Sueyoshi
AMY SUEYOSHI
San Francisco State University / College of Ethnic Studies
1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~sueyoshi/
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Associate Dean of College of Ethnic Studies
Professor in Race and Resistance Studies
Professor in Sexuality Studies
Founding Member and Co-curator of GLBT History Museum
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University of California at Los Angeles, 2002.
Fields: Twentieth Century U.S., Race, Asian America, Gender, Sexuality, Immigration.
Dissertation: “Race-ing Sex: The Competition for Gender and Sexual Identity in Multi-Ethnic San Francisco, 1897-1924.”
Committee Members: Janice Reiff (Chair), Laura Edwards, Miriam Silverberg, Min Zhou
B.A. History, Barnard College of Columbia University, 1993.
Senior Thesis: “Angel Island and Ellis Island: A Comparative Study.”
PRINCIPLE PROJECT
Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental,” in production for January 2018 publication with University of Illinois Press.
In the late 1890s, “wide and open” San Francisco appeared to be a place where men and women could configure their intimate lives in expansive and unconventional ways. Rising rates of divorce, increasing sexual independence among women, and state condoned sex work defined the city. Yet as whites explored and enacted new norms of romance and womanhood, increasing freedoms would be less accessible for Asians in America. White writers, lyricists, illustrators, and other producers of leisure culture projected shifting norms of middle class gender and sexuality upon specifically Chinese and Japanese in newspapers, magazines, plays, and musicals. These characterizations would then conflate Chinese and Japanese, previously perceived as two separate races, into a single group. Discriminating Sex details how middle class white expansion of their own gender and sexual norms marked the formation of the pan-Asian “Oriental,” a deeply sexual racialized stereotype, more than a hundred years ago.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS
San Francisco Pride Community Grand Marshal, 2017.
La Raza Centro Legal Anniversary Gala Honoree, 2016.
Organization of American Historians’ Summer Residency in Japan, 2014.
Houston Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2014.
Willie Walker Award for Community Service, GLBT Historical Society, 2013.
Peg Brand Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University, 2013.
Red Envelope Giving Circle Grant, 2012.
SFSU Community University Empowerment Grant, 2011.
UCLA Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral Fellow, 2007-2008.
Huntington Library Mayers Fellow, 2006-2007.
Social Science Research Council JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2005.
San Francisco State University Mini-Grant, 2003-2004.
Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Human Rights, Osaka City University, July 2003.
Japan Foundation Language Program for Researchers, Six-month course, 2003.
San Francisco State University Summer Stipend, 2003.
Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2001-2002.
Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, 1999-2000, 2001-2002.
George and Sakaye Aratani Graduate Fellowship, 1999, 2001.
California Japanese American Alumni Association Scholarship, 2000.
UCLA Summer R.A./Mentorship Program, 1998.
Project 88, University fellowship with stipend and tuition remission, 1996-2000.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
(Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012)
Introduction reprinted in Journal of Transnational American Studies 4, no. 1 (2012), available at http://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas.
Articles, Essays, and Edited Collections
“Breathing Fire: Remembering Asian Pacific Islander Activism in Queer History,” LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, ed. Megan E. Springate (Washington, D.C.: National Park Foundation, 2016). Available online at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/tellingallamericansstories/lgbtqthemestudy.htm.
“Queer Asian American Historiography” in Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, eds., Eiichiro Azuma and David Yoo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016): 267-278.
“Jendā, shakaiundō, soshite rezubianu de arukoto ni tsuite” ジェンダー、社会運動、そしてレズアンであるおことについて [Gender, Activism, and Sexuality], Okinawa Jendāgaku 沖縄ジェンダー学 [Okinawa Gender Studies], ed. Ikue Kina (Tōkyō: Ōtsuki Shoten, 2016): 177-208.
“Skate and Create: Skateboarding, Asian Pacific America, and Masculinity,” Amerasia Journal, Special Issue on Sport in America 41, no. 2 (2015): 2-24.
“Why Queer Asian American Studies?: Implications for Japanese America,” Pan-Japan: The International Journal of the Japanese Diaspora, Special Issue - Conjecturing Communities: The Ebbs and Flows of Japanese 11, nos. 1 & 2, ed., Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (Summer 2015): 104-120.
“What Western History Means to Me,” Western Historical Association Newsletter: Special Issue – Queer History in the West (Spring 2013): 25-28.
“Making Whites from the Dark Side: Teaching Whiteness Studies at San Francisco State University,” The History Teacher 46, no. 3 (May 2013): 373-396.
“Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi,” Amerasia Journal – Special Issue: Further Desire 37, no. 2 (2011): 2-27.
“Intimate Inequalities: Interracial Affection and Same-sex Love in the ‘Heterosexual’ life of Yone Noguchi, 1897-1909,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 22-44.
“Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History and Yone Noguchi,” in Embodying Asian American Sexualities, Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger, ed., (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009): 157-172.
“InnovAsian in Pornography: Asian American Masculinity and the Porno Revolution,” in 21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education and Rights, ed. Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (New York: Routledge, 2007), 78-80.
Guest Editor, Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate 32, no.1 (2006).
“Friday the Thirteenth – Love, Commitment, and then Catastrophe: Personal Reflections on the Marriage Equality Movement,” Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate 32, no.1 (2006): xi-xvii.
“Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26, no. 3 (2005): 67-100.
Reprinted in Contingent Maps: Rethinking the North American West and Western Women’s History (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014).
“Sexuality and Asian Pacific Islander History,” Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2004 [online]; available from http://apachp.net/; Internet.
Invited Blogs
“National Parent’s Day Forum: Recognizing Caregivers,” National Council for Research on Women, July 24, 2009 [webpage online]; available from http://www.ncrw.org/ncrwbigfive/national-parent%E2%80%99s-day-forum-recognizing-caregivers.
“Inequality in the Marriage Equality Movement,” National Sexuality Resource Center, June 29, 2009 [webpage online]; available from http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/inequality_marriage_equality_movement.
Opinion-Editorials
“For a More Queer-Friendly Japanese America,” Nichi Bei Weekly, 29 July 2010 – 4 August 2010, p. 2.
“Threat to Asians,” San Francisco Chronicle, 21 April 2010, p. A15, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/21/ED461D26VA.DTL
Book Reviews
Review of Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and Law in the North American West by Nayan Shah, Pacific Historical Review 82, no. 2 (May 2013): 297-298.
Review of Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Journal of American Ethnic History (Fall 2005): 113-115.
Review of The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles by Eric C. Wat, Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 3 (July 2003): 504-506.
Review of If They Don’t Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion by George Anthony Peffer, Law and History Review 20, no.2 (Summer 2002): 421-423.
Review of Asian American Sexualities edited by Russell Leong and Q& A: Queer in Asian America edited by David Eng and Alice Hom in Amerasia Journal 25, no.1 (1999): 194-200.
Creative Works
“The Same-sex Wedding Album, Amy & Sheree,” American Sexuality Magazine 2, no.3, March 2004 [journal on-line]; available from http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=271&PageID=75&SID=FBE8414B3220734BCEC3F800D9970E3E; Internet.
Works in Progress
“Techie, Gender Queer, and Lesbian: Interview with Mioi Hanaoka,” in Japanese American Millennials, ed. Michael Omi, Dana Nakano, and Jeff Yamashita.
SELECTED CONFERENCES
“Reading Against the Grain: Doing Western LGBTQ History,” paper to be presented at annual meeting for the Western History Association, San Diego, CA, 2017.
“Orgies, Manservants, and Mess Hall Workers: Asian American Homos, 1900-1950.” Panel Chair and paper presented at annual meeting for the American Historical Association – Pacific Coast Branch, Waikoloa, HI, 2016.
“Sexing the Border: Embodied Transnationalism and the Performance of Gender.” Panel Chair and paper presented at annual meeting for the Association for Asian American Studies, Chicago, IL, 2015.
“Radicalizing Higher Education.” Panel Chair and paper presented at summit of Association of Public Land Grant Universities – Commission on Access, Diversity, and Excellence, Boston, MA, 2014.
“Outlaws and Outliers: Queering Movements beyond Liberal Reform.” Panel Chair and paper presented at annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2014.
“Managing Masculinity: Morality, Degeneracy, and the Creation of an Asian America.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, GA, 2014.
“Queer Love and Anxiety.” Paper presented at annual meeting of the National Women Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, 2012.
“Reconsidering Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi: Conversations with Queer Compulsions Author Amy Sueyoshi.” Author-Meets-Critics roundtable at annual meeting of Association for Asian American Studies, Washington, D.C., 2012.
“Longing to Belong: Queer Sexuality and Citizenship in San Francisco.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 2009.
“The Right to Sexual Orientation.” Comments presented at SFSU Rights Conference, San Francisco, CA 2009.
“Striking Back at the Empire: Radicalizing Asian American Studies from the Margins.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Asian American Studies Association, Honolulu, HI, 2009.
“Homo-Coming: Sexuality, Race, and Intimacy in the Japanese Writings of Yone Noguchi.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., 2008.
“Race-ing Love: The Meaning of Intimacy Among Yone Noguchi’s Interracial Affairs.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Asian American Studies Association, New York City, NY, 2007.
“The Problem of Ethnic Studies: New and Not-So-New Directions in the Field.” Panel Co-Chair and paper presented at the annual meeting of the National American Ethnic Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2006.
