| MA Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
BA Asian American Studies & History Minor, Cal. State Univ., Northridge |
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| Homepage | |
| Office: Bunche 2169 (Fall '09) | |
| E-mail: paujeanl (at) gmail (dot) com | |
| Curriculum Vitae | |
| Subfield | |
| 20th century US; Asian American Studies; immigration; suburbanization; Los Angeles |
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| Research | |
| My dissertation focuses on, like totally, the San Fernando Valley, but not in any conventional sense. I am captivated by the relationships between marketing and migration, ethnic and community politics and sub/urban and industrial development in the 20th century multiethnic communities of the Valley and how these narratives contribute to, or disrupt, our concepts of urban and suburban.
I also maintain political and academic interests in the contemporary LA labor movement and immigrant rights. |
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| Notes | |
| In a not-too-distant previous lifetime, I researched and wrote on Asian American youth cultural politics and resistance. I wrote my MA thesis, "Journeys in Resistance: Asian American and Filipina American Counter-Stories from a Catholic High School," (UCLA, 2007) under the direction of Professors Don T. Nakanishi, Valerie J. Matsumoto, and Daniel G. Solórzano.
Before joining the History Department I was also a part-time editor for the UC's California Digital Library where I worked on projects related to the California Cultures Digital Archive and the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive. I also worked with the Student Community Projects Unit of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center where I helped complile the latest edition of the UCLA Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Directory. Professional Affiliations: American Historical Association; Organization of American Historians; Association for Asian American Studies; Urban History Association; National Association for Ethnic Studies; Filipino American National Historical Society; Historical Society of Southern California; Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO. |
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| Publications | |
| CHAPTERS, ARTICLES, ESSAYS
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Ronald Takaki: People's Historian," Asian Week (June 2, 2009). Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Adventures in (Pan)Ethnicity: On Cultural Nationalism and Coalition Building along the Educational Pipeline,” in Learning English, Learning America: Latino and Asian American Voices, ed. Gina Masequesmay, Juana Mora, Eunai Kim Shrake, and Ana Sanchez Muñoz (Dubuque: Kendall-Hunt, 2008). Eunai Shrake and Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Understanding Oppositional Behaviors of Asian Americans: Critical Race Theory Approach” in Adolescent Behavior Research Studies, ed. Rene S. Grenell (New York: Nova Publishers, 2007), 9-32. Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Beyond ‘Living La Vida Boba’: Social Space and Transnational, Hybrid Asian American Youth Culture,” Amerasia Journal 32, no. 2 (2006): 89-102. *Profiled in: “Forget Starbucks, Try Boba,” Philippine News, (October 11-17, 2006), B1, B2 COMMUNITY BASED RESEARCH and PUBLIC HISTORY Jolie Chea, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Michael Gonzales, and Christine N. Lee, Compilers & Editors; Meg Thornton, Project Director, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Directory for Los Angeles and Orange Counties, 10th Edition (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2008). Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, "Fifty Years and Counting: A History of the San Fernando Valley JACL Scholarship Program," San Fernando Valley JACL Newsletter (August 2009): 7-8 Cecille Asuncion, Machiko Uyeno, Jean-Paul deGuzman and Amy Emiko Ikeda, Directors/ Writers. Telling Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley, 1910s – 1950s. Produced by the California State University, Northridge Asian American Studies Department and the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center, 2004. * Screened, with companion exhibit, at various Southern California community centers, Pomona College, CSUN, Mission College, Friends of the Lopez Adobe, and the San Fernando Museum of Art and History. REVIEWS Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Solicited Review Essay of Eating Stories: A Chinese Canadian and Aboriginal Potluck and Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature for Amerasia Journal (Forthcoming) Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Review of Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture edited by Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu in Amerasia Journal (Forthcoming) Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Review of Lost and Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration by Karen Ishizuka in Amerasia Journal (Forthcoming). |
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| Grants and Awards | |
| Ben & Alice Hirano Academic Prize: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2008
University Fellowship: Graduate Division, Fall 2007 Eugene V. Cota Robles Doctoral Fellowship: Graduate Division/History Dept., 2007-2011 Master of Arts Thesis Writing Fellowship: Asian American Studies Department, Winter 2007 Rose Eng Chin & Helen Wong Eng Women’s Studies Fellowship: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2007 Ben & Alice Hirano Academic Prize: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006 Graduate Opportunity Fellowship: Graduate Division/Asian American Studies Dept., 2005-2006 Magna cum Laude: California State University, Northridge, 2005 Kenyon Chan Outstanding Leadership Award: Asian American Studies Department, California State University, Northridge, 2005 |
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| Advisors | |
| Professor Janice L. Reiff |
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| Conference Presentations | |
| “American Dream, American Ghetto: The San Fernando Valley, History, and Social Science.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Social Science History Association. 12 November 2009. Long Beach, CA.
“Shaking up the Suburbs: Communities of Color in the San Fernando Valley.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies. 25 April 2009. Honolulu, Hawai’i. Planning Committee Member, "Unlearning the 'American Pacific:' A Symposium on Anti-Colonial Pedagogies." UCLA Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific/ UCLA Asian American Studies Center. 10 April 2009. Los Angeles, CA. “Recognizing the Enemy: Trauma, State Violence, and Whiteness in Nina Revoyr’s Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies. 4 April 2009. San Diego, CA. “For Better Japanese Americans in a Greater San Fernando Valley.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Southwest Oral History Association. 28 March 2009. Los Angeles, CA "The Community Center Buzz: Judo Tournaments, Beauty Queens, and other Multiethnic Moments from 'America’s Suburb.'" Paper presented at the Annual Southwest/ Texas American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference. 26 February 2009. Albuquerque, NM. Panel Chair, "The Asian American Experience." Annual Southwest/ Texas American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference. 26 February 2009. Albuquerque, NM. “New Nurses in a New South: Filipinas, Resistance, and Crises of Professionalization.” Paper presented at the annual UCLA Thinking Gender Conference. Forthcoming (6 February 2009). Los Angeles, CA. Available in the UCLA Center for the Study of Women Thinking Gender Papers (2009). Planning Committee Member, "Beyond Boundaries: Education in Action" (UCLA Asian American Studies Center 40th Anniversary Conference). 15 November 2008. Los Angeles, CA. *Click to view the Daily Bruin conference coverage “‘We’re not just going to sit in the background and pick rice!’: Counternarratives, Resistance, and Asian Americans at a Catholic High School.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian American Studies. 19 April 2008. Chicago, IL. “Self- and Social-Empowerment on Campus: And So We Continue.” “Where We Stand: Ang Ating Hangarin, Ang Ating Natamo [This is what we struggled for, this is where we are]” Southern California Filipina/o American Studies and Student Conference. 5 April 2008. Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA. Co-Organizer, “Underground Undergrads: Teach-In on Immigrant Students and the California DREAM Act.” UCLA Labor Center and IDEAS (Improving Dreams, Equality, Access, and Success) at UCLA. 1 March 2008. Los Angeles, CA. “The Slippery Signifier: Boba and Asian American Youth.” Paper presented at the Annual Southwest/ Texas American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference. 15 February 2008. Albuquerque, NM. |
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