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JEAN-PAUL R. DEGUZMAN
University of California
Center for New Racial Studies
UC Santa Barbara, 2201 North Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
818/720-7250 (mobile)
[email protected]
http://jpdeguzman.weebly.com
CURRENT POSITIONS
Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Center for New Racial Studies, Fall 2014-present
Lecturer, UC Santa Barbara Department of Asian American Studies, Spring 2015-present
EDUCATION
PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014
MA, History, UCLA, 2010
MA, Asian American Studies, UCLA, 2007
BA, Magna cum Laude, Asian American Studies, Minor in History,
California State University, Northridge, 2004
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
UCLA Department of History
Teaching Fellow/Instructor: 2011-2012, Summer 2013
Teaching Assistant to Associate: 2009-2010
UCLA Undergraduate Education Initiatives – General Education Cluster Program
Teaching Fellow/Instructor: Spring 2011
Teaching Associate: Fall 2010, Winter 2011
UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Research Assistant: Spring 2009-Fall 2013
UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
Teaching Assistant: Fall 2006, Spring 2007
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Lectures (as Lecturer)
Japanese American Studies, UCSB Asian American Studies Department, Spring 2015
Undergraduate Seminars (as Instructor/Teaching Fellow)
Serve the People! Rebels and Their Movements in Asian American History, UCLA History Department,
Summer 2013
To Serve the People (Not the Model Minority Myth): Historical Perspectives on Asian American
Resistance and Radicalism, UCLA History Department, Winter 2012 and Spring 2012
“A Touch of Danger:” Romance, Rebellion, and Other Interracial Encounters in Modern Los Angeles,
UCLA History Department, Fall 2011; Undergraduate Education Initiatives’ Los Angeles General
Education Cluster, Spring 2011
Undergraduate Discussion Sections (as Teaching Assistant to Associate)
Los Angeles: The Cluster: UCLA Undergrad. Education Initiatives, Fall 2010-Winter 2011
History of the US and Its Colonial Origins-20th Century, UCLA History Dept., Spring 2010
History of the US and Its Colonial Origins-19th Century, UCLA History Dept., Winter 2010
Introduction to Asian Civilizations: Southeast Asian Crossroads, UCLA History Dept., Fall 2009
Asian American and Pacific Islander History, UCLA Asian American Studies Dept., Spring 2007
Asian American History/Writing Composition, UCLA Asian American Studies Dept., Fall 2006
Undergraduate Lectures (as Reader)
Asian American Education, UCLA Asian American Studies Dept., Winter 2009 and Spring 2008
History of Asians in America, UCLA History Department, Fall 2008
RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Postdoctoral Fellowship ($42,000 + $1,000 Research Fund): UC Center for New Racial Studies,
2014-2015; Additional $1,500 research fund from the UCSB Department of Asian American Studies
Haynes Lindley Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000): John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes
Foundation, 2012-2013
Academic Year Tuition Fellowship (Haynes Lindley Fellowship Supplemental Award; $14,617.89):
UCLA Department of History, 2012-2013
Research Grant ($500): University of California Humanities Research Institute/ UC California Studies
Consortium, 2012-2013
Wallis Annenberg Research Grant ($500): University of Southern California, Edward L. Doheny, Jr.
Memorial Library, 2012
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Tritia Toyota Asian Pacific American Community Research Fellowship ($3,000): UCLA Asian
American Studies Center, 2011
Research Fellowship ($500): Autry National Center of the American West, 2011
Research Grant ($1,348): UCLA Institute of American Cultures/Ralph J. Bunche Center for African
American Studies, 2010-2011
Research Grant ($2,000): UC Center for New Racial Studies, 2010-2011
James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Fellowship ($500): UCLA Charles Young Research Library,
2010
Eugene V. Cota Robles Doctoral Fellowship (Multi-year fee remissions, 1-year research mentorship, 1year TA-ship): UCLA Graduate Division, 2007-2010, 2011-2012
MA Thesis Writing Fellowship ($2,296 and Fee Remission): UCLA Department of Asian American
Studies, 2007
Rose Eng Chin and Helen Wong Eng Asian Pacific American Women Studies Fellowship ($2,000):
UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship ($12,000 and Fee Remission): UCLA Graduate Division, 20052006
RESEARCH PRIZES AND AWARDS
Minoru Yasui Memorial Scholarship ($1,000): National Japanese American Citizens League, 2013
Hiram Wheeler Edwards Prize for the Study of WWII Internment Camps and Japanese Americans
($500): UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2013. Awarded for “‘Look, Even God in Heaven is
Crying for Us:’ The Hidden History of Incarceration in ‘America’s Suburb.’”
Hiram Wheeler Edwards Prize for the Study of WWII Internment Camps and Japanese Americans
($500): UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2012. Awarded for “Race, Community and Activism
in the Urban Periphery: How Japanese Americans and African Americans Claimed and Contested
Southern California's San Fernando Valley at Mid-Century.”
