students of Color with Special
Needs: Perceptions of Administrators, Teachers & Students
Ravneet K. Tiwana, Education
Panjabi Language Instruction at the American Sikh Temple School: A
Site for Hybrid Cultural Socialization
Dennis Tyler, English
The Disability of Color: Reconsidering the Black Body in African
American Literature and Culture
Yang Sao Xiong, Sociology
Hmong Americans: The First Generation and Their Children
Fanny Yeung, Education
Robert Rhoads, Professor of Education
Knowing What You Know, Would You Do It Again? Experiences of Asian
American Female Faculty Members in Higher Education
Christina Maria Zanfagna, Ethnomusicology
Flippin' the Script(ure): Hip-Hop, Religion, and African American
Youth
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