EDUCATION
1987-1992 New School for Social Research, New
York City
Ph.D. in Sociology
1983-1984 London School of Economics and Political
Science
M.S. in Sociology
1979-1983 Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
B.A. in Anthropology
WORK EXPERIENCE
Sept 1998 Occidental College
to present Associate
Professor of Sociology
1994-1998 Amherst College
Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Sociology and American Studies
1991-1994 University of Houston
Assistant Professor of Sociology
1990
Hunter College, City University of New York
Adjunct Faculty
1989
Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research
Adjunct Faculty
Apr 1985 to Massachusetts Division of Employment
Security, Boston, MA
July 1987 Evaluation
Researcher
BOOKS
Reconstructing Chinatown: Ethnic Enclave, Global Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). Book is recipient of 1999 Robert Park Award, granted each year for best book in Community and Urban Sociology by the American Sociological Association.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
"Chinese Americans: From Exclusion to Prosperity," in The Minority
Report (3rd ed.), edited by Gary A. Dworkin. Dallas, TX: Harcourt,
Brace, 1999.
"Globalization and the Revalorizing of Ethnic Places in Immigration
Gateway Cities," Urban Affairs Review 34, 2 (November 1998): 313-339.
"The Reclamation of Asian Places in Downtown Los Angeles," Hitting
Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism 5, 1
(Spring 1998): 65-87.
"Gateways in the Flow of Capital and Culture: Hong Kong and New York
as World Cities," City and Society, Annual Review (1997): 217-240.
(with Gerson David) "Civil Rights and Asian Americans," Journal
of Sociology and Social Welfare 24, 1 (March 1997): 3-24.
"Ethnic Places, Postmodernism and Urban Change in Houston," The
Sociological Quarterly 36, 4 (Fall 1995): 501-519.
"Polarized Development and Urban Change in New York's Chinatown," Urban
Affairs Review 30, 3 (January 1995): 332-354.
"The Changing Economy of the Lower East Side," in From Urban Village
to `East Village': The Battle for New York's Lower East Side, edited
by Janet Abu-Lughod. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
"Les Flux de Main-d'oeuvre et de Capitaux Chinois vers les Etats-Unis,"
(Changing Patterns of Chinese Labor and Capital Migration to the U.S.)
Revue Europeenne des Migrations Internationales 8, 3 (1992): 73-89.
"Beyond Neo-classical Shibboleths: A Political-Economic Analysis of
Taiwanese Development," Dialectical Anthropology 14 (1989): 283-300.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Bill Ong Hing's To Be An American: Cultural Pluralism and
the Rhetoric of Assimilation for Asian and Pacific Migration Journal
(1998).
Review of Pyong Gap Min's Asian Americans (Sage Publications)
for Asia-Pacific Migration Journal (1998).
Review of five books (Changing Identities: Vietnamese Americans,
1975-1995, by James M. Freeman; From the Workers' State to the Golden
State: Jews from the Former Soviet Union in California, by Steven J.
Gold; From the Ganges to the Hudson: Indian Immigrants in New York City,
by Johanna Lessinger; Salvadorans in Suburbia: Symbiosis and Conflict,
by Sarah J. Mahler; A Visa for a Dream: Dominicans in the United States,
by Patricia R. Pessar). Published in Contemporary Sociology, 26,
3 (May 1997): 351-354.
Review of Min Zhou's Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an
Urban Enclave, for Social Forces 74, 3 (March 1996): 1124-1125.
Review of Renqui Yu's To Save China, To Save Ourselves: The Chinese
Hand Laundry Alliance of New York (Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1992) for International Labor and Working Class History 47
(Spring 1995): 126-128.
CONFERENCE PANELS
Session organizer: "Community and Urban Sociology Roundtables," American
Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City, August 1996.
Session organizer: "Asian Community," Southwestern Social Sciences
Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, forthcoming, March 1994.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
"Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites, and Redevelopment
in Hollywood," presented at the American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 1999.
"Globalization, Sweatshops, and Athletic Style Wars: The Cultural Politics of Nike Advertising Imagery," (with Ron Lembo) presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 1998.
"Globalization and the Revalorization of Ethnic Places in Immigration
Gateway Cities," presented at the American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 1997.
"State Incursions and Community Action in New York's Chinatown," presented
at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York City,
August 1996.
"Factionalism and Solidarity: Community Power in New York's Chinatown,"
presented at the Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., June 1996.
"Comparative World Cities: Hong Kong and New York as Gateway Cities,"
presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C. August 1995.
"Immigration and Nativism in Historical Perspective," presented at
the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
August 1995.
"Highways or Flyways? Urban Sprawl Meets Environmentalism in Exurban Houston," presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, August 7, 1994.
"Uses and Abuses of the Minority Enclave: Redevelopment and Postmodernism
in Houston," presented at the American Sociological Association Annual
Meeting, Miami, Florida, August 14, 1993.
"Minority Group Enclaves and Urban Change in Houston," presented at
the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting," New Orleans,
Louisiana, March 19, 1993.
"Semiperipheral Capital Flows to the Core: the Case of the East Asian
NICs," presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, August 22, 1992
"Tenant Management and Tenement Rehabilitation on Manhattan's Lower
East Side," presented to the Working Group on Housing and the Built Environment
at the International Sociological Association Congress, July 1990, in Madrid,
Spain.
"Polarized Development in the `World City': the Chinese Enclave of
New York City," presented at the International Housing Research Conference,
July 1990, in Paris, France.