Graduate Scholarship ($2,500): UCLA Faculty Women’s Club, 2011
Sarah Jackson Award ($500): Western History Association, 2010
President’s Travel Award ($150): Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, 2010
Travel Subvention: UC Santa Barbara Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, 2010
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Ben and Alice Hirano Paper Prize in Asian American History ($500): UCLA Asian American Studies
Center, 2008. Awarded for “For Better Japanese Americans in a Greater San Fernando Valley:
Community Building and Civic Engagement in ‘America’s Suburb.’”
First Year Stipend ($2,000): UCLA History Department, 2007
Ben and Alice Hirano Paper Prize in Asian American History ($500): UCLA Asian American Studies
Center, 2006. Awarded for “‘We’re Not Going to Sit in the Background and Pick Rice!’ Anthropological
and Critical Race Theory Approaches to Asian American Student Resistance.”
Kenyon Chan Outstanding Leadership Award: CSUN Dept. of Asian American Studies, 2005
TEACHING HONORS AND GRANTS
UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award ($2,500 award; $18,000 Dissertation Fellowship; $500
research stipend): UCLA Academic Senate, 2013-2014
Laura Kinsey Outstanding Teaching Prize ($2,000): UCLA History Department, 2013
Teaching Fellow: UCLA Department of History, Summer Session A 2013
Teaching Fellow: UCLA Department of History, 2011-2012
Instructional Media Mini-Grant ($200): UCLA Office of Instructional Development, 2012
Teaching Fellow: UCLA Undergraduate Education Initiatives, GE Cluster Program, 2010-2011
Promising Future Teacher Award: CSUN Department of Asian American Studies, 2004
MISCELLANEOUS GRANTS AND AWARDS
Service Award: Japanese American Citizens League, San Fernando Valley Chapter, 2015
Program Grant ($792): UCLA Graduate Student Association Discretionary Fund, 2012 (to support the
UCLA Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and Chapters
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Finding Buddha in the Barrio: Reflections on the Unanticipated
Consequences of Archival Research,” UCLA Historical Journal (forthcoming).
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Race, Community, and Activism in Greater Los Angeles: Japanese Americans,
African Americans and the Contested Spaces of Southern California,” in The Nation and its Peoples:
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Citizens, Denizens, Migrants, ed. John S.W. Park and Shannon Gleeson (New York: Routledge, 2014),
29-48.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “The Twenty Year Tale of Interpreting a Multiethnic Urban Uprising:
Towards an Historiography of Sa-I-Gu,” Amerasia Journal 38:1 (2012): 175-192.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Alfred P. Flores, Jr., Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, Kehaulani
Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren, “The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United
States,” Amerasia Journal 37:3 (2011): 149-161.
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 Science Publishers, 2007), 9-32.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Beyond ‘Living La Vida Boba’: Social Space and Transnational, Hybrid Asian
American Youth Culture,” Amerasia Journal 32:2 (2006): 89-102.
Public History and Exhibitions
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “The San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past: Unexpected Communities in
‘America’s Suburb,’” essay in the “Perspectives on African American History” series, The Black Past:
Remembered and Reclaimed, ed. Quintard Taylor, Jr. (Spring 2011):
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/list.
Mary Uyematsu Kao, Jolie Chea, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Christina Aujean Lee, and Stephanie Santos,
“Historical Timeline of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center,” in the exhibition 40 Years of
Breaking Ground: UCLA Asian American Studies, 1969-2009, Mary Uyematsu Kao and Marjorie Lee,
curators (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center and Lawrence Clark Powell Library,
2009).
Cecile Asuncion, Machiko Uyeno, Jean-Paul deGuzman, and Amy Ikeda, writers and directors, Telling
Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley, 1910s–1950s. California State University,
Northridge Asian American Studies Department and the San Fernando Valley Japanese American
Community Center, 2004. 15-minute documentary funded in part by the California Civil Liberties
Education Program. Companion online exhibit available at
http://www.discovernikkei.org/en/nikkeialbum/albums/241/
! Screened, with companion exhibit, at: Cal State Northridge, Las Palmas Recreation Center, Mission
College, Pasadena Cherry Blossom Festival, San Fernando High School, San Fernando Valley
Japanese American Community Center, San Fernando Valley Museum of History and Art.
Encyclopedia Essays and Entries
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Japanese American Resettlement in Postwar Greater Los Angeles,” Oxford
Research Encyclopedia of American History, eds. Jon Butler et al. (New York: Oxford University Press,
forthcoming).
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Holmes, Emory Hestus (1924-1995),” The Black Past: Remembered and
Reclaimed, ed. Quintard Taylor, Jr. (Spring 2015): http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/holmes-emoryhestus-1924-1995.
