Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz

Last revised: October 2007

EDUCATION
1976 B.A. Mathematics University of California Berkeley 1976
1979 M.A. Sociology University of California Berkeley 1979
1986 Ph.D. Sociology University of California Berkeley 1986

HONORS AND AWARDS
2005 Program Committee, American Studies Association 2005 2006
2003 Co-Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance and community 2003 2006
2002 President, Association for Asian American Studies 2002 2004
2001 Executive Board Member, Association for Asian American Studies 2001 2002
1997 UC Humantities Research Institute Fellow 1997 1998
1994 Outstanding Book Award. 1994

WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES IN PROGRESS
Under Review "Form and Emptiness: Globalization and Buddhism" Amerasia No pagination [journal article]
In Progress Return Hawai'i: Intimacies of Self and Nation No pagination [book]
In Progress Comparing Multiculturalism(s) in an Age of Globalization: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. Co-edited with the UCHR Humanities Research Institute Group on Multiculturalism. No pagination [book review]
In Progress with Shirley Swedlow and Patrick Lapid. "Nature and Civilization: The Pokemon Challenge." No pagination [journal article]
In Progress "The Future of Profane Theory: Race and Asian Americans," College Board and Woodrow Wilson Foundation. No pagination [chapter]
In Progress "Native Nationalism an Incommensurability" Comparing Multiculturalism(s) in an Age of Globalization: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States. No pagination [chapter]
PUBLISHED RESEARCH - since 1998
2007 "The Praxis of Interpretation and Theory: Participatory Action Research," Tim Fong (ed.) The Handbook of Research in Ethnic Studies. Alta Mira Press. No pagination [ chapter ]
2006 "Faith, Race and Nationalism,". Journal of Asian American Studies. No pagination [ journal article ]
2004 "Afterward," Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists. Kevin Kumashiro (ed.) Hawthorne Press 131-133 [ chapter ]
2004 "Native Hawaiians and Social Welfare," Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor (eds.) Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. ABC-CLIO Press 493-495 [ chapter ]
2004 "Buddhism and Faith-Based Approaches to Welfare," Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor (eds.) Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. ABC-CLIO Press 120-123 [ journal article ]
2004 "Buddhism and Faith-Based Approaches to Welfare," Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor (eds.) Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy. ABC-CLIO Press 120-123 [ chapter ]
2002 "Comment on West and Fenstermaker's "Doing Gender," edited by Candace West and Sara Fenstermaker Doing Gender, Doing Difference Routledge New York 85-87 [ chapter ]
2002 "Japanese American Families," edited by Ronald L. Taylor Minority Families in the United States: A Multicultural Perspective Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, NJ third edition 164-180 [ chapter ]
2001 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," Reprinted,(fourth edition), edited by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill-Collins. (Reprinted) Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology Wadsworth Belmont, CA 480-487 [ journal article ]
2000, Oct 14 co-authored with Manuel Pastor "All One People: We Can't Let Fear, Hatred Consume Our Lives," Community Forum, Santa Cruz Sentinel No pagination [ other ]
2000 "From Discrimination to Affirmative Action: Facts in the Asian American External Admissions Controversy" translation by Kudo Kouiji in Kouchiusyugi no Syakaigaku. edited by Hidemi Tairi and Nobutoshi Nakagawa. Originally published in Social Problems Sekaishisosha Kyoto, Japan 37, No. 4 271-301 [ chapter ]
2000 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," edited by Min Zhou and James V. Gatewood. (Reprinted) Race, Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader New York New York University Press 547-560 No pagination [ journal article ]
2000 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," edited by Jean Yu-wen Shen Wu and Min Song. (Reprinted) Asian American Studies: A Reader Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, NJ 471-483 [ journal article ]
1999 "Japanese Americans: Stories About Race in America" (co-authored with Lynn Fujiwara)edited by Gary Dworkin and Rosalind Dworkin. The Minority Report: An Introduction to Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Relations. (third edition) Harcourt Brace San Diego, CA 297-320 [ chapter ]
1999 Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools. (September) American Political Science Review 93, No. 3 721 [ book review ]
1999 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," edited by Timothy P. Fong, and Larry H. Shinagawa. (Reprinted) Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives Prentice Hall New York 354-361 No pagination [ journal article ]
1998, Winter "Forget Postcolonialism: Sovereignty and Self-Determination in Hawaii". Colorlines 5-8 [ journal article ]
1998 "Community Action Program," edited by Larry Shumsky Encyclopedia of Urban America ABC-CLIO Press Santa Barbara, CA 167 [ chapter ]
1998 with Michael Omi "Situating Asian Americans in Political Discourse," edited by Michael Rogin and Robert Post Race Representation: Affirmative Action Zone Books New York 271-280 [ chapter ]
1998 "Racism" edited by Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, and Gloria Steinem an essay entry for the Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Houghton Mifflin Boston 491-493 [ chapter ]
1998 The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics. 2nd edition with a new introduction. Rutgers University Press New Brunswick No pagination [ book ]
1998 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," edited by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill-Collins. Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology. (third edition, reprinted) Belmont, CA 452-460 [ journal article ]
1998 "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," edited by Franklin Ng. (Reprinted) Asian American Women and Gender GarlandNew York 193-209 [ journal article ]
CREATIVE ACTIVITY - since 1998
2007 "Why We Practice: Buddhism, Teaching and the University" Organizer and presenter at a panel discussion., 50, UC Santa Cruz [other ] May 9, 2007
2006 "The Genjo Koan and Discourse of Diversity", 50, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center Invited Talk [other Public Talk] August 20 August 20
2006 Buddhist Practice and Diversity, Green Gulch Farm Invited [other invited lecture] April 14, 2006
OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - since 1998
2007 Keynote Address Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Oakland [PublicLecture] 2007, May
2004 Presidential Address, "On Affect," Association for Asian American Studies, Boston [PapersPresented] April, 2004
2004 Presidential Address AAAS, Boston [PublicLecture] April 2003
2004 On American Idols, Asian Americans, Cornell University [PublicLecture] April 2004
2003 Presidential Address, "On the State of Asian American Studies," Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco [PapersPresented] March, 2003
2003 Presidential Address Association for Asian American Studies [PublicLecture] April 2003
2002 "Faith, Race and Nationalism," Association of Asian American Studies, Salt Lake City [PapersPresented] April, 2
2002 Oberlin College [PublicLecture]
2002 President, Association for Asian American Studies [ProfessionalAssoc] 2002 2004
2000 "Nationalism in Hawai'i," Association of Asian American Studies, Tempe [PapersPresented] April, 2000
2000 "Rethinking the Pacific," Association of Asian American Studies, Tempe [PapersPresented] April, 2000
2000 Advisory Board, Center for Women's Policy Studies [Other] 2000 Present
2000 Committee on the Journals, American Sociological Association [ProfessionalAssoc] 2000 2002
1999 "Conversations within Hawaiian Nationalism: Rearticulating Multicultural Discussions of Strategy," American Studies Association, Montreal [PapersPresented] November, 1999
1999 Keynote Address, Diversity, Democracy, and the Disciplines. Sponsored by Educational Testing Service and The Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University. [PublicLecture] May, 1999
1999 Keynote Address, Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, San Francisco. [PublicLecture] March, 1999
1999 Executive Board, Association for Asian American Studies [ProfessionalAssoc] 1999 2000

