Kathleen S. Yep, Ph.D.

 

SELECTED VITA INFORMATION

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EMPLOYMENT                   Assistant Professor                                          2004 to present

                                                PITZER COLLEGE, Claremont, CA

Intercollegiate Department of 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,                   2000 - 2002

                                                COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES

                                                Sociology/ Gender Studies               

 

M.A.                             University of California, Berkeley,                   1996 - 1998

COMPARATIVE ETHNIC STUDIES                

 

 

QUALIFYING                        Spring, 2000, Passed with distinction

EXAMINATION                   (1 of approx. 4 honors granted in the history of the department)

           

Fields: Theories of Race and Ethnicity, Asian American History/Historiography,

Qualitative Research Methods with a Specialty in Oral Historiography

 

 

PAPERS                                  “‘We were rough and tough’: Negotiating femininity,                     Apr. 2006

DELIVERED                         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 and Sherri Grasmuck

 

                                                Roundtable Title: “Unbinding Asian American Women’s                        Jun. 2005

Lives: Judy Yung’s Contributions to History”

With Sue Armitage, Karen Leong, Xiaojian Zhao, and Judy Yung

Berkshire Conference on the History of Women

 

“Orientalism and its Discontents: performing nation                             Nov. 2004

and racialized masculinities”

Spotlight Session,  “Interdisciplinary Dialogues: Thinking Through

Sport, Race, and the Nation

With Brett St. Louis and Gregory Rodriguez

National conference,  North American Society for Sociology of Sport

 

                                                “We were like mosquitoes”: Place, basketball and the                            Aug. 2004

                                                Chinese Playground”

                                                With David Yoo, Masao Suzuki, and Timothy Tseng

                                                Conference, Pacific Coast Branch- American Historical Association

 

                                                The Hong Wah Kues vs. the Harlem Globetrotters:                             May 2003

comparative constructions of racialized masculinity”                                             

With Alice Yang-Murray, Jack Tchen, Jere Takahashi, Henry Yu.

National conference, Association of Asian American Studies                      

 

          

 

                                                “Little Laundry men: basketball and the racial                                      Mar. 2003

hierarchy of subordinated masculinities in the late 1930s”                          

                                                Invited Speaker for conference

“Capitalizing on Sport: America, Democracy and Everyday Life”

                                                University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign- Center on Democracy in a Multiracial society                                                                                   

 

 

REVIEW ACTIVITIES            JOURNAL OF SPORT AND SOCIAL ISSUES

 

                                        WOMEN’S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM 

                                            SEX ROLES

 

 

PROFESSIONAL                  Interviewed                                                                             Sep. 16, 2005

ACTIVITIES                          TRACY PRESS

“Necessary roughness: West’s Solveig Barnes wants to set example on the football field” By Erica Harbatkin

 

Presenter and Facilitator                                                            Oct. 1, 2004

                                                UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Dissertation-Year Fellowship Program and President’s

Post-doctoral  Fellowship Program Annual Fall Meeting  

Led workshop titled “ Strategies for Survival: Race and Gender in

the Academy” with approximately 30 participants with co-presenters

Gina Dent and Susan Schwartz

 

                                                Reviewer                                                                                         Mar. 2004

3 Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism:

Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong”

                                                RADICAL WOMEN PUBLICATIONS

                                                Seattle,  WA

 

                                                Participant, Panel Discussion                                                     Nov. 7, 2003

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

                                                Department of Ethnic Studies

                                                Roundtable with Professors Rhacel Parrenas (UC Davis);

Cat Ramirez (UC Santa Cruz); Amy Lonetree (San Francisco State);

Marie Lo (Portland State University);  and post-doctoral fellow

 Jared Sexton (UC Berkeley)

 

Lead coordinator                                                                         Apr. 6, 2002

                                                “Suavecito: the Politics of Bay Area “Asian American” Soul

Music (1965-1975)”

                                                SYMPOSIUM, Berkeley, CA

Proposed and organized event that drew over 300 community and campus members of different generations; Event included panel discussion, exhibit, dancing to two bands, and selling a CD of original music; Composed press releases and fielded interviews with newspaper and radio press; Coordinated, prepared, and moderated five-member panel discussion; Secured three University grants and acquired community-based organizations as co-sponsors; Writing and

producing documentary based on the event.

                                               (http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/3057171.htm)

 

                                                Pacific Time, national radio, KQED                                            May 9 2002

                                                Interviewed for nationally-aired show on Asian Pacific Americans

and soul music.

 

                                                APEX, local radio, KPFA, 94.1                                                               Mar. 28, 2002

                                                Interviewed for local show about Asian American soul music.

                                               

SOCIAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP                                    Spring 2001

                                                Institute for the Study of Social Change, Berkeley, CA

 

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO, Philadelphia, PA                         May 19, 2000

Interviewed for national piece on Asian Americans in sport.

 

                                                PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON THE                                         Dec. 10, 1998

                                                CELERATION OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN          

                                                HISTORY, Berkeley, CA

                                                Testified in front of commission about oral history.

 

 

COMMUNITY WORK          Social responsibility class component                                          Fall 2004 to present                 

                                                Organizations include:  Garment Worker Center,  Pomona Day

                                                Labor Center, IDEPSCA, Vina Danks Middle School,  CAUSE,

Juvenile Detention Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige,  Claremont Tutorial,

Pomona Partners, and Salvation Army- Hero House.

 

Co-facilitator of girl’s group,                                                             Jan. 2000

                                                NETWORK MINISTRIES, San Francisco, CA                                    - Jan. 2002   

                                                Mentor working-class girls of color, ages 7- 10, from a housing

project in the Tenderloin area; provide informal tutoring and

counseling; create a forum for discussion about music,

Asian American history, and racial and gender identity formation.

 

Advisory  member,                                                                              Jun. 2000

Bay Area API Women HIV Working Group                                 -  Jan. 2002 

ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES, Oakland, CA

 

Advisory board member,                                                                  Apr. 2000

CENTER FOR ETHICS & ECONOMIC AND POPULAR            - Jan. 2002

EDUCATION,            

San Francisco, CA

 

Hate Crimes Policy Researcher,                                                           Summer, 1991
CALIFORNIA FAIR EMPLOYMENT AND

HOUSING COMMISSION, San Francisco, CA

 

Researcher on Policy Needs Assessment,                                        Fall, 1990

            ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY

INVOLVEMENT, San Jose, CA

 

Hate Crimes Policy Project Coordinator,                                  Summer, 1989

            ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY

INVOLVEMENT, San Jose, CA

 

Hate Crimes Researcher,                                                         Summer, 1988

ASIAN LAW ALLIANCE, San Jose, CA

 

                      

ACADEMIC                           Dr. Michael Omi, Chair, Department of  Ethnic Studies,

REFERENCES                      University of California, Berkeley

(510) 642 0813   omi@socrates.berkeley.edu

 

Dr. Alice Yang-Murray, Department of History

University of California, Santa Cruz

(831) 459-3967  ayang@cats.ucsc.edu

 

Dr. David Yoo, Department of  History,

Claremont McKenna College

(909) 607 2828 dyoo@claremontmckenna.edu