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Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles,” in Asian American Society:
An Encyclopedia, ed. Mary Yu Danico (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2014): 92-94.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Filipina War Brides,” “Filipino Agricultural Workers,” “Filipino Farm Labor
Union (FFLU),” and “Filipino Federation of America,” in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social,
Cultural, Economic, and Political History Vol. I, eds. Xiaojian Zhao and Edward J.W. Park (Santa
Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013), 375-380, 410-413.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman “Pablo Manlapit,” in Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural,
Economic, and Political History Vol. II, eds. Zhao and Park, 817-819.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986,” in The Making of Modern
Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas, Vol. II, ed. Patrick J. Hayes (Santa Barbara, CA:
ABC-CLIO, 2012), 409-428.
Commentary
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “The Complicated Legacy of Richard Alarcón,” Rafu Shimpo, Aug. 7, 2014.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Re: “Just Whose America Is This?” Pacific Citizen, June 21-July 4, 2013, 2.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Remembering a Sad Chapter: Historic Designation Is Still Sought for the
Former Tuna Canyon Detention Station,” Rafu Shimpo, May 18, 2013, 3.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Re: ‘The Tea Party vs. HERD Mentality,’” Pacific Citizen, February 17March 1, 2012, 2.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Economic Realities and Student Dreams in the City of Angels,” in Navigating
the Great Recession: Immigrant Families’ Stories of Resilience, ed. Ana Sánchez-Muñoz et al. (Dubuque,
Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 2011), 95-100.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Civil Discourse on Immigration,” Pacific Citizen, April 1-4, 2011, 2.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Ronald Takaki: People’s Historian,” Asian Week, June 2, 2009, online
edition: www.asianweek.com/2009/06/02/ron-takaki-tribute/#R.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Adventures in (Pan)Ethnicity,” in Learning English, Learning America: Voices
of Latinos and Asian Americans, ed. Juana Mora et al. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt, 2008), 92-96.
Book Reviews
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Review of Little Manila is in the Heart: The Making of the Filipina/o American
Community in Stockton, California by Dawn Mabalon in Western Historical Quarterly 45 (Winter
2014): 482-483.
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 36:1 (2010): 163-166.
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Miscellaneous Publications
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, ed., UC Center for New Racial Studies Newsletter 5:1 (Spring 2015).
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Seeing and Believing: Osagie K. Obasogie on Blinded By Sight,” UC Center for
New Racial Studies Newsletter 5:1 (Spring 2015): 7-8.
Contributed section on post-1965 Asian immigration to “The Sixties,” in The American Yawp, digital
US History textbook: http://www.americanyawp.com/text/27-the-sixties/, eds. Joseph Locke and
Benjamin Wright (2014).
Paul Ong, Emily Le, Sophia Cheng, C. Aujean Lee, and Jean-Paul de Guzman, Grounding the Asian
American and Pacific Islander Policy Voice Through Survey: 2 nd Annual AAPIPRC Conference on Applied
Research Proceedings (New York: Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Research Consortium,
2013).
Jolie Chea, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Michael Gonzalez, and Christine N. Lee, compilers and editors;
Meg Thornton, project director, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Directory for Los
Angeles and Orange Counties, 10 th Ed. (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press,
2008).
Works In Progress
A Touch of Danger: Southern California’s San Fernando Valley and the Racial Politics of an American
Dream, book manuscript in revision stage.
“Resisting Camelot: Race, History, and the Grassroots Opposition to the Los Angeles-San Fernando
Valley Secession Movement,” article in revision stage for submission to the Journal of Urban History.
“Beyond Donna and Ritchie: Midcentury Interracial Dating and Racial Formation in the East San
Fernando Valley,” article in revision stage for submission to Southern California Quarterly.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“A Deep History of Secession: The Roots of Resistance to San Fernando Valley Independence.” Paper
accepted for the 2015 Deep LA Conference, Huntington Library.
“To Fight the ‘Expensive Process of Urban Development Experienced at USC, Columbia and Chicago:’
The Making of San Fernando Valley State College in Cold War Los Angeles.” Paper accepted for the
2015 Society of American City and Regional Planning History meeting.
“‘We Will Not Let You Go!’ How Asian Americans, Latinas/os, and African Americans Prevented Los
Angeles From Tearing Itself Apart.” Association for Asian American Studies. 23 April 2015. Evanston,
IL.
“Transnational Politics and Community in Los Angeles’s Rural Backyard: Filipino Independence and
Mexican Education in the San Fernando Valley.” Association for Asian American Studies. 17 April
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2014, San Francisco, CA.
“From Internment Camps and Public Housing to “America’s Fastest Growing City Area:” Race and
Erasure in the Shadow of War.” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association. 10 August 2013,
Denver, CO.
“Race, Confinement, and Housing in the Shadow of War: Japanese Americans and the Hidden History
of Suburban Los Angeles.” Assoc. for Asian American Studies. 20 April 2013. Seattle, WA.
“Claiming Race and Space: Japanese American and African American Political Identities in the Post-War
San Fernando Valley.” American Studies Association. 16 November 2012. San Juan, PR.
“Race, Space and the San Fernando Valley: Tales from the ‘Damned Hills’ and Beyond.” California
American Studies Association. 21 April 2012. Claremont, CA.
