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

Apr. 2009

 "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)