Faculty

Profile

I am interested in encouraging thoughtful engagement with ideas and practices of social transformation at various scales, in particular, its spatiality, contextual contingency, contradictions, and enduring possibility.

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Degrees Held

PhD, Geography, Rutgers University;
MA, Geography, Rutgers University;
BA, Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

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Professional Affiliation

• Association of American Geographers
• Urban Affairs Association
• American Studies Association
• Association for Asian American Studies

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Recent Publications

• “Blank Slates and Disaster Zones: The State, September 11, and the Displacement of Chinatown.” In Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State. Ed. Michael Sorkin. New York: Routledge (2007)
• “Counterhegemony and Context: Racial Crisis, Warfare and Real Estate in the Neoliberal City,” Urban Geography, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 714-721 (2006).
• “ ‘Hen’s Teeth’ in Geography: Women of Color and Inter-disciplinary Strategies for Navigating the Discipline,” Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13 No. 1. 2006
• “The Place of Immigration in Studies of Geography and Race,” Social and Cultural Geography Vol. 1 No. 2. 2000

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Research Interests

Urban, political, and feminist geography; Gender and ethnic studies; Community and class organizing; Migration and work; Race and space; Chinatowns

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Awards And Honors

• 1998-1999, Fellowship, Society of Women Geographers, New York Group.
• 1998-1999, Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University.

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Current Courses

CRS: Art&Activism in the City (Fall 2019)

Global Economies

Global Economies (Fall 2019)

Global Engagement Colloquium

Global Engagement Colloquium (Fall 2019)

Global Gender and Sexuality

Independent Study

Independent Study (Fall 2019)

Thesis Supervision