“A New Nurse in a New South: An Oral History of Migration, Community, and Resistance in the
1970s.” Association for Asian American Studies. 12 April 2012. Washington, DC.
“Asian American Suburbanization, New Suburban History, and the San Fernando Valley: A Story of
Like, Race, Rights, and Redress Totally Beyond the 626.” Association of Asian American Studies. 19
May 2011. New Orleans, LA.
“Critiquing Inequality, Challenging Suburbia: Race, Rebellion, and Redress in Southern California’s
San Fernando Valley.” Paper presented at “Race, Repression, and Radicalism on the Pacific Coast and
Beyond” Conference, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington. 14 May
2011. Seattle, WA.
“Civil Rights and the Suburb: The San Fernando Valley’s NAACP and NOW.” Paper presented at the
inaugural UC Center for New Racial Studies Conference, “The Nation and its Peoples: Citizens,
Denizens, Migrants.” 22 April 2011. Los Angeles, CA.
“San Fernando Valley State, 1968-1969: Space, History and Ethnic Studies.” National Association for
Ethnic Studies. 8 April 2011. Claremont, CA.
“Rethinking Race and Rights in the American Suburb: the Case of the San Fernando Valley.” American
Studies Association. 20 November 2010. San Antonio, TX.
“Beyond Donna and Ritchie: Love Across Color Lines in an Iconic American Space.” American
Historical Association—Pacific Coast Branch. 14 August 2010. Santa Clara, CA.
“Beyond ‘Living La Vida Boba:’ Youth and Transnational Asian America.” Paper for “Asia in LA 2010:
Creating and Consuming Asian Cuisines.” UCLA Asia Institute. 2 May 2010. Los Angeles, CA.
“At the Car Wash! Culture and Labor in the City of Angels.” California American Studies Association.
17 April 2010. Long Beach, CA. Also presented at “Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and
Southern California.” UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. 9 April 2010.
“Neo-Noir in the City of Angels.” Assoc. for Asian American Studies. 10 April 2010. Austin, TX.
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“American Dream, American Ghetto: The San Fernando Valley, History, and Social Science.” Social
Science History Association. November 2009. Long Beach, CA. [full paper accepted and delivered to
discussant, but unable to present at conference]
“Shaking up the Suburbs: Communities of Color in the San Fernando Valley, ‘America’s Suburb.’”
Association for Asian American Studies. 24 April 2009. Honolulu, HI.
“Recognizing the Enemy: Racism, Trauma, and State Violence in Nina Revoyr’s Los Angeles.” National
Association for Ethnic Studies. 4 April 2009. San Diego, CA.
“For Better Japanese Americans in a Greater San Fernando Valley: Community Building and Civic
Engagement in ‘America’s Suburb.’” Southwestern 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.’” Southwest/ Texas Regional Conference of the American Culture Association/
Popular Culture Association. 26 February 2009. Albuquerque, NM.
“New Nurses in a New South: Filipina Americans, Resistance, and Crises of Professionalization.”
Annual Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA Center for the Study of Women. 9 February 2009. Los
Angeles, CA.
“‘We’re not just going to sit in the background and pick rice!’: Counternarratives, Resistance, and Asian
Americans at a Catholic High School.” Assoc. for Asian American Studies. 19 April 2008. Chicago, IL.
“The Slippery Signifier: Boba and Asian American Youth.” Southwest/ Texas Regional Conference of the
American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association. 15 Feb. 2008. Albuquerque, NM.
CONFERENCE ROUNDTABLES
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, Alfred Peredo Flores, Jr., Jane Hong, and David K. Yoo
(Chair), “Asian American and Pacific Islander History.” Roundtable accepted for the 2015 Diversity in
the American West-Organization of American Historians Regional Workshop, Glendale Community
College.
Alfred Peredo Flores, Jr., Kehaulani Vaughn, Joyce Pualani Warren, Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen
Sasaki, and Jean-Paul deGuzman, “The Possibilities and Future for Pacific Islander Studies in the
Continental United States.” Roundtable, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. 22 May
2010. Tucson, AZ.
INVITED TALKS, GUEST LECTURES, AND ADDITIONAL PRESENTATIONS
Invited Speaker, “Detention, Housing, and Erasure on the Messy Road to Suburban Los Angeles.” Paper
for the “Asian American Studies at a Crossroads: A Conference Celebrating Twenty Years of Asian
American Studies at UC Santa Barbara.” 5 March 2015. UCSB.
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Colloquium Speaker, “Let’s Stay Together: Race, History, and the Grassroots Opposition to Los
Angeles’s San Fernando Valley Secession Campaign.” UC Center for New Racial Studies, UC Santa
Barbara. 20 November 2014.
Invited Speaker, “#LayersOfLA: Documenting Metropolitan Landscapes on Instagram.” Reframing LA:
New Vistas in Los Angeles History Undergraduate Seminar, Prof. Daniel Lynch, UCLA History
Department. 12 March 2014.
