Job title:
Professor of the Graduate School
Department:
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Research interests:
Asian American literary and cultural studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist Studies, Korean American Studies
Role:
Awards & Honors:
San Francisco Asian Pacific American Heritage Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012
Association for Asian American Studies Lifetime Achievement Award, 2011
Organization of American Historians -Japan Association of American Studies Short Term Residency, Waseda University, June 2008
Featured Writer, Berkeley Writers at Work, UC Berkeley, 18 October 2006
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Award for Excellence in Education, California State Assembly, May 2006
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004
Honorary Doctorate of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, May 2004
“A.100: the 100 most influential Asian Americans of the past decade,” A. Magazine, 1999
Global Korea Award, 1998
Hall of Outstanding Women at Cal, 1995
Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 1995
“Profiles in Excellence,” KGO-TV, June 27, 1993 and December 26, 1993
Jessie Bernard Wise Woman Award, Center for Women Policy Studies, 1991
Woman Warrior Award, Pacific Asian Women’s Bay Area Coalition, 1987
Honorary Member, Golden Key National Honor Society, 1987
Leadership Award, Second Annual Women’s Leadership Conference, San Francisco Women’s Center, 1983
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