"The Social Geography of Garment Production in Lower Manhattan," a
paper presented to the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Maryland, March 20, 1989.
FUNDED RESEARCH
1999-2002 Principal
Investigator for "Northeast Los Angeles Community Outreach Partnership
Center," a three-year
grant for $399,654, funded by the Office of University Partnerships, U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban
Development.
Summer 1999 "Eagle Rock and Highland Park Community
Data and Mapping Project," Haynes Foundation Faculty
Fellowship, Los Angeles, California.
Summer 1996 "Reclaiming Downtown: Minority
Culture and Community Development in American Cities," Miner D. Crary
Summer Fellowship, Amherst College.
Summer 1994 "Economic Transition and Urban Change
in Hong Kong and South China," Limited Grant-in-Aid from
University of Houston Office of Sponsored Programs.
Summer 1992 "Linkages and Multipliers in Houston
Minority Business Enclaves," summer Research Initiation Grant from
University of Houston Office of Sponsored Programs.
HONORS/FELLOWSHIPS
1992
Citation in Men of Achievement (International Bibliographic Center).
1990 Citation in Who's Who Among Rising Young Americans.
1989-1990 Recipient of doctoral
research award from Community Service Society of New York during
writing of Ph.D.
dissertation.
1987-1990 Recipient of Graduate
Faculty Dean's Fellowship from New School for Social Research.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
1996-1998 Affirmative
Action Advisory Committee, Amherst College
1992-1993 Faculty Committee
on Cultural Diversity in the Core Curriculum, University of Houston.
1991-1993 Member of
Graduate Committee for Sociology Department, University of Houston
1991-1999 Member of
American Sociological Association
Community and Urban Sociology section member
Racial and Ethnic Minorities section member
Political Economy of the World System section member
1995-1999 Member of
Urban Affairs Association
1995-1999 Member of Association for Asian American Studies
1991-1994 Member of Southwestern Social Science Association
1995-1996 Member of
Eastern Sociological Society
PUBLIC SERVICE
Spring 1999 Was main campus
organizer for the 14th L.A. City Council District Candidates
Forum, held at Occidental
College Keck Theater on March 18, an event co-sponsored by the Northeast
Community Resource
Coordinating Council and Century Communications. Drawing 14 candidates
and an audience of 500, the
forum was videotaped and broadcast on cable television.
Spring 1997 Supervised
three classroom field projects in Holyoke, Massachusetts, including: a)
an ethnographic film
project on Puerto Rican youth involvement in urban beautification, b) student
compilation of Holyoke
Community Data and Map Book 2 (statistical tables as well as GIS
maps based on U.S. census data), and
c) survey of tenants in apartment buildings threatened with eviction, followed
by public testimony.
May 1996
Supervised classroom field project involving interviews of merchants in
Holyoke, Massachusetts, released
as Main Street Improvement Survey.
April 1996
Supervised student input in compilation of Holyoke Community Data Book
(tabulation of U.S. census data
on CD-ROM) in "Urban Sociology" class. Distributed to community organizations
and city planners.
June 1995-96 Conducted workshops
on "Asian Migration" for Hartford, Connecticutt Humanities Alliance Summer
Institute for Public School Teachers.
May 1993
"Background and Settlement of Asian Groups in Houston," presentation for
Asian American Heritage
Month, Houston Independent School District.
March 1993 "Student
Leaders and Public Service," keynote address at annual meeting of Houston
Chapter of Omicron
Delta Kappa national student assiciation.
Fall 1992
Supervised household survey of living conditions of low-income residents
at Allen Parkway Village, public
housing project in Houston's African American Fourth Ward.
Spring 1992 Organized
University of Houston student involvement in clean-up efforts at College
Park Cemetery, located
in Houston's African American Fourth Ward.
Feb 1992
"Who's Going Where in Houston: Intraregional Race and Ethnicity Migration,"
(with Jacqueline Hagan and
Peg Purser), presentation at Texas Economic and Demographic Association,
Houston.
1990-91
Member of Board of Directors of It's Time (Chinatown community development),
New York City.
1990-91
Member of Board of Directors of A.J. Muste Memorial Institute (pacifism
and human rights), New York
City.
Fall 1988
Work/study volunteer with Joint Planning Council of the Lower East Side,
as community organizer, recording
secretary and editorial assistant.
Spring 1988 Work/study
volunteer with New York Chinatown History Project, on research for women
garment workers
exhibition and in holding a Housing Conference.
1986-1987 Volunteer organizer for Somerville Tenants Organizing Project, introducing rent review initiative.
1986-1987 Member of
volunteer editorial collective with Dollars and Sense (an economics
journal) in Somerville,
Massachusetts.
MEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Sept 1999 Quoted in Los Angeles Times on HUD grant award to Occidental College.
Oct 1998 Radio interview with WNYC-820 AM, New York on content of book, Reconstructing Chinatown.
March 1993 Appeared in a "Town
Meeting on Immigration" televised by Channel 8, Houston, Texas.
Feb 1993
Interviewed by Channel 2 on subject of urban decline in Third Ward of Houston.
Jan 1993
Interviewed by Fox TV on subject of Allen Parkway Village housing project
in Houston.
Nov 1992
Interviewed by Houston Post on subject of gentrification in Houston
June 1992
Interviewed by Houston Chronicle on issue of Black/Asian relations
in Houston.
May 1992
Interviewed by Newsweek magazine on subject of Asian Americans in
Houston.