Invited Speaker, “Understanding Race, Power, and Activism in My Backyard: Uncovering Histories for
Social Change,” presentation for the Native and Pacific Islander Summer Intensive Transfer Experience,
UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships. 25 July 2013.
Guest Lecture, “Gender and Migration: The Case of Hawai’i (an Introduction to Picture Bride).” Asian
American Women Undergraduate Lecture, Prof. Jennifer Jung-Kim, UCLA Asian American Studies
Department. 23 August 2011.
Invited Speaker, “The Revolution Comes to Westwood: Ethnic Studies at UCLA.” Delivered to the Santa
Monica College Asian American and Pacific Islander Summer Intensive Transfer Experience Program/
UCLA Center for Community College Partnerships. 15 August 2011.
Presenter, “‘Makin’ New Friends Where the West Begins:’ Constructing Histories and Images of the
San Fernando Valley.” “Lunchtime Conversations” Series, Autry National Center of the American West.
19 July 2011.
Guest Lecture, “The United States Becomes an Imperial Power.” History of the US and Its Colonial
Origins—19 th Century Undergraduate Lecture, Prof. Naomi R. Lamoreaux, UCLA History
Department. 11 March 2010.
Guest Lecture, “Boosting Los Angeles: The City of Angels in the Progressive Era.” History of California
Undergraduate Lecture, Prof. Kelly Lytle-Hernandez, UCLA History Department. 1 September 2009.
Invited Keynote Address, “Self- and Social-Empowerment on Campus: And So We Continue.”
Delivered to “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,
Loyola Marymount University. 5 April 2008.
Guest Lecture, “Asian American Students and Critical Resistance: Prospects towards Theory.” Asian
American and Pacific Islander Education Graduate Seminar, Prof. Eunai K. Shrake, UCLA Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies. 19 February 2008.
Invited Speaker, “Pedagogies in an Asian American and Pacific Islander History Discussion Section.”
Delivered to the 2007 Teaching Assistant Training Workshop, UCLA Asian American Studies
Department. 26 September 2007.
Invited Speaker, “Asian American Studies and the Graduate School Experience.” Delivered to the Asian
American Student Professional Development Senior Seminar, Prof. Gina Masequesmay, CSUN Asian
American Studies Department. 30 March 2006.
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INVITED PUBLIC HISTORY TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
“‘The Valley Was the Last Place That Sort of Thing Would Happen:’ Episodes in the People’s History
of the San Fernando Valley” San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community Center (SFVJACC),
Pacoima CA, 11 March 2015.
“SFV Nikkei: Snapshots of the San Fernando Valley’s Japanese American Past.” Presented to participants
in Camp Musubi (Japanese American heritage program for middle-school students). 18 June 2014.
“A People’s History of the San Fernando Valley: Using Primary Sources to Uncover Buried Histories,”
lecture/workshop for Katarou Histories (intergenerational community archival and public history
program), Japanese American Citizens League-Pacific Southwest District. 11 July 2013.
“Empowering Our Communities, Empowering Ourselves: The Transformative Power of Ethnic
Studies,” SFVJACC College Day, 23 March 2013
“Using Primary Documents to Explore the San Fernando Valley’s Multiethnic Past,” lecture/ workshop
for Katarou Histories. 12 July 2012.
“Asian American Student Organizing: Challenges and Possibilities.” Delivered to the Asian American
Cultural Club, Harvard Westlake High School, North Hollywood, CA, 9 Oct. 2006.
Nancy Takayama, Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, and Amy Emiko Ikeda, Co-organizers and presenters,
“Creating an Oral History” Workshop. Central California/ Northern California Western Nevada
Pacific/ Pacific Southwest Tri-District Conference of the Japanese American Citizens League (Irvine,
CA). 10 September 2005.
Invited speaker, screening of Telling Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley, 1910s
– 1950s. SFVJACC, 6 March 2005.
PANELS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
Global Raciality: Empire, Post-Coloniality, and Identity on the World Stage. 15 May 2015
Planning Committee Member. 5 th Annual UC Center for New Racial Studies Conference. UC San
Diego.
Discovering History in Your Own Back Yard: The Tuna Canyon Detention Station. 30 March 2014.
Moderated and provided introductory and concluding remarks for panel of descendants of TCDS
detainees Dr. Sigrid Toye, Minoru Tonai, Rev. Dr. Alfred Yoshi Tsuyuki (Konkokyo Church), and
Grace Shimizu (Campaign for Justice: Redress Now for Japanese Latin American Internees). Sponsored
by the Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition at the SFVJACC.
Beyond White Picket Fences: Identities, Belonging, and Asian Americans in Suburbia, 1950s-2000s
16 November 2012. Panel co-organizer for the American Studies Association, San Juan, PR.
(Un)Fragmenting the Metropolis: Revisiting Founding Myths in the Urban and Suburban Spaces of LA.
