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Professor
Email:tracy.buenavista@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-5688
Office location: JR 340D
Biography
Dr. Tracy Lachica Buenavista
"Asian American Studies is important as a site to interrogate power, empower individuals and communities, and critically work together to transform oppressive structures.鈥澨�
Tracy Lachica Buenavista is Professor of Asian American Studies and a core faculty member in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. She also serves as the co-principal investigator for the 快活林性息 DREAM Center, Asian American Studies Pathways Project, and Ethnic Studies Education Pathways Project; and is a member of the Project Rebound Community Advisory Committee. Professor Buenavista teaches courses on race and racism, immigration, and research methods, and in her research uses critical race theory to examine how education, immigration and carcerality shape the contemporary experiences of Filipino/a/x and other People of Color in the U.S. She is originally from the Bay Area, and loves to read, run, and jump rope.
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Education
- Ph.D. Education (Emphasis in Higher Education and Organizational Change), University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.
- M.A. Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.
- M.A. Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University, 2002.
- B.A. Integrative Biology with a minor in Ethnic Studies. University of California, Berkeley, 2000.
听Selected Publications
- Buenavista, T. L., Jain, D., &听Ledesma, M. (Eds.) (Forthcoming).听First-generation faculty of color:听Reflections on research, teaching, and service. Rutgers University Press.
- Buenavista, T. L., Cariaga, S., Curammeng, E. R., McGovern, E. R., Pour-Khorshid, F., Stovall, D. O., & Valdez, C. (Forthcoming).听A praxis of critical race love: Toward the abolition of cisheteropatriarchy and toxic masculinity in educational justice formations.听Educational Studies. DOI:10.1080/00131946.2021.1892683听
- Buenavista, T. L.听(Forthcoming). Critical race theory.听The Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies. SAGE.
- Buenavista, T. L., Stovall, D. O., Curammeng, E. R., & Valdez, C. (2019). Ethnic studies educators as enemies of the state and the fugitive space of classrooms. In C. Sleeter, R. T. Cuauhtin, W. Au, & M. Zavala (Eds.),听Rethinking ethnic studies听(pp. 220鈥�225). Rethinking Schools.
- Ali, A. I. &听Buenavista, T. L.听(Eds.). (2018).听Education at war!: The fight for students of color in America鈥檚 public schools. Fordham University Press.
- Buenavista, T. L.听(2018).听Model (undocumented) minorities and 鈥渋llegal鈥� immigrants: Centering Asian Americans and U.S. carcerality in undocumented student discourse.听Race Ethnicity and Education,听21(1), 78鈥�91. DOI:10.1080/13613324.2016.1248823.听
- Curammeng, E. R.,听Buenavista, T. L., & Cariaga, S. (2017). Asian American critical race theory: Origins, directions, and praxis. Center for Critical Race Studies at UCLA Research Briefs.
- Buenavista, T. L.听(2016). The making of a movement: Ethnic studies in a k鈥�12 context. In D. M. Sandoval, A. J. Ratcliff, T. L. Buenavista, & J. R. Marin (Eds.),听鈥淲hite鈥� washing in American education: The new culture wars in Ethnic Studies听(pp. vii鈥搙xvii). Praeger Press.
- McGovern, E. R. &听Buenavista, T. L.听(2016). Ethnic studies with k鈥�12 students, families, and communities: The role of teacher education in preparing educators to serve the people.听XChange: Publications and resources for public school professionals. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Center X/UC Regents. Available at听
- Buenavista, T. L.听(2012).听Citizenship at a cost: Undocumented Asian youth perceptions and the militarization of immigration.听Asian American and Pacific Islander Nexus,听10(1), 101鈥�124.