“Ruptures: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Citizenship, Space, and Activism.” Panel Chair at the annual meeting of the National American Ethnic Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2006.
“ ‘Love… by Buddha’s Name’: The Question of Same-sex Sexuality in Yone Noguchi.” Paper presented at Asia Pacific Queer 3, Melbourne, Australia, 2002.
“Migrating Masculine and Feminine: Slippery Sexuality and Gender in San Francisco, 1897-1924.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, MA, 2001.
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES
Speaker, “Diversity Matters and Matters of Diversity: Women in Higher Education,” University of the Ryukus, Nishihara, Japan, August 2017.
Panelist, “Queer Scholars and Scholarship on the Job Market,” Roundtable at the annual meeting of American Historical Association, Denver, CO, January 2017.
Speaker, “Career Design and Gender,” University of the Ryukus, Nishihara, Japan, July 2015.
Panelist, “Curating Activism in LGBT History,” Plenary panel at the annual meeting of American Library Association, San Francisco, CA, June 2015.
Panelist, “Ethnic Studies Congress,” Plenary panel at the annual meeting of the National Association for Ethnic Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA, April 2014.
Panelist, “Disciplines of Desire and Identity -- Exploring Queer & Asian-American Scholarship,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 2014.
Panelist, “Queer Labor Matters: Roundtable on Jobs and Careers for LGBTQ Historians,” Roundtable at annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, GA, April 2014.
Keynote Speaker, “Queer Compulsions,” Coastal Plains Graduate Liberal Arts Conference, University of Houston, Houston, TX, February 2014.
Panelist, “Beyond Bigotry: Understanding DOMA, Prop 8, and the Queer Rights Movement,” Pomona College, Claremont, CA, April 2013.
Panelist, “Queer Compulsions,” American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2012.
Speaker, “Meaning and Method of History,” Queer Ancestors Project – Chrysalis Print Studio, San Francisco, CA, November 2012.
Speaker, “Fortieth Anniversary,” San Francisco Pride Main Stage, San Francisco, CA, June 2010
Panelist, “Comments on Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen,” Frameline 33, San Francisco, CA, June 2009.
Panelist, “Future of LGBT Activism,” annual meeting for National Council for Research on Women, New York City, NY, June 2009.
Keynote Speaker, “Miss Morning Glory is not Transgender,” Asian American Sexualities Conference, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 2009.
Keynote Speaker, “Managing Whiteness in the Classroom: A Few Practical Tools,” Saint Ignatius College Preparatory In-service Training, San Francisco, CA, October 2008.
Modular Seminar Speaker, “Regimes of Sexuality and the Politics of Race,” National Sexuality Resource Center Summer Institute, San Francisco, CA, July 2008.
Keynote Speaker, “Storying the Silences, Filling in the Pages,” Cal Queer and Asian Conference, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA May 2008.
Modular Seminar Speaker, “Historicizing Sexuality and the Sexuality of History: Memory, Sexuality, and Race in American History,” National Sexuality Resource Center Summer Institute, San Francisco, CA, July 2007.
Lecturer in Japanese, “Homo-coming,” Osaka Ichiritsu Daigaku Jinken Mondai Kenkyū Sentā, Osaka, Japan, August 2005.
Panelist, “Asian American On-Screen Sexuality Panel,” Visual Communications Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival 2004, Los Angeles, CA, May 1, 2004.
Lecturer, “Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,” Women’s Studies Lecture Series, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, February 4, 2004.
Lecturer in Japanese, “Noguchi Yonejirō ni Okeru ‘love,’ ” Osaka Ichiritsu Daigaku Jinken Mondai Kenkyū Sentā, Osaka, Japan, July 2003.
Lecturer in Japanese, “Kokoro ni Shiteno Masukarēdo,” Kindai Jyoseishi Kenkyūkai, Kyoto, Japan, July 2003.
Invited Panelist, Teaching Sexuality Panel Discussion, Social Science Research Council, San Francisco, CA, October 2002.
INVITED BOOK LECTURES
Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Center for Race and Gender, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, April 2013
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA, February 2013.
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 2013.
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, January 2013.
Center for Research on Gender and Sexuality, San Francisco CA, July 2012.
GLBT History Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2012.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Co-Curator, “Feminists to Feministas,” GLBT History Museum, 2016.
Co-curator, “Queer Past Becomes Present,” GLBT History Museum, 2014.
Curator, “Queer Youth: Out and Active ,” GLBT History Museum, 2014.
Curator, “History is Now: Dragon Fruit Project,” GLBT History Museum, 2014.
Curator, “For Love and Community: Queer Asian Pacfic Islander’s Take Action, 1960s-1990s,” GLBT History Museum, 2012.
Co-curator, “Life and Death in Black and White: AIDS Direct Action in San Francisco,” GLBT History Museum, 2012.