Curriculum Vitae

Current Position:

  • Professor, Department of History and American Studies, University of Mary Washington, Summer 2017-Present.

Education:

  • Ph.D., History, Johns Hopkins University, 2002.
  • M.A., History, Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
  • B.A., American Studies, Pomona College, 1997.

Honors, Grants, and Awards:

  • UMW Waple Endowed Professorship, 2024-2026.
  • Ben Brenman Award for Archaeology (African American Waterfront Heritage Trail Committee), Fall 2021.
  • Alexandria Historical Society Special Award (African American Waterfront Heritage Trail Committee), Summer 2021.
  • Ben Brenman Award for Archaeology (Fort Ward Interpretative Committee), Fall 2019.
  • UMW Summer Research Grant, 2019.
  • Christopher Reynolds Foundation Grant, 2016-2018.
  • Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award (IEHS) 2017.
  • Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Award for ASA-JAAS, Spring 2016.
  • COPLACuba, Consortium for Public Liberal Arts Colleges Award, Fall 2015.
  • Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Grant with the Office of Historic Alexandria, 2015.
  • CAS Dean’s Faculty Grant, Spring 2012.
  • UMW Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award, Spring 2011.
    TIP Team-Teaching Innovation Program, Spring 2009.
  • TIP Travel Grant, Spring 2007.
  • Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Georgia State University, 2006.
  • Kluge Center Fellowship, Library of Congress, 2005-2006.
  • W. Turrentine Jackson Article Prize, Pacific Historical Review, 2004.
  • Research Initiation Grant, Georgia State University, 2003-2004.
  • Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2001.
  • Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library, Fall 2000.
  • Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, Fall 2000.
  • Mayers Fellowship, Huntington Library, Summer 2000.
  • J. Brien Key Research and Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2000.
  • Joint Hagley-Winterthur Fellowship, Hagley Museum and Library, Spring 2000.
  • John Nicholas Brown Center Short-Term Award, Brown University, Spring 2000.
  • Frederick Jackson Turner Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 1999 and Spring 2001.
  • Smithsonian Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Summer 1999.
  • History Department Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1997-1999.
  • William Lincoln Honnold Fellowship, Pomona College, 1997-1998.

Publications:

Books

  • Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming Spring 2025).
  • Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005). Multimedia edition, American Council of Learned Societies History E-book Project, 2006.

Articles and Chapters

  • “Marietta M. Andrews and the Writing of Black Brother,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, (forthcoming).
  • “Food Access, Identity, and Taste in Two Rural Cuban Communities,” with Jennifer Rhode Ward, José Vazquez Rodrigues, and Jorge Foyo, Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies 22, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 66-78.
  • “La Picadora: A Case Study in Cuban Agroecotourism,” with Jennifer Rhode Ward, José Vazquez Rodrigues, and Jorge Foyo, International Journal of Cuban Studies 13, no. 1 (Summer 2021): 8-42.
  • “Asians and Asian Americans and the Performing Arts prior to World War II,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, October 2018.
  • “Immigration Restrictions and International Education: Early Tensions in the Pacific Northwest, 1890s-1910s,” History of Education Quarterly 58, no. 2 (2018): 1-34.  
  • “The Alexandria YWCA, Race, and Urban (and Ethnic) Revival: The Scottish Christmas Walk, 1960s-1970s,” Journal of American Ethnic History 35, no. 4 (Summer 2016): 59-92.
  • “The African American Housing Crisis in Alexandria, Virginia, 1930s-1960s,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 124, no. 1 (2016): 28-68.
  • “‘On a Temporary Basis’: Immigration and the American Entertainment Industry, 1880s-1930s,” Journal of American History 99 (December 2012): 771-792.
  • “The Quest for Music’s Origin at the St. Louis World’s Fair: Frances Densmore and the Racialization of Music,” American Music 28 (Summer 2010): 191-210
  • “Paper Butterflies: Japanese Acrobats in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New England,” in Asian Americans in New England: Culture and Community, ed. Monica Chiu (Lebanon,   N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 66-90
  • “Lee Tung Foo and the Creation of a Chinese American Vaudevillian,” Journal of Asian American Studies, 8 (Feb. 2005): 23-48.
  • “‘There’s No Yellow in the Red, White, and Blue’: The Creation of Anti-Japanese Music during World War II,” Pacific Historical Review, 72 (Aug. 2003): 333-353.

