Tessa OngWinkelmann
Las Vegas, Nevada89122
(702) 895-3173 |
Employment
Assistant Professor of U.S. in the World History, August 2015 – Present
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Education
Ph.D., History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2015 (2008-2015).
Dissertation: “Dangerous Intercourse : Race, Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898 – 1946”
Committee: Augusto Espiritu, Kristin Hoganson, Leslie Reagan, David Roediger
Fields: Modern U.S. History; Race and Ethnicity; Colonial and Post-Colonial History
M.A., Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, 2008
Concentration: Critical Race and Ethnicity, Mixed-race Studies
B.A., English, University of California at Irvine, 2004
Concentration: Multicultural Topics in Literature
B.A., Political Science, University of California at Irvine, 2004
Concentration: International Relations, Race and Ethnicity
Research and Teaching Interests
Transnational United States History, Asia-Pacific History, Modern U.S. History, Asian American Studies, Philippine History and Transnationalism, Filipinos in the Diaspora, Women, Gender and Militarization, U.S. Imperialism in the Asia-Pacific Region, Transnational Feminisms, Sex and Sexuality in U.S. History, Race and Ethnicity in the United States.
Peer Reviewed Publications
“Rethinking the Sexual Geography of American Empire in the Philippines: Interracial Intimacies in Mindanao and the Cordilleras, 1898 – 1921,” in Gendering the Trans-pacific World, ed. Catherine Ceniza Choy and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, (Brill Publishers).
(forthcoming).
Honors and Awards
Graduate College Dissertation Completion Fellowship, AY 2014 – 2015
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ford Foundation Completion Fellowship – Honorable Mention, AY 2014-2015
Newberry Short-Term Resident Fellowship For Individual Research, Spring 2013
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois
Gender and Women’s Studies Department Conference Travel Award, Spring 2013
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation Research Fellowship, AY 2012 -2013
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fulbright Research Fellowship - Philippines, Nov. 2011 – August 2012
Fulbright Institute of International Education
Bordin-Gillette Fellowshipfor Travel and Research, Fall 2012
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Bentley Historical Library
History Department Fellowship, AY 2011-2012
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jeffrey Tanaka Graduate Research Grant, Spring 2010
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Pre-Dissertation Travel Grant, Spring 2010
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
History Department Fellowship, Spring 2009
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Equity Fellowship, 2007-2008
San Francisco State University
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Fall 2013
History 274, “U.S. in the World Since 1917”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2011
Asian American Studies 100 “Intro to Asian American Studies”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2010
Asian American Studies 100 “Intro to Asian American Studies”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010
History / EALC 120 “East Asian Civilizations”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2009
History 172 “U.S. History Since 1877”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grader/Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2008
History 250 “War, Military Institutions, and Society to 1815”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008
Asian American Studies 363 “Survey – Philippine Literature”
San Francisco State University
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007
Gender and Women’s Studies 785 “Intro to GWS”
San Francisco State University
Professional Membership and Affiliations
Asian Pacific American Graduate Student Organization, Fall 2008 – 2015
Association for Asian American Studies, Fall 2009 - Current
Collaborative (History Graduate Students of Color), Fall 2008 – 2015
History Graduate Student Association, Fall 2008 – 2015
Conferences and Presentations
Conference Presenter, Spring 2015
"Criminal Acts: Disciplining Interracial Intercourse in the American Colonial Philippines” Presented at Center for Philippine Studies 40th Anniversary Conference
University of Hawaii, Manoa
ConferencePanel Discussant, Spring 2014
“Love and the Transgressive Marriage”
Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Conference Presenter, Spring 2014
“ ‘MyFilopena Baby’: Staging a Philippine-American Romance, 1899-1946.”
Presented at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, San Francisco, CA
Conference Presenter, Spring 2013
“Daddy’s Girls: American Mestizo Negotiations of Belonging in the Philippines,1900-1928.”
Presented at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Seattle, WA
Conference Presenter, Fall 2012
“Men in the Bush: Interracial Intimacies in the American Colonial Philippine Peripheries”
Presented at the International Conference on the Philippines, ICOPHIL, Lansing, MI
Workshop Presenter, Fall 2012
“Campus Climate and Asian-Americans at UIUC”
Presented for Asian Pacific American Coalition
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Conference Presenter, Spring 2012
“‘Pearl of the Orient,’ Center of Vice: Interracial Intimacies in Manila, 1898 - 1946 ”
Presented at Fulbright South East Asia Mid-Year Conference, Hanoi, Vietnam
Conference Presenter, Spring 2011
“An Opportunity to Work Out Their Own Salvations: Control Of Interracial Intimacies in the Colonial Philippine Peripheries”
Presented at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, New Orleans, LA
Conference Presenter, Spring 2011
“An Opportunity to Work Out Their Own Salvations: Control Of Interracial Intimacies in the Colonial Philippine Peripheries”
Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Conference Presenter, Spring 2010
“Typhoon Ondoy: Imperial Erasure and Inconsequential Landscapes”
Presented at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Austin, TX
Workshop Presenter, Spring 2010
“Campus Climate and Asian-Americans at UIUC”
Presented for Asian American Association Ambassadors Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speaker, Spring 2010
“Contentious Legacies:Mixed-Race in the Age of Color-Blindness and Beyond”
Presented at Asian American Cultural Center Lunch and Learn Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Speaker, Fall 2009
“Orientals and Chinks: Do These Sports Mascots Offend or Honor?”
Presented at Asian American Cultural Center Lunch and Learn Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshop Presenter, Fall 2009
“Contentious Legacies:Mixed-Race Identity and Issues”
Presented at 17th Annual Filipino Americans Coming Together Conference
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Workshop Presenter, Spring 2008
“Filipino American Privilege: Tragedies and Ironies in a Global Perspective”
Presented at Filipino Intercollegiate Networking Dialogue Conference
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and StateUniversity
Non-English Language Skills
Heritage Speaker – Filipino/Tagalog
Intermediate in Reading - Spanish
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