Kathleen S. Yep, Ph.D.
1050 North Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone: 909-607-2645
E-mail: Kathleen_Yep@pitzer.edu
Web: http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/~kyep/
|
EMPLOYMENT |
Associate Professor |
2009 to present |
|
PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA
Asian American Studies
Chair, Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies
|
|
Assistant Professor |
2004-2009 |
|
PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA
Asian American Studies and Sociology (Joint Appointment)
|
|
|
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow |
2002-2004 |
|
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , SANTA CRUZ
Department of History
National fellowship competition, one of
approximately 16 for entire UC system |
|
|
|
|
EDUCATION |
Ph.D., University of California , Berkeley |
1996 - 2002 |
|
COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES
Sociology |
RESEARCH INTERESTS |
|
|
|
Theories of Race and Gender; Social Stratification, Social Movements; Education; Public Culture; Cultural Politics; Anti-Racist and Feminist Pedagogies; Oral Historiography and Social Documentation Research Methodologies |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yep, Kathleen S. 2009. Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled the Chinese Playground. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press)
Yep, Laurence and Kathleen S. Yep. 2008. Dragon’s Child. (New York: Harper Collins) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
INVITED TALKS |
|
|
|
Asian American Studies and Teaching as Social Change”
Department of Asian American Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara, Spring 2010
“Racialized Masculinities and the Politics Basketball”
Department of American StudiesUniversity of California, Santa Cruz Fall 2008 |
|
|
|
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS |
|
"You Are Worth Something": Innovative Classrooms and (Re)claiming Place with Asian Immigrant women and College Students"
Association for Asian American Studies, Apr. 2012
“There Was More For All Of Us: Dialogical Pedagogies And Sociological Imagination”
Pacific Sociological Association
With Katja Guenther (U.C. Riverside), Marcia Hernandez (University of Pacific), and Laura Nichols (Santa Clara University) |
Apr. 2009 |
“Something Larger Than Yourself: Asian Americans Teaching As Social Change”
Association of Asian American Studies
With Jean Ishibashi (San Francisco City College), Ulla Hassager (University of Hawai’I, Manoa), Michael James (Independent Scholar), Joyce Lu (U.C. Berkeley) |
Jan. 2009 |
“Political Engagement and Critical Pedagogies”
Association of American Colleges & Universities Annual Meeting
With David Donahue (Mills College), S. Patrick Doyle (CSU Chico), Marcia Hernandez (University of Pacific), and Elaine Ikeda (Campus Compact) |
Apr. 2006 |
“‘We Were Rough And Rough’: Negotiating Femininity,
Class, And Race In Chinatown Basketball "
Session Title: Dynamics of Social Inequality:
Sport as Contested Terrain
Presidential Thematic Panel, Pacific Sociological Association
Organizer and Presider, Michael A. Messner
with presenters Eric Anderson (University of Bath) and Sherri Grasmuck (Temple University) |
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS |
|
2010 |
Community Engaged Course Grant
Changemakers, CCCSI |
2009-2010 |
Pitzer Scholar-In-Residence |
2009 |
“Women, Faith and Action: Asian Pacific Islander Women and their Faith-Based Activism in the 1960s-70s”
$10,000
California Council for the Humanities
California Story Fund
Project Director: Rev. Deborah Lee, Pacific School of Religion
|
2007-2009 |
Faculty Fellow
Carnegie Foundation – California Campus Compact
Service Learning For Political Engagement Fellowship |
2008-2009 |
Dragon’s Child (Harper Collins, 2008)
*New York Public Library's "Top 100 Books to Read and Share in 2008.
*Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice for 2009 The CCBC is an examination, study and research library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
2007-2008 |
Teaching Grant
Bonner Foundation
Grant to support community-based research in community placements and a course |
2007-2008 |
Teaching Grant
Project Pericles
Grant to support teaching for social responsibility and participatory citizenship |
MEDIA INTERVIEWS |
|
Aug. 2009 |
New America Now, National Public Radio
KALW
“Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground” (Temple University Press, 2009) |
Aug. 2009 |
KTSF, Evening News
“Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground” (Temple University Press, 2009) |