Other Writings

  • “Rose Yuen Ow,” Routledge Guide to Feminist Theater (New York: Routledge, 2024), 313-318.
  • “Making Assessment Work for You,” co-written with Jeffrey McClurken, Journal of American History, 102, no 1. (March 2016): 1123-1131.
  • “Lee Tung Foo,” in New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, ed. Paul Laird and William Everett (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • “The Creation of The Red Lantern: American Orientalism at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” The Red Lantern (DVD Release), Royal Belgian Film Archive (2012).
  • “Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown,” with David Krasner and Thomas L. Riis, African American Review 44 (Spring/Summer 2011): 7-24.
  • Abstract of “The Quest for Music’s Origin at the St. Louis World’s Fair,” RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) (2010).
  • “The Gift of Bread Givers,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29 (Winter 2010): 74-78.
  • “Making Asian American Actors Visible: New Trends in Biography Writing,” Pacific Historical Review 76 (Nov. 2007): 615-622.
  • “A History of Asian Americans in Georgia,” Who’s Who in Asian American Communities in Georgia Gala Program, 29 April 2006.

Public History Projects

  • Restricted VA, with Steve Hanna and Christine Henry (University of Mary Washington). http://restrictedva.org.
  • Documenting Exclusion and Resilience, with Janine DeWitt and Kristin Neun (Marymount University). https://documentingexclusion.org.
  • “Rethinking Race, Housing, and Community: A History of Restrictive Covenants and Land Use Zoning in Alexandria, Virginia, 1900s-1960s,” https://www.alexandriava.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Zoning-and-Covenants-KMoon-20230320.pdf and “African American Housing History Timeline,” https://www.alexandriava.gov/sites/default/files/2023-03/Timeline-of-Alexandria-AfricanAmerican-Housing-History-2023.pdf, Housing for All Project, Department of Planning and Zoning, Alexandria, March 2023.
  • African American Maritime Heritage Trail, South Route, https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/info/default.aspx?id=116132, Office of Historic Alexandria, February 2023.
  • “Alexandria County Almshouse and Burial Ground: Alexandria County Board of Supervisors Property, ca. 1880s-1920s,” with Benjamin Skolnik. Alexandria Archaeology, Office of Historic Alexandria, June 2022.
  • African American Maritime Heritage Trail, North Route, https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/info/default.aspx?id=116132, Office of Historic Alexandria, 2020.
  • Co-Chair, African American Maritime Heritage Trail Committee, Office of Historic Alexandria, 2018-2024.
  • “A Chinese Slave in Alexandria? Melissa Ann Hussey’s Eclectic Trousseau,” Alexandria Chronicle (Fall 2018): 13-15.
  • Historic Alexandria Resources Commission, Office of Historic Alexandria, 2017-2018.
  • “Recruited, Excluded, and (Sort of) Included: the Asian American Experience Seen through Short Films,” Arlington County Teachers Workshop with 1882 Foundation and funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, August 2017.
  • “19th-Century Chinese Immigration,” Lectures in History, C-SPAN3, 2017; https://www.c-span.org/video/?424369-1/19th-century-chinese-immigration.
  • Discovering Alexandria: The 20th Century (commentator), WETA (Washington’s PBS affiliate), 2016.
  • Fort Ward Historic Park and Museum Interpretive Committee, Office of Historic Alexandria, 2016-Present.
  • 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the Civil Rights Movement, Alexandria Black History Museum and the 1882 Foundation, September-October 2015.
  • Immigrant Alexandra: Past, Present, and Future–Oral History Project, Office of Historic Alexandria and funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2014-2016.
  • “A Brief History of Alexandria’s Health Department at 517 N. St Asaph Street, 1944-2004,” Eleventh Street Development Group and Alexandria Archaeology, July 2014.
  • “Finding the Fort: African American History and Memory at Fort Ward Historic Park,” Alexandria Archaeology, Office of Historic Alexandria, July 2014; https://www.alexandriava.gov/uploadedFiles/historic/info/archaeology/FortWardParkHistoryReportMoon%202014.pdf.
  • “A History of Asian Americans in Georgia,” Who’s Who in Asian American Communities in Georgia Gala Program, 29 April 2006.

