University of California, Riverside
Post-Doc, Ethnic Studies
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
About
In August of 2009, I completed my Ph.D. in the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Currently I am a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside working with Professor Dylan Rodriguez.
My book project Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai‘i Statehood offers a "history of the present" of the complex interplay between different Asian American groups, Native Hawaiians and whites within historical flashpoints of interaction shaped by opposing versions of history. By assembling "race" and "indigeneity" intersectionally, I theorize on the productive tensions created by placing Asian American and Native histories in conversation. This project seeks to defamiliarize the familiar narration of Hawai‘i statehood by tracing the production of this exceptionalist narrative, providing a genealogy of different state apparatuses and series of knowledges of history and race (primitivism and orientalism) that worked together to materialize the historical domination that produced Hawai‘i statehood.
Currently I have two articles forthcoming, one in American Quarterly and another in the Journal of Asian American Studies. I also have a chapter in the anthology Positively No Filipinos Allowed (Temple University Press, 2006) which was reprinted in Asian Settler Colonialism (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008).
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