Yen Le Espiritu

Curriculum Vitae

Office: Social Science Building 228
Phone: 858.534.5206
E-mail: yespirit@weber.ucsd.edu

Fall Quarter 2008 Office Hours: TBA

2008-2009 Courses:

Fall 2008:
ETHN 191A - Ethnic Studies Honors

Winter 2009:
ETHN 191B - Ethnic Studies Honors

Spring 2009:
ETHN 191C - Ethnic Studies Honors

Education:

Ph.D., Sociology - University of California, Los Angeles, 1990.
M.A., Sociology - University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. .
B.A., Communication - University of California, San Diego, 1985

Research and Teaching Interests:

Gender and migration;
Race and U.S. militarism;
Refugee studies;
Asian American studies;
Southeast Asian American studies

Major Publications:

Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003.
Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1997.
Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Current Projects:

Socio-emotional, familial, and economic lives of children of immigrants from the Philippines and Vietnam (with Diane Wolf, UC Davis)
The "Vietnam War" and the constructions of historical memory and national consciousnessRefugee lives in City Heights, San Diego (with Denise Ferreira da Silva, UCSD)
Comparative sociological study of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American post-1975 generations, and their memories of the "Vietnam war" (with Hung Thai, UCSB)

Recent Teaching:

Graduate Courses:
- War, Race, and Violence
- History of Ethnic Studies
Undergraduate Courses
- Comparative Filipino and Vietnamese American Identities and Communities
- Race, Class, and Gender Relations

Courses:

Spring 2006:
ETHN 87 - Asian Americans and the "Model Minority" Stereotype
This seminar reviews the political context that produced the "model minority" stereotype, analyzes the impact that this stereotype has had on the identities of Asian Americans and on race relations in the United States, and examines the validity of this stereotype against the socioeconomic status of Asian Americans. Meeting Dates-Seminar will meet April 13, 20, 27; May 4, 11, and 18.