21 April 2012. Panel co-organizer for the California American Studies Association, Claremont Colleges,
Claremont, CA.
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Screening of Living Along the Fenceline/Discussion with Women for Genuine Security. 25 April 2012.
Planning Committee Member and Grant Writer with the UCLA Graduate Coalition of the Native
Pacific and UCLA Office of Residential Life.
Unlearning the ‘American Pacific:’ A Symposium on Anti-Colonial Pedagogies. 10 April 2009.
Planning Committee Member with the UCLA Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific, Los Angeles,
CA. *First Pacific Islander Studies Symposium held at UCLA*
Beyond Boundaries: Education in Action. 15 November 2008.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center 40 th Anniversary Conference. Planning Committee Member
with the UCLA Asian Pacific Coalition and Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association. Los
Angeles, CA. Conference profiled in “Panelists field discussion about issues facing Asian Americans,”
Daily Bruin, November 18, 2008.
Underground Undergrads: Teach-In on Immigrant Students and the California DREAM Act.
1 March 2008. Planning Committee Member with Asian American Studies 166/ Chicana/o Studies
156/ Labor and Workplace Studies 167 with the UCLA Labor Center and IDEAS (Improving Dreams,
Equality, Access, and Success) at UCLA. Los Angeles, CA.
Racial Profiling and Civil Liberties: World War II and Today. 18 November 2004.
Co-Organizer and provided opening remarks. Sponsored by CSUN Asian American Studies Student
Association and Asian American Studies Department. 18 November 2004. Northridge, CA.
Organizations represented: Muslim Public Affairs Council, South Asian Network, Nikkei for Civil
Rights and Redress, and Japanese American Citizens League.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant – UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, 2009-2013
Conducted primary and secondary research for: Eric Avila, The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt
in the Modernist City (University of Minnesota Press, 2014); Saru Jayaraman, Behind the Kitchen Door
(Cornell University Press, 2013); Abel Valenzuela and Eric Avila, In Their Own Words: Latino
Contributions to the Wine Making Industry in the U.S. (AltaMed, 2011).
Research Assistant – UCLA Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, Fall 2012
Conducted secondary research on informal economies for Prof. Abel Valenzuela
Research Assistant – The Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, 2010-2011
Conducted primary and secondary research on post-World War II political and civic participation in
Los Angeles suburbs for Dr. Becky Nicolaides’ manuscript, On the Ground in Suburbia.
Volunteer Research Assistant – UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Summer—Fall 2009
Conducted primary research for 40 Years of Breaking Ground: UCLA Asian American Studies, 19692009 Exhibition (Lawrence Clark Powell Library, 2009).
Research Assistant – UCLA Department of History, Summer 2009
Compiled Progressive Era LA bibliography and prepared lecture on post-1965 Asian and Latino
immigration for Prof. Kelly Lytle-Hernandez.
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Editor and Reviewer – University of California’s California Digital Library/Calisphere, 2006—2007
Reviewed digital library’s accompanying essays and high school curricula for the California Cultures
Archives and the Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives.
Bibliographer – UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2006
Researched 1,000+ Southern California Asian American and Pacific Islander community based
organizations.
Research Assistant – Telling Our Stories: Japanese Americans in the San Fernando Valley Oral History
Project. Sponsored by the CSUN Department of Asian American Studies and the San Fernando Valley
Japanese American Community Center, 2004—2005
Conducted oral histories and co-wrote/directed eponymous documentary.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP (UCLA)
Annie Chen, BS 2014, “Asian Americans in Mainstream Music”
Awarded the 2013-2014 Tsugio and Miyoko Nakanishi Prize in Asian American Literature and
Culture, UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Crystal Deedas, BS 2013, “Asian Americans against the Model Minority Myth in Health Care.”
Awarded the 2013-2014 Ben & Alice Hirano Academic Prize, UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Jenny Chhea, BA 2015, “The El Monte Case: Community and Resistance”
Ms. Chhea was awarded the 2012-2013 Don T. Nakanishi Award for Outstanding Engaged
Scholarship in Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies from the UCLA Asian American Studies
Center for both her community activism and this research paper.
Eric Jung, BS, 2014, “Asian American Greek Societies: A Study of Their History & Relevance Today.”
Awarded the 2012-2013 Toshio & Chiyoko Hoshide Scholarship, UCLA Asian American Studies
Center.
Kristi Ai Ueda, BA, 2014, “Japanese American Integration”
Awarded the 2012-2013 Chidori Aiso Memorial Scholarship, UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
UC Center for New Racial Studies and UCSB Department of Asian American Studies
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Organizer: New Racial Studies Writing Group, 2014-present
Lead Organizer: “Remapping Race in Suburban California,” Quarterly Race Matters Lecture by
Professor Wendy Cheng (Arizona State University), UCCNRS and UCSB Multicultural Center,
February 20, 2015
UCCNRS Newsletter Editor, Spring 2015
Organizer: “Post-War to Present: The Life of Japanese Americans in Santa Barbara,” Lecture by
Carpenteria City Councilman Wade Nomura, UCSB Asian American Studies Department, May
12, 2015.
