Dr. Tracy Buenavista
"Asian American Studies is important because it provides a space in which we can critically explore People of Color experiences in the U.S. in context of not only race, class, gender, and sexuality, but also colonialism, transnationalism, and diaspora."
Tracy Lachica Buenavista is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches courses on race and racism. In her research she uses Critical Race Theory to examine the role of race, socioeconomic status, gender, and citizenship in shaping higher education for Pilipinos in the U.S. Currently, she is working on a project examining the experiences of undocumented Asian American college students.
She received her PhD in Education at UCLA and MA in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. She is originally from the Bay Area, where her family currently resides.
Education
Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, 2007.
M.A.
Education, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003.
Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University, 2002.
B.A.
Integrative Biology with a mionor in Ethnic Studies. University of California, Berkeley, 2000.
Scholarship Highlights
Buenavista, T. L., Jayakumar, U. M., Misa-Escalante, K. (Forthcoming). Contextualizing Asian American education through Critical Race Theory: An example of U.S. Pilipino college student Experiences. In S. D. Museus (Ed.), Conducting Research on Asian Americans in Higher Education: New Directions for Institutional Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Buenavista, T. L. & Tran, T. (Forthcoming). Asian American undocumented immigrant students. In E. Chen & G. Yoo (Eds.), Encyclopedia of contemporary Asian American issues. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Buenavista, T. L. (2008). Pilipina/o educational experiences in the greater Los Angeles area. In Filipino American K-12 Students: A National Survey. Washington, DC: National Federation of Filipino American Associations.
Buenavista, T. L. (2007). "(De)Colonizing Practices: A Case Study of Pilipino Student-Initiated Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California at Los Angeles.
Burns, L. M. S. P. Burns and Buenavista, T. L. (2007). "(Re)Searching My Personal History: A Timeline Project." In Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales (Ed.), Pin@y Educational Partnerships: A Filipina/o American Studies Sourcebook. Menlo Park, CA: Phoenix Publishing House International.
(2008, 2009). Faculty Fellowship, CSUN College of Humanities.
(2006). Polished Apple Award, CSUN University Ambassadors.
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