EDUCATION
University of California, Santa Cruz, September 2006-present
Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian history (modern China)
Advisor: Gail Hershatter
Dissertation project: "The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1966" (in progress)
M.A. paper: "Elite Competitive Sport in the People's Republic of China 1958-1966: The Games of the New Emerging Forces"
Second teaching field: world history
Outside coursework: politics
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, January 2003-May 2006
Graduate coursework in history, Chinese language classes
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, May 2002
B.S. Information Technology, with honors magna cum laude
Concentration: Computer-Based Decision Support Systems
Minors: Global Business, History.
AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2010-2011
University of California Pacific Rim Dissertation Fellowship, 2010-2011 (declined)
UC Santa Cruz, History Department Travel Grant, 2010
University of California Pacific Rim mini-grant, 2008-2009
UC Santa Cruz, Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, 2008
UC Santa Cruz, History Department Pre-dissertation Summer Fellowship, 2008
UC Santa Cruz, Institute for Humanities Research Travel Grant, 2008
Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities, 2002
Eugene V. Fife International Business Scholarship, 2001
Digital Humanities
HASTAC Scholar, 2009-2010
National Endowment for the Humanities, Digital Humanities Start-up Grant, 2009
Technical coordinator for the project: Eternal Flames: Living Memories of the Pacific War
Web Developer, Programmer, and Research Assistant for the project: World History Matters,
awarded the James Harvey Robinson Prize by the American Historical Association for
"outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history," presented January 2007
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of California, Santa Cruz
World War II Memories in the U.S. and Japan, Profs. Alan Christy and Alice Yang, Spring 2009
Europe 1000-1500, Prof. Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Winter 2009
Early Modern East Asia, Profs. Alan Christy and Minghui Hu, Fall 2008
World History 1500-present, Lecturer Katie Simonton, Spring 2007
Revolutionary China, Prof. Gail Hershatter, Winter 2007
The Making of Modern East Asia, Prof. Alan Christy, Fall 2006
PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
"Gender, Women, and Sport in China." Guest lecture: HIEA 138: Women and the Chinese Revolution, UC San Diego, March 2012
"Women and Sport in Twentieth Century China." Presented at the International Women's Day Varieté, Beijing, China, March 2011
"Competitive Socialist Athletes in the People's Republic of China 1955-1965." Presented at the 2010 International Conference on Sport and Society, held in Vancouver, BC, March 8-10, 2010
"Elite Competitive Sport in the People's Republic of China 1958-1966: The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO)." Presented at the all-California modern Chinese history annual graduate student conference, held at the University of California, San Diego, May 29-31, 2009
"The People's Republic of China in Olympic Sports 1958-1966: The Games of the New Emerging Forces." Presented at the European Association of Chinese Studies XVIIth bi-annual conference, "China Centre Stage", August 8, 2008
"Strengthen the body, strengthen the nation: Modern sports, physical culture, and nation-building in Republican China." Guest lecture: History 140B: Revolutionary China, UC Santa Cruz, February 2007
Digital Humanities
"Digital Audio and Video: Best practices for capturing, digitizing, archiving and streaming audio and video." Presented at: Digital History Workshop, Center for History and New Media, October 2005
"Digital Video: Best Practices." Presented at: Digital History Workshop, Center for History and New Media, June 2005
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
"Elite Competitive Sport in the People's Republic of China 1958-1966: The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO)." The Journal of Sport History (forthcoming)
"Fresh from the Archives: The Foreign Ministry Archives of the People's Republic of China." On Dissertation Reviews (http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/936)
"In Search of Old Chinese Films." On The China Beat (http://www.thechinabeat.org/?p=3269), March 18, 2011
"Interview: Eric Gordon on Participatory Chinatown.", On HASTAC (http://hastac.org/blogs/amandaucsc/interview-eric-gordon-participatory-chinatown), March 23, 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Graduate Student Researcher, July 2009-June 2010
Institute for Humanities Research, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
- Technical coordinator for Eternal Flames: Living Memories of the Pacific War, a project with the Center for the Study of Pacific War Memories, UC Santa Cruz
- Programmed and currently manage online database of funding opportunities for faculty and students in the humanities, and update and manage several other Institute websites
- In the process of helping establish a collaborative, cross-disciplinary digital humanities initiative at UC Santa Cruz
Webmaster, Web and Multimedia Developer, January 2003-May 2006
Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
- Managed and did the programming for all technical aspects of the educational website World History Matters, including interactive, web-based modules in Flash and PHP/MySQL database development
- Interviewed and filmed historians, conducted research, prepared online media modules, and assisted in content development for world history sites
- Participated in and contributed to writing and editing grant proposals, including GULAG: Many Days, Many Lives , funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Managed an apache server and a computer lab (PCs and Macs), made purchasing decisions for all computer hardware and software
- Selected web projects: World History Matters (http://worldhistorymatters.org), History Matters (http://historymatters.gmu.edu), Teaching American History (http://chnm.gmu.edu/tah/)
ACTIVITES & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
H-Sport (Web editor and Conference Report editor, 2011-present)
Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster, UCSC (Coordinator and Conference Organizer 2008-2009)
Association for Asian Studies
European Association of Chinese Studies
Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
LANGUAGES & STUDY ABROAD
Chinese
Visiting Senior Student, Beijing Sport University, Beijing, China, November 2010-November 2011
International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2007-June 2008
Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China, July-August 2006
Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China, July-August 2005
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, September 2004-May 2005, Chinese language classes
French
Langue Onze, Toulouse, France, June 2006, July 2007
W.T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA 1994-1998, advanced placement (AP)
Marymount International School, Paris, France 1989-1993
German
Die Neue Schule, Berlin, Germany, November 2011-April 2012
Other
Global Business in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou, Virginia Tech, Summer 2001
Studied applications of global business practices through visits to companies and several factories in Tokyo, Japan, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou, China
Final Research Paper: "The New Japanese Woman: Single Status More Appealing"
COMPUTER & NEW MEDIA SKILLS
Programming & Databases: PHP/MySQL, HTML/CSS, XML/XSL, Flash, ColdFusion, ASP, Java, C, Cobol, VB, Oracle PL/SQL, Access, Filemaker
Software & Media: MS Office, Photoshop, QuickTime, QTVR, Final Cut Pro, Peak Audio, SoundEdit, Cleaner, Compressor, Sorenson Squeeze
Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista, Unix