Selected Honors and Awards
- 快活林性息 University Student Union, Aida C. Salazar Award, 2020
- UC Davis Equity Summit, Community Engagement and Scholar Activism Award, 2020
- 快活林性息 Faculty Senate Outstanding Faculty Award, 2018
- 快活林性息 Exceptional Service to Students Award, 2017
- San Francisco State University,听Outstanding Asian American Studies Alumni Award, 2015
- 快活林性息 University Ambassadors, Polished Apple Teaching Award, 2012, 2006
Professor
Email:听edith.chen@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-5690
Office location: JR 340A
Biography
Edith Wen-Chu Chen听is professor of Asian American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from UCLA. Originally from Texas, Dr. Chen is a second generation Chinese American who received her undergraduate degree from University of Texas at Austin.听 Much of her research has been policy-oriented and/or community-based dealing with race, gender and equity. This includes supervising a 5-year National Institutes of Health funded grant on Asian Americans and diabetes; examining experiences of faculty of color in higher education; creating curriculum and educational materials for high school and college teachers; and an oral history and digital archival project of Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley. Currently she is wrapping up a National Institutes of Health funded project, "Is Assimilation Costing Asian Americans their Health: Type 2 diabetes in California's Asian American populations." This is the first multi-year large scale grant at 快活林性息 dedicated to working with undergraduate and graduate students on Asian Americans and health research. You can find her teaching AAS 100 (Introduction to Asian American Studies) and AAS 340 (Asian American Women). During her sabbatical (2023-2024), she "enjoyed" studying Mandarin at Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University.
Professor
Email:听tomo.hattori@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7284
Office location: JR 340P
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Biography
Dr. Tomo Hattori
Tomo Hattori is an Associate Professor of Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies at California State University, Northridge. His work has appeared in the leading journals听Novel听and听differences听and in the groundbreaking anthologies听Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric听(honorable mention, Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Modern Language Association, 2008) and听Growing Up Asian American in Children鈥檚 Literature听(winner, Children鈥檚 Literature Association Edited Book Award, 2020). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Asian American literature, comics, and critical theory.听
Education
- Ph.D. English Literature, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1994
- M.A. English Literature, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1989
- B.A. English Literature, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1988
Recent Scholarship听听
- 鈥淢atters of Life and Death: Transnational Manifestations of Power in Two Multicultural Picture Books.鈥� Collaboration with Stuart Ching and Jann Pataray-Ching.听International Research in Children鈥檚 Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.听听
- 鈥淗ow to Be a Monkey: Stereotyping and the Transformative Instant in Gene Luen Yang鈥檚 American Born Chinese and Level Up.鈥澨齓mitri Mathison, ed.听听Growing Up Asian American in Children鈥檚 Literature.听听Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.听
Professor
Email:听clement.lai@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7243
Office location: JR 340N
Biography
Dr. Clement Lai听
"Asian American Studies links the study of power with the politics of social justice and building a new world. It is grounded in concerns centered on solidarity, on empowerment, and on possibility."
Dr. Clement Lai earned his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies in 2006 and an MA in Geography in 1997 from the University of California, Berkeley. He also has a BA in Asian Studies from Pomona College, where he helped found an Asian American students鈥� center in the early 1990s and an Asian American Studies program.
Prior to joining the faculty at 快活林性息, Professor Lai worked at Cornell University and as a community organizer and volunteer with Asian American organizations in Northern California and Southern California.
Professor Lai鈥檚 research focuses on race and space, on social movements, on politics and public policy issues, and on multiracial racial formation. He is currently writing a manuscript on redevelopment in San Francisco鈥檚 Fillmore District and its effects on the neighborhood鈥檚 African American and Japanese American communities.
He has published on racial theory and space in a multiracial context and on the importance of place and space to the mobilization of Asian American Movement activists. His current research projects include oral history-based research on historic multiracial neighborhoods on the US West Coast and studying the implications of colorblind racism in urban planning policy, practice, and pedagogy. He teaches on Asian American history, urban studies, and political issues. Professor Lai approaches Asian American Studies as a political project grounded in social justice. He is a Southern California native who, in his spare time, enjoys spending time with his wife, playing guitar, and walking his dog Mochi.
Education
- Ph.D.听Ethnic Studies , University of California, Berkeley, 2006
- M.A.听Geography, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
- B.A.听Asian Studies, Pomona College, 1991
Scholarship Highlights
- "The Racial Triangulation of Space: The Case of Urban Renewal in San Francisco's Fillmore District," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101, 6, forthcoming.
- "Saving Japantown, Serving the People: The Scalar Politics of the Asian American Movement," Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, forthcoming.
- Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCLA, 2008-2009
- UC President's Dissertation Fellowship, 2005
Assistant Professor
Email:听simmy.makhijani@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7218
Office Location: JR 340L
Biography
Dr. Simmy Makhijani
Simmy Makhijani is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at California State University (Northridge).听As an educator, activist, and scholar her work focuses on the intersections of art, living histories, youth organizing, cross-racial solidarity and movement building with emphases in Asian American and South Asian American (activism) studies.
At 快活林性息, Professor Makhijani teaches courses on critical thinking and im/migration conceptualized through intersectional frameworks of world-ecology and solidarity. She also designed 快活林性息鈥檚 first ever South Asian American 鈥渆xperiences鈥� course with special attention given to community activism and solidarity as critical praxis. The core of her pedagogy is best described as seeding an imagination (and a building of) a just social universe, because the future is up to us,听all of us!听听
While living in the Bay Area, she was a full-time lecturer at San Francisco State University in the College of Ethnic Studies for six years and prior to that co-founded + co-ran United Roots (a green youth arts and media community center in Oakland) for five years. Over the last two decades she has been involved with numerous community organizing efforts including South Asians for Education Justice Collective, Asians 4 Black Lives, Third World Resistance Coalition, Bay Area Solidarity Summer, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, Narika, Asian Women鈥檚 Shelter, South Asian Women鈥檚 Creative Collective-SF, and Art in Action.听
Professor Makhijani holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology plus a Masters in Asian and Comparative Studies and continues to share her research/writing with several community, activist, and education projects committed to the work of transformative/healing justice in action.听
Education
- PhD, California Institute of Integral Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology
- MA, California Institute of Integral Studies, Asian and Comparative Studies
- BA, Pennsylvania State University, Journalism
Selected Publications
Nguyen, T., Buyco, R., Lin, M., Makhijani, S., and Yamashita, W. (2024). 鈥淭owards a Critical Pedagogy of Introduction: Contradictions of Ethnic Studies as General Education after AB-1460.鈥� In听AAPI Nexus Journal: Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community.听UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Vol. 21, No. 1. Los Angeles, CA: Spring 2024.
Makhijani, S. (2020). 鈥淒esis Rising Up and Moving, 2000-Present.鈥� In E. Hobson and D. Berger (Volume Eds.),听Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973-2001.University of Georgia Press.
Makhijani, S. (2020). 鈥淪outh Asians on the Pacific West Coast (the Early Years): A Brief History of the Present.鈥� In E. Shrake, T. Leon, and C. Chen (Eds.),听Asian Pacific American Experiences: Past, Present, and Future (2ndEdition), Kendall Hunt Publishing.听
Makhijani, S. (2020). 鈥淏loodlines of Ghadar: Two Generations of Radical South Asian American Women.鈥� In E. Shrake, T. Leon, and C. Chen (Eds.),听Asian Pacific American Experiences: Past, Present, and Future (2ndEdition), Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Makhijani, S. (2020). 鈥�#Asians4BlackLives鈥� In E. Shrake, T. Leon, and C. Chen (Eds.),听Asian Pacific American Experiences: Past, Present, and Future (2ndEdition), Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Fu, M., Makhijani, S., Pham, A., Richart, M., Tien, J., and Wong, D. (2019).听鈥淎sians4BlackLives: Notes from the Ground.鈥� In D. Fujino and R. Rodriguez (Guest Eds.),听Amerasia Journal,45:2, 253-70. Routledge/Taylor and Francis.
Makhijani, S. (2015). 鈥淲hich Side Are You On?: Black and South Asian American Youth, Solidarity Activism, and New Generation Politics,鈥� PhD diss., California Institute of Integral Studies.
Makhijani, S. (2013). 鈥淯nited States of Dissent: Converging Political Imaginaries of the Ghadarites and Black Panthers.鈥� In听SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, Issue 41, published online.
Makhijani, S. (2008). 鈥淲ar Harvest: Can There Be Such A Thing As A Post-Conflict Society?鈥� In听Catamaran: South Asian American Writing,听Volume 9, Thames Printing Company, Inc., Norwich, CT: Winter 2008.