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UCLA Department of History
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Member: History Graduate Student Association, 2007-2014; President, 2009-2010
Panelist: “Experienced Teaching Assistant Roundtable,” History Department, 20 September 2011
and 21 September 2010
Member: Academic and Faculty Committee, History Graduate Student Association, 2010-2011
Grad. Student Representative: Faculty Committee, History Department, 2009-2010
Grad. Student Representative: Graduate Admissions Committee, History Department, 2008-2009
Panelist: “Graduate School Workshop.” Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society/ History Graduate
Student Association. 14 May 2008.
UCLA Asian American Studies Center & UCLA Department of Asian American Studies
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Program Volunteer: Various campus and Los Angeles Asian American community events for the
UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2005-2014
Invited Speaker, “The Importance of Giving,” Annual Awards and Alumni Reception, Asian
American Studies Center. 26 October 2013.
Master of Ceremonies (selected, with Asiroh Cham, by the graduating MA class), Annual
Commencement Ceremony, Asian American Studies Dept., 16 June 2013
Invited Panelist, “Alumni Panel,” Annual Awards Reception and Alumni and Friends Reunion,
Asian American Studies Center. 27 October 2012.
Contributing Writer: CrossCurrents: Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center,
Spring 2010 & Fall 2010 issues
Co-Stage Manager and Invited Speaker (representing alumni of the UCLA Asian American Studies
MA program): “Celebrating 40 Years—Special Tribute to Don T. Nakanishi” 40 th Anniversary
Celebration of the Asian American Studies Center, 16 May 2009
Panelist, “Funding Asian American and Pacific Islander Graduate Research.” Panel for the “Beyond
Boundaries: Education in Action” UCLA Asian American Studies Center 40 th Anniversary
Conference. 15 November 2008.
Co-Moderator, “Creating a Network Among Asian American Graduate Students.” Panel for
“Beyond Boundaries: Education in Action” Conference. 15 November 2008.
Asian American Studies Students Representative: Dr. Victor Bascara Recruitment Committee, Asian
American Studies/English Depts., Spring 2007
Grad. Student Representative: Executive Committee, Asian American Studies Dept., 2006-2007
Grad. Student Representative: Faculty Committee, Asian American Studies Dept., 2006-2007
Member: Commencement Coordinating Committee, Asian American Studies Dept., 2006 &
2007; Commencement Volunteer, 2006 & 2008; Graduate student reception coordinator, 2006
Contributing Photographer: Amerasia Journal, 32:2, 2006 and 33:2, 2007; CrossCurrents:
Newsmagazine of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Fall 2006-Spring 2009
Additional Service to UCLA
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Co-chair: UCLA Graduate Coalition of the Native Pacific, 2008—2014
Panelist, “Asian American Studies MA Workshop.” UCLA Asian American Studies Grad. Student
Association/Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies Undergrad. Association. 15 April 2013.
Panelist: “Graduate School and Career Panel,” Phi Beta Lambda-UCLA Chapter, 25 May 2011
Judge: “Unseen Inspiration for our Bruin Nation,” Annual UCLA Speech Contest, 5 Jan. 2011
Member: UCLA Pilipina/o American Graduate Student Association, 2008—2009
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Panelist, “Why Ethnic Studies? The Urgency of a Relevant Education.” UCLA Academic
Advancement Program. 17 May 2007.
Contributing Photographer: Pacific Ties: UCLA’s Asian American Pacific Islander Newsmagazine,
Spring 2006.
Member: UCLA Asian American Studies Graduate Student Association, 2005—2007
Volunteer: Graduate Student Orientation, Graduate Student Association, September 2006
Cal State Northridge
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Member: Alumni and Community Advisory Board, CSUN Department of Asian American
Studies, 2013-present
Invited Panelist, “Future Careers in Diversity Studies Panel with Featured Alumni,” CSUN Alumni
Association and CSUN Career Center, 1 October 2014
Invited Panelist, “Alumni Panel,” California State University, Northridge Asian American Studies
Department Annual Open House. 21 September 2011.
President: CSUN Asian American Studies Student Association, 2004.
SELECTED COMMUNITY SERVICE AND COLLABORATION
San Fernando Valley Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Centennial History Project
Researcher
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Researching history of SFVHBT in preparation for 100 th anniversary in 2021, 2015-present
Tuna Canyon Detention Station Coalition
Founding Member and Historical Adviser
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Worked with various community stakeholders to successfully place the site of Tuna Canyon
Detention Station, a WWII-era camp that held thousands of Japanese, German, Italian and Japanese
Peruvian immigrants in Sunland-Tujunga, CA, on the Register of Los Angeles City HistoricCultural Monuments (voted unanimously by the LA City Council on June 25, 2013). Researched
and contributed brief articles on the history of TCDS for different ethnic media outlets and
community organizations and organized a petition to the City Council.
