Laura Sachiko Fugikawa
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University of Southern California
American Studies and Ethnicity
3470 Trousdale Parkway WPH 303
Los Angeles, CA 90089-4033
3425 Bellevue Ave. Apt.2
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323-906-8566
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Education
2004 - Present Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies and Ethnicity
Dissertation: Domestic Containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and the Cultural Politics of Relocation
University of Southern California
Gender Studies Certificate
October 2007 M.A. in American Studies and Ethnicity
University of Southern California
August 2004M.A. in American Studies
University of New Mexico
Specializations: Race, Class, Gender, and Postcolonial Theory
Thesis, passed with distinction: The Queerest of the Queer: The Mixed Race Body in Postcolonial Texts
December 2000B.A. in University Studies, summa cum laude
University of New Mexico
Specializations: Women Studies, Creative Writing and Law
Grants and Scholarships
Dissertation Research and Writing Award, University of Southern California, 2010
Graduate and Professional Student Conference Travel Award, University of Southern California, 2010
Diversity Enhancement Placement Assistance Award, University of Southern California, 2009
Graduate Professionalization Initiative Award, University of Southern California, 2009
Diversity Placement Assistance Grant, University of Southern California, 2008
College Merit Fellowship, University of Southern California, 2004
American Studies Graduate Student Association Conference Travel Grant, UNM, 2002-2003
American Studies Graduate Student Association Presentation Grant, UNM, 2002
Albuquerque Lesbian and Gay Chamber of Commerce Scholarship, 1999
Presentations
“Remembering Relocation in Los Angeles” Annual American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio TX, (upcoming 2010).
"Respatializing the Urban: The Changing Landscape under Relocation," New Futures Institute, Dartmouth College, NH, June 2010.
"Documenting Native Americans through Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles," USC Native American Research Group, Los Angeles CA, 2010.
“Containment through Dispersal: Assimilation Campaigns and the Shift to Ideological Containment.” Annual American Studies Association Conference, Washington DC, 2009.
“Negotiating Labor, Space, and Sexuality in Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses.”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Las Vegas, NV 2009.
“Just Beyond the Horizon: TA's Teach the Continuing Relevance of Women's Studies.” National Women Studies Conference. Oakland, June 2006.
“Re-thinking Joey Sands: The Postcolonial Text and the Mixed Race Body.”
Thinking Gender Conference. UCLA, March 2005.
“Mothers and Their Mixed Race Daughters” Panel,
Women of Color-Mixed Heritage Ethnicity and Race Conference. UNM, March 2004.
“On the Way to Grandma’s House: Representations of American Indians on 1-40.”
Co- presenter, Rocky Mountain Popular Culture and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, February 2003.
“Native American Humor as Resistance: Analysis of Native American Humor in Film, Stand up Comedy, and Contemporary Music.”
Rocky Mountain Popular Culture and American Culture Conference. Albuquerque, February 2002.
Selected Lectures and Colloquia
"Relocation in the West: The History of Forced Migrations in California" in Race, Class and Gender in American Literature and Culture, Spring 2010.
“Toni Morrison’s Beloved: a Study in Haunting and Mothering”
Lecturer in Introduction to American Studies, USC, Fall 2008.
“Negotiating Gender, Labor and Space in Bread And Roses.”
Lecturer in Social Issues In Gender, USC, Spring 2008.
“Literary Textual Analysis as Sociological Methodology.”
Lecturer in Sociological Methodology, Grinnell College, Spring 2008.
“Domestic Containment: Japanese Americans, Native Americans and The Cultural Politics of Relocation”
Lecturer in Introduction to Sociology, Grinnell College, Spring 2008.
“Esperanza’s Worldview: The House on Mango Street as a Center of Cosmopolitan Culture.” Lecturer in Cosmopolitan Cultures, USC, November 2007.
“Lessons from the Intersexed: An Argument for Acceptance of Gender Variation.” Lecturer in Social Issues in Gender, USC, Spring 2007.
“The Queerest of the Queer: Queer Texts and the Mixed Race Body.”
Feminist Research Institute, Graduate Student Works in Progress. UNM, October 2003.
"Celluloid Imperialism: US War Movies in the New Millennium." American Studies Colloquium: Postcolonial Theory and American Cinema. UNM, September 2002.
“The Representation of Queer Indians in Contemporary Film.” Guest Lecturer, Introduction to Lesbian and Gays in Film, UNM. Fall 2003.
“The Interactions of Feminist Theory and Disability Politics.” Guest Lecturer, Women in Contemporary Society, UNM. Spring 2003 and Fall 2003.
“Postcolonial Theory and Third Wave Feminism.” Guest Lecturer in Third Wave Feminism, UNM. Spring 2003.
Teaching Experience
Women Studies Program University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2002-2003
Contemporary Feminist Theory, 4 semesters
U.S. Women of Color (designed new course, cross-listed in Chicano Studies, American Studies and Women Studies)
Queer Theory/Queer Lives (designed new course, cross-listed in Sociology and American Studies)
Department of American Studies, University of New Mexico, 2003
Introduction to Gender Studies
Teaching Assistant Experience
Arts and Letters Department, University of Southern California,
2005, 2009, 2010LA: The Fiction
American Studies Department, University of Southern California,
2009, Peoples of Latin America
American Studies Department,University of Southern California,
2008, Introduction to American Studies
Gender Studies Program,University of Southern California,
2006, 2007, 2008Social Issues in Gender
Program of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2006Race and Class in Los Angeles
Program of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California, 2007 Cosmopolitan Cultures
Selected Service
Admissions Committee
University of Southern California, 2008- 2009
Core-Chair
Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference, University of Southern California, 2009
Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Student Forum,
University of Southern California, 2006
Funding Coordinator, Crossing Borders Ethnic Studies Conference
University of Southern California, 2005-2006
Graduate Representative, Graduate Studies Committee
University Of Southern California, 2005- 2006
Treasurer, Paseo American Studies and Ethnicity Graduate Student Association
University of Southern California, 2006
Co-Chair, Paseo American Studies and Ethnicity Graduate Student Association
University of Southern California, 2005
QFAQ Conference Organizing Committee
University of Southern California, 2004
Co-Chair, Queer Caucus, American Studies Association, 2003- 2004
Core Organizer, Women of Color & Mixed Heritage/ Ethnicity/Race Conference
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 2003- 2004
Affiliations
American Studies Association
Modern Language Association
National Women Studies Association
References
Professor Judith Halberstam
Office: THH 407
University of Southern California
Phone: (213) 821- 1169
Email:
Professor John Carlos Rowe
Office: THH 402E
University of Southern California
Phone: (213) 821- 5594
Email:
Professor Jane Iwamura
Office: ACB 130
University of Southern California
Phone: (213) 821-2851
Email:
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