Selected Honors and Awards
San Francisco State University, Outstanding Teaching, Service, and Dedication to the Principles of Ethnic Studies Award, 2021
Acting Chair, Professor
Email:听gina.masequesmay@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-7219
Office location: JR 346C
Biography
Dr. Gina Masequesmay
"Asian American Studies is important for the self-empowerment of students; contesting mainstream knowledge; and fighting for social justice for all, not just for some."
Dr. Masequesmay filed her doctoral dissertation in Sociology at UCLA in January 26, 2001. Three days later, she began her teaching career at 快活林性息. Her areas of interests are Vietnamese American experiences, the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality, and identity work.
Dr. Masequesmay and her colleague, Dr. Teresa Williams-Leon were awarded $45,000 from Ford Foundation to organize a second national conference on Asian American sexuality and sensuality called, "CrossTalk II: Embodiments of Asian Pacific American Sexuality".
She is consulting with Dr. Nhut Ho in engineering on a research project on automation and trust. Her current interest is on practicing peace and collective & individual healing.
Education
- Ph.D.听Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
- M.A.听Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995
- B.A.听Sociology, Pomona College, 1991
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Scholarship Highlights
- I contributed to 鈥溍�-M么i鈥� in听Many Bridges, One River: Organizing for Justice in Vietnamese American Communities,听edited by Thuan Nguyen and Vy Nguyen. Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center, 2017.
- Introduction chapter on Vietnamese lgbt issues with coverage of the first lgbt contingent to the Tet Parade in Little Saigon. Masequesmay, Gina (2012). "Queering Tet," in Eunai Shrake & Edith Chen (eds.),听Asian Pacific American Experiences: Past, Present, and Future. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, pp. 323-334.
- Another co-edited book with Dr. Ana Sanchez Munoz, Dr. Tracy Buenavista, Dr. Eunai Shrake. It is a followed-up collection to听Learning English / Learning America听called听Navigating the Great Recession, providing voices of resilience as immigrant families navigate economic hard times. It was published by Kendal/Hunt Publication in 2011.
- My co-edited book with Sean Metzger:听Embodying Asian/American Sexualities. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2009. This work was originally inspired by a conference that I co-organized with Dr. Teresa Williams-Leon called "CrossTalk II: Embodiments of API Sexuality."
- My entry on "Sexism" is out in the听Encyclopedia of Gender and Society,听edited by Jodi O'Brien. Sage Publications, 2008.
- I have a book out that I have co-edited with Dr. Juana Mora, Dr. Eunai Shrake and Dr. Ana Sanchez Munoz. It is a collection of essays called听Learning English / Learning America. It is published by Kendal/Hunt Publication.
- A chapter I had written about critical ethnography and Ethnic Studies is published! "Methodological Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Ethnography" in听Handbook of Research Methods in Ethnic Studies, edited by Timothy P. Fong. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 2008.
- 鈥淏uilding Allies: Linking Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Studies,鈥� in Teaching about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Effective Activities, Assignments, and Strategies for Classrooms and Workshops, Edith Chen and Glenn Omatsu (ed.). San Francisco: Altamira Press. (2006).
- Recipient of the 2004-05 Don Dorsey Excellence in Mentoring Award.
Eunai听Shrake
Professor (FERP)
Email:听eunai.shrake@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-2151
Office location: JR 346A
Biography
Dr. Eunai Shrake - Advising Coordinator
"Asian American Studies is important because it provides intellectual space to reflect on American society's race/class structure and to (re)think ways to build a more democratic and equitable society."
Dr. Shrake is a professor who specializes in Asian American education. Prior to joining 快活林性息 AAS department in 2002, she taught at UCLA, UCI, and CSULB.
She teaches ITEP and teacher education courses such as Asian American Child and The Schools (AAS 450), and Equity and Diversity in School (AAS 417). Her teaching repertoire also includes Introduction to Asian American Studies (AAS 100), and Directed Research in Contemporary Korean American Community (AAS 495KAC).
She has published three co-edited books and various journal articles and book chapters. Her current research projects focus on 鈥淧arachute Kids鈥� and 鈥淭ransnational (Wild Geese) Families鈥� from East Asian countries.
She is an animal lover and spends her spare time playing with her 7 kitties; Gigi, Fifi, Pierre, Kiki, Marcel, Sophie, and Cherie.
