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Nayan B ShahProfessor of American Studies and EthnicityChair Contact Information E-mail: nayansha@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2426 Office: KAP 462 LINKS Curriculum Vitae |
Education |
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 Ph.D. History, University of Chicago, 6/1995
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M.A. History, University of Chicago, 8/1990
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B.A. History, Economics and Religion, Swarthmore College, 5/1988
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Postdoctoral Training |
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Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Institute, University of California Irvine,
Fall
1998
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Project on Cities and Urban Knowledges, New York University, 1997-1998
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Tenure Track Appointments |
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Professor, University of California San Diego , 2012-
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Associate Professor, University of California San Diego, 2000-2012
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Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York Binghamton, 1995-2000
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Visiting and Temporary Appointments |
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Freeman Distinguished Visiting Professor, Wesleyan Univerisity,
Fall
2006
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Description of Research |
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Research Specialties |
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| (Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1995) Asian American Studies; Gender, LGBT and Queer Studies; 19th and 20th century U.S. and Canadian Western History; Medical and Public Health History, Law, Social Justice and Social | |
Publications |
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Book |
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Shah, N. Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
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Shah, N.
(2001).
Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Shah, N.
(1998).
"Sexuality, Identity and the Uses of History". New York: Routledge.
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Book Chapter |
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Shah, N.
(2011).
"Intimate Dependency, Race and Trans-Imperial Migration". The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants New York: New York University Press.
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Shah, N.
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"Public Health and the Mapping of Chinatown". New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
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Shah, N.
(2006).
"Contested Intimacies: Adjudicating 'Hindu Marriage' in U.S. Frontiers". pp. pp. 116-139. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
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Shah, N.
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"Between Oriental Depravity" and Natural Degenerates": Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans". Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of Ame Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Shah, N.
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"Perversity, Contamination and the Dangers of Queer Domesticity". Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
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Shah, N.
(1999).
"Cleansing Motherhood: Hygiene and the Culture of Domesticity in San Francisco’s ‘Chinatown,’ 1875-1939". Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities London: Routledge.
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Journal Article |
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Shah, N.
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"Policing Privacy, Migrants and the Limits of Freedom". Duke University Press. (84-85), pp. pp. 275-284.
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Shah, N.
(2005).
"Between Oriental Depravity" and Natural Degenerates": Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans". American Quarterly.
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Shah, N.
(1996).
" ‘White Label’ et ‘peril jaune’: Race, Genre et Travail a San Francisco au XIXe siecle et au debut du Xxe siecle". Clio: Histoire, Femmes et Societies. (3), pp. 95-115.
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Honors and Awards |
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Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, American Historical Association Pacific Branch Norris and Carol Hundley Award for Most Distinguished Book on any historical subject , 2012-2013
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Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship Recipient, Alexander van Humboldt Humanities Connection Grant, 6/2010-8/2010
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Freeman Foundation Distinguished Scholar Award,
Fall
2006
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University of California Humanities Research Institute Research Group Fellowship Award,
Spring
2006
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Rockefeller Fellowship Recipient, Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, 2002-2003
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Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, Association of Asian American Studies History Book Prize ,
Spring
2003
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University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellowship,
Fall
1998
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Mellon Fellowship, 1994-1995
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Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, 1988-1989
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Service to the Profession |
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Editorships and Editorial Boards |
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Editor, GLQ: Journal Of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 07/01/2011-
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Professional Offices |
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Executive Committee, American Studies Association, 04/2011-
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National Council Elected Member, American Studies Association, 07/2010-07/2013
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