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Gina Masequesmay

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor

California State University Northridge
Asian American Studies Department
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8251
Mail Code 8251
Office: 818-677-7219
Fax 818-677-7094
http://www.csun.edu/~gm61310/

gina.masequesmay@csun.edu

EDUCATION

September 1993 to January 2001	Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation: "Becoming Queer and Vietnamese American: Negotiating Multiple Identities in an Ethnic Support Group of Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Female-to-Male Transgenders." Committee members included co-chairs John Horton and Laura Miller; Min Zhou; and Shirley Hune.
Spring 1999	Candidate of Philosophy. Passed Oral Dissertation Proposal Defense.
Fall 1997	Passed second field exam on “Multiple/Intersecting Identities.” Advisors included John Horton and Jeff Prager.
Spring 1996	Passed first field exam on “Race & Ethnicity.” Readers were David Lopez and Walter Allen.
Summer 1995	M.A. Sociology, UC Los Angeles. Thesis: "Everyday Identity Works at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization." Committee members: John Horton & Robert Emerson.
Summer 1994	Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) award recipient to learn Vietnamese at the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
May 1991	B.A. Sociology, Pomona College. Senior Thesis: "Little Saigon: An Exploratory Study." Thesis Advisor: Robert Herman
Summer 1990	American Sociological Association’s Minority Opportunity Summer Training (MOST) fellow at the University of Delaware.

TEACHING

January 2001 to Present	Assistant Professor at CSUN Asian American Studies Department. Courses include Introduction to Asian American Studies; Asian American Sexualities; Contemporary Asian American Issues; Race, Racism & Critical Thinking; Vietnamese American Experiences; and Asian American Professional Development. http://www.csun.edu/~gm61310/#classes
Fall 2000 & Fall 1999	Workshop Leader in workshop on How to Create a Web Page for UCLA TA Training Conference 2000. For more information, please see http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~mychi/tatraining/TA-web-editing.htm.
Spring 2000	Instructor (Teaching Fellow) for Asian American Studies: Gender and Sexuality. For more information, please see http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/00S/asian197b-1/.
Winter 2000	Teaching Associate for Introduction to Women’s Studies. For more information, please see http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/00W/women10-1/masequesmay/.
Winter 1999	Instructor/RA for Web Class (Soc. 199) as extra component of course, Contested Sexualities (Soc.M167). For class web page, please see http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/99W/socm167-1/.
Spring 1998	Teaching Associate for Queer Sociology. For class web page, please see http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/98S/soc195b-1/.
Winter 1998	Teaching Associate for Sociology of Criminal Justice.
Spring 1997	Teaching Fellow for Asian American Studies: Gender & Sexuality.
Winter 1996 & Fall 1996	Teaching Associate for Sociology course on Sociology of Deviance.
Summer 1996 & Summer 1995	Teaching Associate for UCLA Freshmen Summer Program’s (FSP’s) Introductory Sociology course. FSP is an advanced academic program for entering first-year students of socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.
Spring 1996 & Fall 1995	Teaching Associate for Introductory Sociology: Perspectives on Inequality.
Winter 1995 & Spring 1995	Teaching Assistant for Inter-group Conflict & Prejudice.
Fall 1994	Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Statistics

RESEARCH

Spring 2002 - Present	Creating teaching materials for teaching AAS 100 and 201 classes. Working on an anthology on API sexualities.
Spring 1999 to Winter 2001	Research on Vietnamese networks of lesbians, bisexual women and female-to-male transgenders via participatory ethnography and in-depth interviews.
Summer 1998 to Winter 1999	Research Assistant for Professor John Horton on developing innovative ways of integrating web technology to Field Studies “service-learning.”
Summer 1997 & Fall 1998	Research Assistant for Professor John Horton on designing a sociology course syllabus on queer sexualities.
Summer 1996	Research Assistant for Professor David Lopez on creating an updated annotated bibliography on sociological studies on Vietnamese in the U.S.
Winter 1993 to Spring 1994	Research Assistant for Professor David Takeuchi at UCLA National Research Center on Asian American Mental Health.

