Laura Uba (seated) with AAS faculty, Alan Aquino (back), Gina Masequesmay (left to right), Edith Chen, Maria Turnmeyer and Juana Mora, Chicano Studies. (Photo: Ryan Purugganan)
Asian
American Studies is important because it helps Asian Americans
and non-Asian Americans understand (1) how being AA relates
to who an AA is and (2) typically overlooked aspects of America
and what they tell us about the United States.
- Senior Lecturer
- Office: 340 Jerome Richfield
- Phone: 818-677-4966
- Fax: 818-677-7094
- Email: Dr. Uba prefers that you call during office hours as her email access is limited and sometimes unreliable.
- Campus Mailcode: 8251
- Curriculum Vitae [pdf download]
Education
- Ph.D. Psychology, University of Colorado (19??)
- B.A. Sociology and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (19??)
Scholarship Highlights
- National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies
- Institute of American Cultures postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA Asian American Studies Center
- Approaches to mental health service delivery for Asian Americans in Los Angeles County. Nashville: Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies, (1980).
- Asian Americans: Personality patterns, identity, and mental health. New York: Guilford, (1994).
- A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans: Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority. NY: SUNY Press, (2002).
Vestibulum pellentesque sem hasellus. (Photo: Ryan Purugganan)
Dr. Uba received her B.A. from UCLA with a major in sociology and psychology and her PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. Upon receiving her Ph.D., she had a postdoctoral fellowship at the Vanderbilt Institute of Public Policy and at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
A member of the committee to establish the Asian American Studies Department at CSUN, her research focuses on psychology and Asian Americans.
She is the author of the book, Asian Americans: Personality Patterns, Identity, and Mental Health. She has also written the first multicultural introductory psychology textbook, published in August of 1998.
My first experience with AAS was as an undergrad, listening to fellow students protest for AAS classes and department, taking UCLA's first experimental calss in AAS, and being a respondent on the first large, cross-generational study of Japanese Americans.
Her latest book is A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans: Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority, published by SUNY Press and—in case you want to make her rich—available in the CSUN bookstore under "Asian American Studies 350".