Annie Isabel Fukushima, ABD / Ph.D. Candidate
Ethnic Studies Department
Office: 644 Barrows Hall
Email: anniefukushima@gmail.com
Office hours: By appointment
Annie Isabel Fukushima's dissertation, Asian and Latina Migrants in the United States and the Invisible / Visible Paradigm of Human Trafficking addresses a critical question: who is the trafficked person and how has she/he come to matter in the 21st century? The trafficked person has come to matter through a diversity of discourses across various fields. As human trafficking is constituted by the legal interpretations, practices, and institutions such as non-governmental, governmental, health care, education, faith based, law enforcement and legal institutions, why does it now matter nearly 150 years after U.S. abolition of slavery? To locate “who” a trafficked person is, I employ an interdisciplinary method that incorporates sociology, legal studies, and media studies. Due to the transnational elements of human trafficking discourse and anti-trafficking strategies, I offer a comparative framing of Asians and Latinas/os trafficked into the United States.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/anniefukushima
Education
M.A. (Ethnic Studies), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. High Honors (American Studies and English), University of Hawai`i, ManoaResearch interests
Transnational Feminisms, Gender & Migration, and Visual Culture and Social MovementsCourses
Teaching as an Instructor
Instructor. “Immigration, Racialization, & Globalization,” Ethnic Studies 103, Summer 2011, University of California, Berkeley
Interdisciplinary and theoretical survey of discourse on race, gender, sexuality, immigration, and globalization
Adjunct Instructor, “Asian American History up to 1945,” Ethnic Studies 30, Spring and Summer, 2011, Laney College, Oakland California
Interdisciplinary and history course on Asian / Americans and immigration
Adjunct Instructor, “Asian Americans in Film,” Ethnic Studies 45, Spring 2011, Laney College, Oakland California
Film studies and Asian American history course
Graduate Student Instructor / Teaching Assistant
Graduate Student Instructor, “The Southern Border,” Ethnic Studies/Geography/Education 159.
Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, University of California, Berkeley
Interdisciplinary course that traces the origins and present-day implications of the southern border
Graduate Student Instructor. “Asian American Studies and Film Studies,” Asian American Studies 171
Fall 2009, University of California, Berkeley
Historicized Asian American representation in film and film-making class
Graduate Student Instructor. “An introduction Asians in the United States,” Asian American Studies 20
Sprin
Survey of history and methods course on Asian American history
Graduate Student Instructor. “An introduction Chicano/Latino History,” Chicano Studies 50
Fall 2006 and Fall 2007, University of California, Berkeley
Survey and introduction to Chicano Studies
Graduate Student Instructor. “Introduction to Race in the United States, University of California,” Ethnic Studies/American Cultures 21
Summer 2006, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Assistant, “U.S. imperialism,” American Studies
Fall 2003, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Selected publications
Peer Reviewed Annie Fukushima. “Beyond Moments of Disjuncture: The Visual Culture of the Sex Trafficked Asian (Woman).” Phoebe: Gender & Cultural Critiques. Vol. 20, No. 2, (Fall 2008): SUNY, Oneonta. Encyclopedia Contributions Annie Fukushima. “‘Comfort Women.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Asian American Issues Today. Edith Chen and Grace Yoo, Eds. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2009. –. “Coerced Migration.” Battleground: Immigration. Judith Warner, Ed. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008. Forthcoming Annie Fukushima and Cindy Liou. “Weaving Theory and Practice: Anti-Trafficking Partnerships and the Fourth ‘P’ in the Human Trafficking Paradigm.” Human Trafficking is Global Slavery. Program on Human Rights, Stanford University. 2012. Annie Fukushima. “Korean Immigrant Women in America,” “Role of Asian Americans in Anti-Human Trafficking Movement,” and “Asian Americans and the Comfort Women Issue.” Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History. California: ABC-Clio, 2012. Other Publications Ellen-Rae Cachola, Lizelle Fistejo, Annie Fukushima, Gwyn Kirk, and Sabina Perez. “Gender and U.S. Bases in Asia-Pacific.” Foreign Policy In Focus Policy Report. Washington D.C.: FPIF. (March 14, 2008) http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5069 Annie Fukushima. “Introduction.” Speaking Truths: The Poetics of Defining Human Slavery. California: Achiote Press, 2007.
Honors & Awards
Dean’s Summer Fellowship, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2011
Founder Region Fellowship, Soroptimist International, 2009 - 2010
U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship, U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and The Council of American Overseas Research Centers, June 11th, 2008 to August 23rd, 2008
Dean’s Normative-time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 - 2009
Mentored Research Fellowship, Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2007 – 2008
Awards
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2010 – 2011
Mentored Research Award, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley, 2005
Brown Denney Award for Scholarly Excellence, 2004