Past Placements

• Laura Barraclough has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor at Yale University’s American Studies Department. Laura Pulido advised her.
• Jungmiwha Bullock will be a  Visiting Scholar in residence at UC Berkeley, Dept. of Ethnic Studies working under the sponsorship of Michael Omi on her book manuscript “Who’s Your Daddy: An International Study on Multiracial Children Orphaned By Military Personnel Abroad.”
• Genevieve Carpio was selected as postdoctoral fellow in Yale’s History Department and with the Race, Ethnicity and Migration Program. She is advised by George Sanchez.
• Jesús J. Hernández has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Latina/o Studies program at Williams College.
• Viet Le was selected as research fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden University.
• Jeb Middlebrook has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at California State University (Dominguez Hills) Sociology Department. Lanita Jacobs advised him.
• Anjali Nath, (PhD 2013) received a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Davis, 2013-14 and will accept an appointment as an Assistant Professor at the American University in Beirut. Sarah Banet-Weiser advised her.
• Phuong Nguyen has accepted a position at Ithaca College, New York, as Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Sociology.
• Margaret Salazar-Porzio has accepted a position as Curator of Latino/a History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.

ASE Doctoral Students

• Crystal Baik (advised by Macarena Gomez Barris) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California Riverside

• Kai Green (advised by Kara Keeling) has received a Sexuality Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University.

• Priscilla Leiva (Advised by George Sanchez) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chican/o History at California State University Los Angeles and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas Austin

• Jessi Quizar (advised by Ruthie Gilmore) has received a Postdoctoral Fellowship in African American Studies at Northwestern University.

ASE Alumni

• Thang Dao, (advised by Viet Nguyen) has been awarded an ACLS Public Affairs Postdoctoral Fellowship at the San Francisco Arts Commission

• Carolyn Dunn (advised by John Carlos Rowe)  has accepted a position as Associate Vice President of Institutional Diversity and Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University.

• Christina Heatherton (advised by Ruthie Gilmore) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut

• Imani Johnson (advised by Dorinne Kondo) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Critical Dance Studies, University of California, Riverside.

• Sharon Luk (advised by Ruthie Gilmore) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon

• Anjali Nath (advised by Sarah Banet Weiser) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Transnational American Studies at the Center for American Studies and Research at the American University in Beirut.

• Abigal Rosas (advised by George Sanchez) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Ethnic Studies at CSU, Stanislaus.

• Perla M Guerrero (advised by George Sanchez) who is currently Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, won a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.

ASE Doctoral Students

• Jennifer DeClue – Assistant Professor, Department for the Study of Women and Gender, Smith College (Advisor: Kara Keeling)

• Treva Ellison, Assistant Professor Departments of Geography and Women’s Studies, Dartmouth College. Next year Treva will be on a postdoctoral fellowship at Dartmouth College before beginning her tenure-track appointment.  (Advisor:  Ruthie Gilmore).

• Jih-Fei Cheng, Assistant Professor, Department of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Scripps College.  (Advisor:  Jack Halberstam)

•  Analena Hope Hassberg, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Department of Ethnic and Women’s Studies, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona (Advisor:  Laura Pulido)

ASE Alumni

• Genevieve Carpio, (PhD, 2013) — Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA. Clay Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University, 2013-2015(Advisor: George Sanchez).

• Anthony Sparks (PhD 2012), Assistant Professor, Department of Radio-TV-Film, College of Communication, California State University, Fullerton (Advisor: Dorinne Kondo)

• Gretel Vera Rosas(PhD 2013)  Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, California State University, Dominguez Hills (Advisor: Macarena Gomez-Barris)

• Nicole Hodges Persley (PhD 2009) received tenure as Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at University of Kansas.  (Advisor: Dorinne Kondo)

• Daniel HoSang (PhD 2007), Associate Professor of ethnic studies and political science, has been appointed Associate Vice President in the Office of the Vice President for Equity and Inclusion and Director of the Center on Diversity and Community at the University of Oregon.

ASE Doctoral Students

• Sophia Azeb received a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Transition Program for Academic Diversity at New York University.
• Umayyah Cable received a Mellon Postdoctoral fellowship in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University.
• Celeste Menchaca accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University
• Stephanie Sparling Williams accepted a 2-year position as John Walsh postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Education at the Yale University Art Gallery.

ASE Alumni

• Wendy Cheng received the Asian American Studies early career award at AAAS.  Cheng has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Scripps College.
• Michelle Commander received tenured as Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Her book Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke Press), was recently published in March 2017.
• Robert Eap accepted a position as Program Manager, In-Prison Program at Defy Ventures, a non-profit organization in San Francisco
• Laura Fugikawa has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor, Study of Gender and Women at Smith College
• Hillary Jenks accepted a position as Coordinator, Graduate Writing Center at University of California, Riverside
• Kai Green accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
• Jesús J. Hernández received a 2016-17 Mellon University Press Diversity Fellowship at MIT Press.
• Anjali Nath accepted a position as Assistant Professor at UC Davis in American Cultures.
• Mark Padoongpatt, currently an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, has accepted a fellowship as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of American Cultures and Asian American Studies Center at UCLA.
• Jessi Quizar has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in Ethnic Studies at Northern Arizona University
• Anthony Bayani Rodriguez accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Johns University in Queens, New York
• Tasneem Siddiqui accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Black Studies, Winston-Salem State University at North Carolina.
• Anton Smith accepted a position as Assistant Professor of African American Literature, Humanities Department, Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
• David Stein has accepted a Lecturer position in the Department of African American Studies and the History Department at UCLA.
• Cam Vu has accepted a position as the Director of Development and Strategic Communications at USC’s School of Public Policy.
• Terrion Williamson’s new book “Scandalize My Name: Black Practice and the Making of Black Social Life” is out from Fordham University Press.  Williamson has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Minnesota in the Department of African American and African Studies with joint appointments with the Departments of Gender, Women & Sexuality and American Studies.
• Yushi Yamazaki has accepted a position as Research Associate of the Center for Global Communication Strategies at Tokyo University, 2016-18.
• Daniel HoSang was named Department Head in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon in July 2016.

ASE Alumni

• Emily Raymundo received a 2-year Asian American Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth University.
• Nic John Ramos received a 2-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship of Race in Medicine and Science at Brown University.

• Kai Green accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Women’s Gender and Sexuality at Williams College.
• Robert Eap is the Associate Director of Curriculum and Programming for the Cornell Prison Education Program.
• Priscilla Leiva accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.
• Cam Vu accepted a position as the Director of Development at the Program for Torture Victims in Los Angeles.
• Abigail Rosas accepted a position as Assistant Professor, Chicano and Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
• Michelle Commander received tenured as Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  Her book, Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic (Duke Press), was published in March 2017.
• Phuong Nguyen‘s new book, Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon, will be out in October 2017.
• Stephanie Sparling Williams accepted a position as an Assistant Curator and Visiting Scholar at the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover.
  
• Daniel HoSang accepted a position as Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University.
  
• Christina Heatherton accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at Barnard College.
  
• Mark Padoongpatt published his first book, Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017)
• Phuong Nguyen published his first book, Becoming Refugee American: The Politics of Rescue in Little Saigon (University of Illinois Press, 2017)