Vita

CURRENT POSITION

Professor, Graduate College of Education (1995-Present ), and Director, Asian American Studies Program, University of Massachusetts Boston (Assistant Professor, 1991-1995); coordinate and teach undergraduate courses in Asian American Studies; teach graduate courses in social studies curriculum design and multicultural education; regularly serve on dissertation committees for Higher Education Administration, Leadership in Urban Schools, and Clinical Psychology doctoral programs.

EDUCATION

Harvard University Graduate School of Education: Ed.D. 1991; Ed.M. 1986.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Community Fellow, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.

Harvard College: B.A., Magna Cum Laude, joint major: Visual & Environmental Studies and Geological Sciences, 1980.

PRIOR TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Lecturer, American Studies Program and Sociology Department, UMass Boston, 1987-1991; developed and taught: "Asian Minorities in America," "Southeast Asians in America," and "Boston's Asian American Communities".

Research Associate, William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences, UMass Boston, 1987-1991; coordinated research with/about Southeast Asian refugee students and communities; directed "Southeast Asian Oral History Project" including design, documentation, training, and resource development.

Lecturer, American Studies Program, Yale University, 1988; developed and taught "Ethnicity and Change in Asian American Communities".

Lecturer, Metropolitan College, Boston University, 1987; developed and taught "The Asian American Experience".

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

• education and Asian Americans
• minority and immigrant/refugee youth and community development
• ethnic studies curriculum and program development in P-12 and higher education
• pedagogy and voice in the classroom
• trauma, healing, and legacies of the U.S./Viet Nam war
• critical reflexivity and qualitative research methods

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Director, Asian American Resource Workshop, Boston, 1980-86; nationally-recognized center with programs in education, culture, and community advocacy for Asian Americans throughout New England; coordinated conferences on "Learning and Teaching from the Asian American Experience" (1985), "Cable Television and the Chinatown Community" (1984), and "Our Roots in History: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Acts" (1982).

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