SERVICE ACTIVITIES - since 1998
2007 Latin American and Latino Studies, 2 search Committee [Division] September 2007 January 2007
2007 Ad Hoc Committee, Chair [Senate] 2007
2004 Graduate Director [Dept] 2004 2006
2004 Executive Committee [Dept] 2004 present
2004 Ad Hoc Committee [Senate] 2004 2005
2003 Ad Hoc [Dept] 2003 2004
2003 Co-Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community. [Other Campus] 2003 2006
2003 Ad Hoc Committee [Senate] 2003 2004
2002 Ad Hoc [Dept] 2002 2003
2002 Ad Hoc Committee [Senate] 2002 2003
2002 Introductory comments and Moderator, CJTC Spring Lecture, Urvashi Vaid. [Other] April 29
2002 Moderator, Social Justice and Reconciliation. [Other Campus] Feb 1
2001 Ad Hoc Committees [Senate] 2001 2002
2001 Moderator, Race and the Crisis, Holy Cross Church. [Other Campus] Nov 14, 2001
2001 Moderator, Race Rave, Stevenson College. [Other Campus] Feb 2
2001 Review Committee, Humanities and Social Sciences, UC Riverside. (I was unable to complete this due to illness.) [Other Campus] 2001
2001 Review Committee for Social Science Requirement (Category IV) in Undergraduate Education, UC Irvine. Committee chaired by Professor John Dombrink (UCI). [Other Campus] 2001
2001 Executive Board, Santa Cruz Zen Center [Other] 2001 Present
2001 Work Leader, Santa Cruz Zen Center [Other] 2001 Present
2000 Ad Hoc [Dept] 2000 2001
2000 Undergraduate Education Committee, Spring Quarter [Dept] 2000 2001
2000 Associate Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community. [Division] 2000 2003
2000 Ad Hoc Committees [Senate] 2000 2001
2000 Associate Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, UC Santa Cruz. [Other Campus] 2000 present
1999 Ad Hoc [Dept] 1999 2000
1999 Social Sciences Division, Committee on Academic Personnel. [Division] 1999 2000
1999 Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid [Senate] 1999 2000
1999 Search Committee, Humanities Research Institute Director [Other Campus] 1999 2000
1999 Interviews and Survey of Satisfaction Among Ladder Rank faculty (with Professor Carolyn Martin Shaw) for the Chancellor's office. [Other Campus] 1999 2000
1999 CSU/UC Joint Forum on Diversity [Other] 1999 2000
1998 Ad Hoc [Dept] 1998 1999
1998 Committee to Draft the Report/Proposal for the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community. [Division] 1998 1999
1998 President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee [Other Campus] 1998 1999