Currently serving as an historical adviser working to develop educational programs and future
interpretive site; assisting with National Parks Service Japanese American Confinement Site grant;
member of the memorial plaque committee and website committee; UCLA Aratani-CARE Grant
university sponsor, 2013-present
Japanese American Citizens League, San Fernando Valley Chapter
Board Member
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Chair: Scholarship/Internship Committee, 2012-present
Web/Social Media Coordinator: 2010-present
Recording Secretary, 2009-2014
Volunteer: JACL booth, San Fernando Valley Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Obon, 2007-present
Chair: Joint JACL/SFVJACC Scholarship Committee, 2006-2012
Committees: Obon, 2014; Suzume No Gakkou Youth Camp, 2011; Installation, 2010-present
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Volunteer Walking Tours of Judy Baca’s mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Tour Guide
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San Fernando Valley Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, October 26, 2014 and Spring 2015 date TBA
Asian Pacific Islander Obesity Prevention Alliance’s “Bike To Japan” participants, July 19, 2014
Katarou Histories
Teacher and Historical Adviser
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Facilitate yearly workshops on regional history and historical research methods for intergenerational
public history initiative based in Pacoima and Little Tokyo, 2012-2014
Contributed primary documents on the history of Japanese American (JA) resettlement for short
documentary on post-World War II JAs in the San Fernando Valley, Summer 2013
Assisted with grant-writing activities and served as university sponsor for Aratani Foundation CARE
Grant, Spring 2013
Contributed primary documents on the multiethnic history of the San Fernando Valley for
exhibition on the history of the SFVJACC, Summer 2012
Office of Los Angeles City Council District 12, San Fernando Valley, CA
Volunteer Researcher
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Researched and provided historical and census information to Field Deputy Semee Park for projects
on Asian American demographics and voter mobilization in the San Fernando Valley, 2009-2012
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript Reviewer
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UC Asian American and Pacific Islander Policy Multi-Campus Research Program, 2009
Conference Service
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Panel Proctor: “US Immigration and Its Cultural Effect.” Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society
Regional Conference. 18 April 2009. Los Angeles, CA.
Panel Chair: “The Asian American Experience.” Annual Southwest/ Texas Regional Conference of
the American Culture Association/ Popular Culture Association. 26 February 2009. Albuquerque,
NM.
MEDIA INTERVIEWS AND RESEARCH COVERAGE
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Kababayan Today (Filipino American public affairs program), KSCI-LA 18. November 25, 2014.
Interviewed on Michael Brown shooting and unrest in Ferguson, MO and their significance for
Filipino Americans: http://youtu.be/34ipsu2qvFk.
Kababayan Today. October 24, 2014. Interviewed on Filipino immigration to the US and history
of anti-Filipino racism for Filipino American Heritage Month: http://youtu.be/JepVNzbko-M and
http://youtu.be/icD5sfcFiRA.
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Tony Osumi, “Camp Musubi: Connecting Youth to the Power of Little Tokyo,” Rafu Shimpo,
October 17, 2014.
Nalea Ko, “L.A. Riots: A Community Revisited 20 Years Later,” Pacific Citizen, April 20-May 3,
2012, 5.
“Forget Starbucks, Try Boba,” Philippine News, October 11-17, 2006, B1, B2.
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Hollywood from the 101 (2012);” “Long Beach Harbor (2012);” “Layers of
the San Fernando Valley (2013)” in Párrafo: Revista de Literatura, Arte y Cultura 6 (Spring 2014): 32,
34, 35. Also at: http://www.parrafomagazine.com/issues/06/artbook/deguzman.html
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “Far East Market, Sun Valley,” in the digital collection #SoCalifornian, curated
by Maya Sugarman, Audio Vision: From Southern California, Public Radio for Your Eyes, Southern
California Public Radio, June 6, 2014. http://audiovision.scpr.org/384/socalifornian.
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman, “It’s Earth Day Everyday,” in the digital collection “#MyDrought: What Does
Drought Look Like to You?” curated by Maya Sugarman, Audio Vision, March 13, 2014.
http://audiovision.scpr.org/384/socalifornian.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Historical Association; American Studies Association; Association for Asian American Studies;
Historical Society of Southern California; Organization of American Historians
REFERENCES
Janice L. Reiff
Professor of History, Statistics, and Digital Humanities
6265 Bunche Hall, MC 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
University of California, Los Angeles
[email protected]
Eric R. Avila
Professor of History, Chicana/o Studies, and Urban Planning
6265 Bunche Hall, MC 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
University of California, Los Angeles
[email protected]
John S. W. Park
Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Associate Director, UC Center for New Racial Studies
5050 Humanities and Social Sciences Building
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4090
[email protected]
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Valerie J. Matsumoto
Professor of History and Asian American Studies
6265 Bunche Hall, MC 951473, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
University of California, Los Angeles
[email protected]
Howard Winant
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
Director, UC Center for New Racial Studies
2201 North Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
[email protected]
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