Kathleen S. Yep, Ph.D.
SELECTED VITA INFORMATION
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EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor 2004 to present
Intercollegiate
Department of Asian American Studies
and
Sociology (Joint Appointment)
UC
President’s Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2004
Department
of History
National
fellowship competition, one of
approximately
16 for entire UC system
EDUCATION
Ph. D.
COMPARATIVE
ETHNIC STUDIES
Sociology/
Gender Studies
M.A.
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
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
“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,
“The Hong Wah Kues vs. the
comparative constructions of racialized masculinity”
With
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:
REVIEW ACTIVITIES JOURNAL OF SPORT AND SOCIAL ISSUES
WOMEN’S
STUDIES INTERNATIONAL FORUM
SEX ROLES
PROFESSIONAL Interviewed Sep.
16, 2005
ACTIVITIES
“Necessary roughness: West’s Solveig Barnes wants to set
example on the football field” By Erica Harbatkin
Presenter
and Facilitator Oct. 1, 2004
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
Participant,
Panel Discussion Nov. 7, 2003
Department
of Ethnic Studies
Roundtable
with Professors Rhacel Parrenas (UC Davis);
Cat
Ramirez (UC
Marie Lo (
Jared Sexton (UC Berkeley)
Lead
coordinator Apr. 6, 2002
“Suavecito:
the Politics of Bay Area “Asian American” Soul
Music
(1965-1975)”
SYMPOSIUM,
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,
NATIONAL
PUBLIC RADIO,
Interviewed
for national piece on Asian Americans in sport.
PRESIDENT’S COMMISSION ON THE
Dec. 10, 1998
CELERATION OF WOMEN IN AMERICAN
HISTORY,
Testified
in front of commission about oral history.
COMMUNITY
WORK Social responsibility class component Fall 2004 to present
Organizations include:
Juvenile
Detention Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige,
Co-facilitator
of girl’s group, Jan. 2000
NETWORK MINISTRIES,
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,
Advisory
board member, Apr. 2000
CENTER
FOR ETHICS & ECONOMIC AND POPULAR - Jan. 2002
EDUCATION,
Hate Crimes Policy
Researcher, Summer, 1991
HOUSING
COMMISSION,
Researcher on Policy
Needs Assessment, Fall, 1990
ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT,
Hate Crimes Policy
Project Coordinator, Summer,
1989
ASIAN AMERICANS FOR COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT,
Hate Crimes Researcher, Summer, 1988
ASIAN LAW
ACADEMIC Dr. Michael
Omi, Chair, Department of
Ethnic Studies,
REFERENCES
(510)
642 0813 omi@socrates.berkeley.edu
Dr.
Alice Yang-Murray, Department of History
(831) 459-3967
ayang@cats.ucsc.edu
Dr.
David Yoo, Department of History,
(909)
607 2828 dyoo@claremontmckenna.edu