Yen Le Espiritu

Professor

Curriculum Vitae

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

OFFICE HOURS:

Fall 2009: Tuesdays 11:00a.m.-12:00 p.m. and
Wednesdays 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Winter 2010:TBA

Spring 2010:TBA

2009-2010 COURSES:

Fall 2009:
ETHN 191A - Ethnic Studies Honors (Wednesdays 10:00-12:50p
SSB 253)

Winter 2010:
ETHN 87 - Asians: the Model Minority? (Monday 1:00p-2:20p SSB 103) - will meet: January 26;
February 2, 9, 23; March 2,9.
ETHN 191B - Ethnic Studies Honors (Wednesday 10:00a-12:50p SSB 103)

Spring 2010:
ETHN 191C - Ethnic Studies Honors (Wednesday 10:00a-12:50p SSB 103)
ETHN 200C - Controversies in Ethnic Studies (Monday 12:00p-2:50p SSB 253)

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.