New Publications
- Kathleen S. Yep: "API Women, Faith, Action: Oral Histories of Asian Pacific Islander
Women and Their Faith-Based Activism" funded by the California Council of Humanities'
California Story Fund. Check out the website,
live as of January 2012.
This digital community oral history project uncovers and documents through interviews,
digital archives and public forums, the stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander
women who, informed by their spirituality and faith traditions, were engaged in the U.S.
movement for civil and human rights from the 1960s through the 1990s.
Books
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Articles/Book Chapters (2010-2011)
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Wei-Chin Hwang
- 2010. Hwang, W., Wood, J. J., & Fujimoto, K. Acculturative Family Distancing
(AFD) and depression in Chinese American Families. Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, 78(5), 655-677.
Hung Cam Thai
- 2011. "Return Visits as Global Magnified Moments for Transmigrants." Invited for
publication in Seeing Emotions Through Families: Essays in Honor of Arlie Russell
Hochschild. Edited by Anita Garey and Karen Hansen. Rutgers University Press.
Pp. 250-261
- 2010. "Fieldwork in a Transnational Era." Invited for volume edited by Niki Jones
and Sarah Fenstermaker. New York. Routledge. Pp. 70-80
Kathleen S. Yep
- 2011. "To Reform or To Empower: Asian American Studies and Social Justice Service
Learning" in Democratic Dilemmas of Service-Learning: Curricular Strategies for
Success. C. Cress and D. Donahue (eds.) (Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing).
- 2011. "Why Are You So Mad? Mediating Racial Conflict in Service-Learning Classrooms"
in Democratic Dilemmas of Service-Learning: Curricular Strategies for Success.
C. Cress and D. Donahue (eds.) (Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing).
- 2010. "Playing Rough and Tough: Chinese American Women Basketball Players in the
1930s and 1940s." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies.
Conference Presentations/Invited Talks (2010-2011)
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Sharon Goto
- AARC Panel, "The Role of Social Capital Amidst Tiger Parenting"
Wei-Chin Hwang
- April 2011. How do we culturally adapt psychotherapy? Let's get down to the specifics.
Invited talk scheduled for the meeting of the Western Psychological Association (WPA) Conference,
Los Angeles, CA.
- April 2011. Culturally adapting therapy for Asian Americans: Real world implementation.
Invited presentation given at Pomona College, Asian American psychology (for Professor Sharon
Goto), Claremont, CA.
- December 2010. Cognitive-behavioral therapy training for Chinese Americans: Discussions on
improving treatment effectiveness? 7-hour focus group and workshop given at Richmond
Area Multi-Services (RAMS), San Francisco, CA.
- December 2010. Multicultural issues in treating ethnic minorities. Invited presentation given at
Claremont McKenna College, Abnormal Psychology Class (for Professor Dan Krauss), Claremont, CA.
- November 2010. Culturally modifying therapy for ethnic minorities. Invited presentation given at
Pitzer College, Abnormal Psychology Class (for Professor Rick Tsujimoto), Claremont, CA.
- November 2010. Culturally adapted cognitive-behavioral therapy for Chinese Americans: Reformulation
and advancement. 7-hour focus group and workshop given at Asian Pacific Family Center
(APFC), Rosemead, CA.
- October 2010. Culturally adapted cognitive-behavioral therapy for Chinese Americans: Reformulation
and advancement. 7-hour focus group and workshop given at Richmond Area Multi-Services
(RAMS), San Francisco, CA.
- September 2010. Cognitive-behavioral therapy training for Chinese Americans: Discussions on
improving treatment effectiveness? 7-hour focus group and workshop given at Asian Pacific
Family Center (APFC), Rosemead, CA.
- May 2010. Culturally adapting psychotherapy. Invited presentation given at Mental Health
Services Act (MHSA) Training Institute (It takes a village: Culturally competent and
community-based approaches in working with Asian and Pacific Islander Americans), San
Francisco, CA.
YouYoung Kang
- March 29, 2011. Panel Discussant: "Race to Nowhere," Scripps College Humanities Institute.
- November 4-7, 2010. "Legacies of the WPA on the American Musical Landscape." Annual Meeting of the American
Musicological Society, Indianapolis. (Also presented at the Fall Meeting of the Pacific Southwest Chapter of
the American Musicological Society, Claremont, October 2010).
Warren Liu
- Two papers, both on the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi, presented at the Modern Language Association
Annual Convention (Jan 2011, Los Angeles) and at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual
Conference (May 2011, New Orleans)
Ming-Yuen Ma
- Attended and spoke at three international conferences: the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
conference in Los Angeles; the International Experimental Media Congress in Toronto, Canada; and the
8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, held at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, where I acted
as a respondent for a panel titled Asian Gay Circuits: Rerouting Media, Mobilities, and Intimacies.
Lynne Miyake
- June 17-19, 2011. Discussant, "Crossing Linguistic and Cultural Borders," Association for Asian Studies
Pacific Coast/Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Claremont.
- Jne 17-19, 2011. Chair of two panels: "Japanese & Japanese American Cultural Stereotypes and Identities"
and "Art and Culture in WW II and Its Aftermath," Association for Asian Studies Pacific
Coast/Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Claremont.
Hung Cam Thai
- February 2011. "Economic Heroes of the Vietnamese Diaspora." Invited lecture at
California Polytechnic University, Pomona.
- August 2010. "Financial Responsibility and Monetary Gift Giving in the Vietnamese Transnational
Culture of Care." Invited paper, plenary session at the annual meetings of the American
Sociological Association, Atlanta.
- August 2010. "Inflexible Citizenship among Vietnamese Diasporic Subjects." Invited paper,
plenary session at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta.
Linus Yamane
- June 2011. Present a paper titled "The Labor Market Experience of Vietnamese and East European
Immigrants" at the 86th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International
in San Diego, California.
Grants/Awards (2010-2011)
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Wei-Chin Hwang
- 2010. Claremont McKenna College Faculty Summer Research Grant. Treatment adherence and fidelity
in community mental health interventions.
Lynne Miyake
- Fall 2010. Pomona College Research Grant for: 1) Japan trip to interview a manga artist, view
museum exhibits, and meet with my collaborators on a new project on the Japanese deployment of soft
power; 2) fees to pay for the editing of my article in Japanese, for ground work on soft power,
and for obtaining permission and use of manga images in my "The Ideal Object of Desire" article.
- Spring 2011. Pomona College Wig Grant to restructure my Jpnt 179 "Graphically Speaking: Japanese
Manga and Its Buds" course and to fund a lecture/demonstration by award winning comics artist Stan
Sakai of Usagi Yojimbo fame.
- March 31-April 3, 2011. Pomona College Travel Grant to Association for Asia Studies/International
Convention of Asia Scholars and the Association for the Teachers of Japanese, Honolulu.