PUBLICATIONS

Under Review	“Methodological Intersections of Race, Sexuality and Ethnography.” In Handbook of Research Methods in Ethnic Studies: Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities, edited by Timothy P. Fong. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press.
2006	“Building Allies: Linking Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Studies.” In Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans, edited by Edith Chen and Glenn Omatsu, pp. 57-74. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
February 2005	Co-editor and contributor to "Awakening/Tinh Thuc", O-Moi Zine, Issue No. 1.
November 2003	"Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Queer Vietnamese American Support Group." In Journal of Homosexuality 45(2/3/4): 193-215. Also co-published as chapter in Queer Theory and Communication: from Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), edited by Gust A. Yep, Karen E. Lovaas and John P. Elia. NY: Harrington Park Press.
July 2003	"Emergence of QueerVietnamese America" In Amerasia Journal. 29(1):117-134.
2000	“Everyday Identity Works at an Asian Pacific AIDS Organization.” In Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America, edited by Martin Manalansan IV. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Fall 1996	Co-editor with Trang Hoang, and Nina Ha on "Emergence of the Vietnamese American Communities: A Bibliography of Works Including Selected Annotated Citations". Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
1995	"A Reminder" Poem in Once Upon a Dream: The Vietnamese-American Experience, edited by De Tran, Andrew Lam, and Hai Dai Nguyen. Kansas City: San Jose Mercury News; Andrews and McMeel.

REVIEWER & PUBLICATION-RELATED WORK

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Vientamese Studies, March 2006 to Present.

Article Reviewer for City & Community Journal, July 2003.

Book reviewer for Alta Mira Press, October 2002.

Reviewer for Journal of Oral History, July 2001.

Reviewer for Signs, February 2001.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & TALKS

Discussant at the 23rd annual Center of Southeast Asian Studies Conference, “Vietnam Studies: State of the Fields.” UC Berkeley, California, April 6, 2006.
Co-organizer for the Association of Asian American Studies Conference’s Roundtable on “The Roles of Spirituality on Asian American Lives.” Atlanta, Georgia on March 22-26, 2006.
AAAS Program Committee Member. Reviewer of Proposals for Roundtables and Panels at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on March 22-26, 2006.
Co-organizer for the annual Association of Asian American Studies Conference’s Roundtable on “Pornography and Its Discontent.” Los Angeles, April 22, 2005.
"Little Saigon, Past, Present and Future" Roundtable Co-presentation with Karin Aguilar-San Juan and Nhu-Ngoc Ong at the "30 Years Beyond the War: Vietnamese, Southeast Asian, and Asian/American Studies" Conference at UC Riverside, April 19, 2005.
“Southeast Asian American Families in Transition.” An invited talk for the California School of Nurses, Hollywood in February 4, 2005.
“Vietnamese American Families in Transition.” An invited talk for the UCLA Asia Institute Summer Seminar, training of K-12 teachers. August 11, 2004. Co-presenter with Sissy Trinh, Director of Southeast Asian Community Alliance.
“Strategies to Deal with Student Resistance to Asian American Issues” Roundtable panelist, “Teaching Queer Matters,” at the AAAS Conference in Boston, March 2004.
“Queering Vietnamese America and Ethnicizing Queerness: Negotiating Multiple Identities in a Support Group.” An invited talk for UCSB Asian American Studies Departmental Colloquium, November 18, 2003.
"Constructing Resources on Teaching Asian American Sexualities" at the West & the Pacific Regional Association for Asian American Studies Conference in Pomona, CA, March 2003.
"Constructing Queer Vietnamese America" at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference in Chicago, IL, August 17, 2002.
"Queering Vietnamese America" at the conference "Reproducing Gender in Contemporary Vietnam and Diasporic Spaces." Sponsored by The UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies, The UCLA Interdisciplinary Program in Southeast Asian Studies, The UCLA Center for Asian American Studies, and the California Lutheran University. At UCLA and CLU, CA. April 12, 2002.
“Toward an Interactional Approach in Examining the Relationship between Ethnic and Sexual Identities and Mental Health,” at the Society for the Studies of Social Problems Conference in Chicago, Illinois. August 1999.
“The Politics of AIDS and Identities at an Asian/Pacific Islander AIDS Organization” at the Society for the Studies of Social Problems Conference in San Francisco, CA. June 1998.
“Identity Works: A Case of Race Reification” at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference in Waikiki, Hawaii. June 1998.
“Everyday Identity Politics” presented at the Intersecting Identities Session, American Sociology Association Conference in Toronto, Canada. August 1997.