Dr. Shrake with her AAS 495 class in 2013 at her house
Education
- Ph.D. Education (emphasis in Social Sciences of Education & Comparative Education), University of California, Los Angeles.
- Th.M. Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, TX,
- M.A. Christian Education, Presbyterian College, Seoul, Korea
- B.A. Christian Education, Presbyterian College, Seoul, Korea
Scholarship Highlights
- Co-editor (with Mora, Masequesmay & Munoz),听Learning English/Learning America: Voices of Latinos and Asian Americans听(Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 2008).
- Co-editor (with Munoz, Buenavista & Masequesmay),听Navigating the Great Recession听(Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 2011).
- Co-editor (with E. Chen)听Asian Pacific American Experience: Past, Present, and Future听(Kendall/Hunt Publishers, 2012).
Professor
Email:听teresa.k.williams@csun.edu
Phone: 818-677-6098
Office location: JR 340G
Biography
Dr. Teresa Williams Le贸n
"Asian American Studies is important because it was born out of the passion, dedication, and struggle of Asian Americans and people of all ethnic groups who knew that the critical examination of Asian Americans has a legitimate place in higher education."
Dr. Williams Le贸n听is currently serving as the acting director of the American Indian Studies Program.听 Her research and teaching interest focus on transnational, transborder, multiethnic/multiracial identity, communities and institutions, race and ethnic relations, and the multiracial/multiethnic Asian diaspora in Japan, the United States and Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Williams Le贸n has published numerous articles and book chapters. She has also been featured in documentary films and media presentations on multiracial and transnational identities. She co-edited, with Professor Velina Hasu Houston of USC., the special issues of听Amerasia Journal听(1997, Vol. 23, No. 1) titled, "No Passing Zone: The Artistic and Discursive Voices of Asian-Descent Multiracials," which has now become part of Amerasia's classic series. She co-edited an anthology with Cynthia L. Nakashima of UC Berkeley titled, "" (Temple University Press, 2001).
She has taught some of the first classes on multiracial/biracial identity at UC-Santa Barbara, UCLA, and 快活林性息. She has been a faculty member at 快活林性息 since Fall of 1996. She is a board member of Hapa Issues Forum, Southern California Chapter and an advisory board member of the national organization of Hapa Issues Forum.
Dr. Williams Le贸n, with her colleague, Dr. Masequesmay, was awarded a $45,000 grant from the Ford Foundation in 2001-2002 to organize and develop a national educational conference titled " CrossTalk II: Embodiments of Asian Pacific Islander Sexuality" to promote dialogue and research among community-based organizers, biomedical researchers, scholars, educators, artists, social scientists, health care providers, and humanists, as well as to affect social policy issues around Asian American sexuality and sensuality issues. Dr. Williams Le贸n is a 快活林性息 Ally with the Positive Space Program (PSP).
In 2002, Teresa Williams Leon was awarded the Prism Award from the National Hapa Issues Forum for her contributions to multiracial identity scholarship. In 2004 & 2005, she was awarded the Polished Apple Teaching Awards from the University Ambassadors. In 2007, she won 快活林性息's Outstanding Faculty Award & in 2009, she was recognized for her commitment to international education with the "Outstanding Service Award" by the Omega chapter of Phi Beta Delta (the international scholar's society).
Education
- Ph.D.听Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
- M.A.听Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1991
- M.A.听Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
- B.A.听Japanese Language and Literature with a certificate in Ethnic Studies, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 1986
- A.A.听Asian Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, 1983
Scholarship Highlights
- Dr.听 Le贸n is currently collaborating on publication projects with Dr. Velina Hasu Houston (USC), Dr. Curtiss Takada Rooks (LMU) and Dr. H. Rika Houston (CSULA) on multiraciality & intersectionality.
- Co-editor (with Eunai Shrake and Edith Wen-Chu Chen)听Asian Pacific American Experiences:听 Past, Present and Future听(Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2020).
- Co-editor (with Cynthia L. Nakashima),听听(Temple University Press, 2001).
- Co-editor, (with Velina Hasu Houston), special issues of听Amerasia Journal听(1997, Vol. 23, No. 1) titled, "No Passing Zone: The Artistic and Discursive Voices of Asian-Descent Multiracials."
