kathleen s. yep, ph.d.

(SHORT VERSION) Professor Yep is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College and the chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her research and teaching interests include cultural politics, feminist/antiracist pedagogies, social documentation and social movements. She is the author of Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground (Temple University Press, 2009), which examines how working-class Chinese American women and men utilized basketball as a source of collective empowerment in the 1930s. Dr. Yep has published in over six peer-reviewed journals including Ethnic and Racial Studies and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Awarded Pitzer's 2010 Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Yep is currently researching the politics of place in Southern California and Hawai'i. Receiving her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, Yep was a University of California President's Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

(LONG VERSION) Professor Yep is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College and the chair of the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. Her research and teaching interests include cultural politics, feminist/antiracist pedagogies, social documentation and social movements. She is the author of Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground (Temple University Press, 2009), which examines how working-class Chinese American women and men utilized basketball to mediate poverty, patriarchy, heteronormativity, and racial segregation in the 1930s. Dr. Yep has published articles in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Journal for Civic Commitment, Sociology of Sport Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Asian American Policy Review and essays in anthologies. She also co-authored Dragon's Child: The Story of Angel Island (HarperCollins, 2008) with award-winning author Dr. Laurence Yep. The novel was named one of New York Public Library's "Top 100 Books to Read and Share in 2008" and a Cooperative Book Center Choice for 2009. Awarded Pitzer's 2010 Scholar-in-Residence, Dr. Yep is currently researching community (re)formations and the politics of place in Southern California and Hawai'i. With a specialization in oral historiography, she advised a community digital archive funded by the California Council of the Humanities called "API Women, Faith, Action: Fourteen Oral Histories of Asian Pacific Islander women and their faith-based activism." Funded by the Carnegie Foundation and California Campus Compact, Yep was awarded a two-year faculty fellowship in the "Service Learning for Political Engagement Program." In addition, the Bonner Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, and Project Pericles have funded her to integrate community-based learning and social action research in her teaching. Raised in Northern California, Professor Yep received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a University of California President's Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.