HONORS AND AWARDS

November 2005	Recipient of the 2004-2005 Don Dorsey Excellence in Mentoring Award.
Spring 2004 (postponed)	Recipient of the CSUN Probationary Faculty Development Program Award.
November 2003	Recipient of the CSUN College of Humanities Faculty Fellow Program.
August 2002	Selected to participate in CSUN Faculty Mentor Training Project for Fall 2002 Semester.
November 2001 to April 2003	Co-chair in Ford Foundation's funding of CrossTalk II Conference to take place in November 2002.
May 2002 to August 2003	Recipient of CSUN Service Learning Grant.
Summer 2000	ASA Sex and Gender Section's Honorable Mention for the Levine Dissertation Award.
Fall 1997 to Summer 2000	ASA Minority Fellowship Program.
Fall 1993 to Spring 1996	UCLA Project 88 Fellowship.
Summer 1994	Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship.
Summer 1991	Minority Summer Research Internship Program (MSRIP) fellow.
Summer 1990	Summer 1990 American Sociological Association’s Minority Opportunity Summer Training Program (MOST) fellow.

SPECIAL SKILLS

· Proficiency in Vietnamese (reading, writing, speaking).

· Proficiency in PC and Mac. Know Word, WordPerfect, Excel, Powerpoint, EndNote Plus, Netscape Composer, Nud*Ist NVivo, Front Page, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and basic HTML.

ASSOCIATIONS

· Member of the American Sociological Association

· Member of the Society for the Studies of Social Problems

· Member of the Association of Asian American Studies.

UNIVERSITY & COMMUNITY SERVICES

LGBT Studies Minor Committee, Summer 2006.
First Year Programs and Services Committee Member, September 14, 2005 to present.
Faculty Advisement Coordinator for AAS Department for Spring 2004 to Present.
Disciplinary Representative of the Lower-Division Transfer Patterns (LDTP) project for Academic Year 2004-05.
Co-editor and Contributor to O-Moi Zine Issue 1 “Awakening.” O-Moi is a support group for Vietnamese lesbians, bisexual women and FTM transgenders. February 2005. Also, currently board committee member for second issue.
Presidential Appointee for Faculty Committee on Extended Learning, AY 2003-04.
Committee member of a community-based project’s annual conference called “Embraceable You” (9/13/03) to build straight Asian Pacific Islander allies to the LGBTIQ community, since June 2003.
Chair of AAS Department’s Student Development Committee since Spring 2003.
Committee Member of AAS Department’s Curriculum Committee since Spring 2003.
Co-Chair Organizer of the “CrossTalk II: Embodiments of Asian Pacific Islander Sexuality” Conference at CSUN, Fall 2002.
Member of CSUN United for Peace and Justice Fall 2002 to Spring 2004.
Co-founder of CSUN Positive Space Program since February 2002. Trainer for the Ally Workshop that provides gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/intersexual –sensitivity training to the campus.
Co-coordinator of the AAS Department Student Awards Night & Distinguished Lecturer Series, April 2002 and April 2003.
Committee Chair of Departmental Web Site, Summer 2001 to Summer 2002.
Committee Chair of Departmental Mission Statement, Spring 2001 to Spring 2002.
Panelist at CSUN Teach-In “Domestic Crisis & War”, September 20, 2001.
Tour guide to Little Saigon for high school teachers, sociologists and students in 8/03/01; 8/19/01; and 10/7/01.
Board member of Asian Pacific Islander for Human Rights (APIHR) from Summer 2001 to Fall 2002.
Peer Mentor for UCLA LGBT Mentoring Program, Fall 1999 to Fall 2000.
Coordinator of O-Moi, a social support network for Vietnamese bisexual women, lesbian and female-to-male transgender. Fall '97 to Spring '01.
Advisory committee member of to the Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team’s Women’s Program.
Co-facilitator of Mahu, a UCLA Asian/Pacific Islander queer support network, Spring 1994 to Fall 1998.

REFERENCES

KARIN AGUILAR-SAN JUAN, Associate Professor, MacAlester College

JOHN HORTON, Emiritus Professor, UCLA

DAVID TAKEUCHI, Professor, University of Washington

Updated as of 06-21-06 by Gina.

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