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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