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Informationen zum Autor Guofang Li is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Buffalo (SUNY). Gulbahar H. Beckett is an Assistant Professor in the College of Education, University of Cincinnati. Klappentext It addresses the socio-cultural, political, academic, and personal issues that Asian female scholars encounter in higher education. The book is replete with the richness and complexity of these scholars' struggles and triumphs in their professional and personal realms. Zusammenfassung It addresses the socio-cultural, political, academic, and personal issues that Asian female scholars encounter in higher education. The book is replete with the richness and complexity of these scholars’ struggles and triumphs in their professional and personal realms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword--Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, UC Santa Barbara and University of Hong Kong; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Asian Female Scholars’ New Stories of Self. Re-constructing Culture and Identity in the Academy—Guofang Li, SUNY at Buffalo, and Gulbahar Beckett, University of Cincinnati; PART I. ASIAN FEMALE SCHOLARS IN CONTEXT. 1. Asian Pacific American Women and Men in Higher Education. The Contested Spaces of Their Participation, Persistence, and Challenges as Students, Faculty, and Administrators—Shirley Hune, UCLA; 2. Asian Male vs. Female College Students’ Career Paths. Interaction of Gender and Race—Jaekyung Lee, SUNY at Buffalo; 3. Asian Women Faculty of Color. Theorizing Our Lived Experiences—Angel Lin, City University of Hong Kong, Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Su Motha, University of Maryland, Wendy Wang, Eastern Michigan State University and Shelley Wong, George Mason University; PART II. TEACHING, MENTORING, ADVISING, AND SECURING TENURE. 4. Professing in a Non-Native Tongue. Narratives of Three Chinese-Speaking Women Faculty—Xiaoping Liang, California State University, Long Beach; 5. Mentors and Role Models. My Story of Being an Asian Female Faculty—Keiko Komiya Samimy, The Ohio State University; 6. Navigating Multiple Roles and Multiple Discourses. A Young Asian Female Scholar’s Reflection on Supervising and Teaching Fellow Asian Students—Guofang Li, SUNY at Buffalo; 7. Asian Women Warriors of the Academia. Struggles and Strategies for Promotion—Chalsa Loo, National Center for PTSD, Honolulu, and Hsiu Zu Ho, UC Santa Barbara; PART III. GAINING VOICE, FORMING IDENTITY. 8. Brown in Black-and-White. On Being a South Asian Woman Academic—Nina Asher, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge; 9. Unmasking the Self. Struggling with Model Minority Stereotype and Lotus Blossom Image—Eunai Shrake, California State University, Northridge; 10. Within the Safe Haven of “Women’s Studies”. A Thai Female Faculty’s Reflection on Identity and Scholarship—Piya Pangsapa, SUNY at Buffalo; 11. Between the Worlds. Searching for a Competent Voice—Yan Guo, University of Calgary, Canada; 12. Modesty, Moderation, Passion, and Chutzpah. A Chinese-American Medical Professor Speaks—Gulbahar H. Beckett and Jianhua Zhang, University of Cincinnati; PART IV. BUILDING BRIDGES, BUILDING FUTURE. 13. The Road Less Traveled. An Asian Woman Immigrant Faculty’s Journey Integrating Global Pedagogy into Teacher Education—Guichun Zong, Georgia State University; 14. From Mentorship to Friendship, Collaboration, and Collegiality—Xue Lan Rong, School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Judith Preissle, College of Education, University of Georgia, Athens; 15. Building Bridges, Working For A Better World—Jing Lin, University of Maryland; Editor and Contributor Biographies. ...