Websites/Blogs

  • “Harriet Hamilton,” “Stories,” November 2024, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade, Harvard University, https://enslaved.org/fullStory/16-23-126918/.
  • “From Arlandria to Chirilagua: The Shifting Demographics of a Northern Virginia Neighborhood,” The Metropole, Urban History Association, February 11, 2019.
  • “Scottish White Ethnic Revivalism and Usable Pasts in Alexandria, Virginia,” IEHS Blog, October 13, 2018; https://iehs.org/krystyn-moon-scottish-white-alexandria/.
  • Editor/Administrator, Immigrant Alexandria: Past, Present, and Future,  http://immigrantalexandria.org, 2014-present.
  • Co-Editor/Administrator, Immigration in the U.S. South, http://southeasternimmigration.org/, 2013-present.
  • “The Rise of Asian and Asian American Vaudevillians, 1880s-1920s,” A/P/A History Collective, http://www.apachp.org, April 2005. *** Website is no longer available.

Reviews

  • Closing the Golden Door: Asian Migration and the Hidden History o Exclusion at Ellis Island (University o North Carolina Press) in Journal of American History (forthcoming).
  • The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Show (Stanford University Press) in American Historical Review (forthcoming).
  • The Chinese Lady: Afong Moy in Early America (Oxford University Press) in Journal of American History 108, no. 2 (September 2021): 366-367.
  • Off-White: Yellowface and Chinglish by Anglo-American Culture (Bloomsbury Academic Press) in The China Quarterly, 242 (June 2020): 604-605.
  • America Classifies the Immigrants: Ellis Island to the 2020 Census (Harvard University Press) in Western Historical Review 50, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 185-186.
  • Japanese American Relocation in World War II: A Reconsideration (Cambridge University Press) in Journal of Southern History 85, no. 2 (May 2019): 498-499.
  • The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University Press) in History: Reviews of New Books 46, no. 6 (February 2019): 144-145.
  • Chinatown Opera Theater in North America (University of Illinois Press) in Theatre Survey 59, no. 1 (January 2018): 115-117.
  • First Days Project. http://www.firstdaysproject.org, (the South Asian American Digital Archives (SAADA)), in Journal of American History 103, no. 2 (September 2016): 554-555.
  • Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America (Johns Hopkins University Press), in The Historian 78, no. 2 (Summer 2016): 315-316.
  • American Orient: Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century, David Weir, (University of Massachusetts Press) in Pacific Historical Review 81 (November 2012): 668-669.
  • Airborne Dreams: “Nisei” Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways, Christine R. Yano, (Duke University Press), in Pacific Historical Review 81 (February 2012): 144-145.
  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South, Leslie Bow, (New York University Press), in Journal of Southern History 77 (November 2011): 1014-1015.
  • In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy, Anna Pegler-Gordon, (University of California Press), in American Historical Review 115.5 (December 2010): 1484-1485.
  • A Shoemaker’s Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century Factory Town, Anthony W. Lee, (Princeton University Press), in American Historical Review 113 (December 2008): 1559-1560.
  • The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture, John R. Eperjesi, (Dartmouth College Press), in Pacific Historical Review 75 (May 2006): 331-332.
  • The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui, (Princeton University Press), in American Historical Review 111 (April 2006): 495-496.
  • Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans, 1880-1930, Alan Tratchenberg, (Hill and Wang), in Journal of American Ethnic History 25 (Fall 2005): 128-129.
  • Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and their Passage from India to America, S. Mitra Kalita, (Rutgers University Press), in New Jersey History 122 (2004) 153-156.
  • Chinese Immigrants, African Americans, and Racial Anxiety in the United States, 1848-82, Najia Aarim-Heriot, (University of Illinois Press), in The Historian 66 (Winter 2004): 824-825.
  • God Bless America: Tin Pan Alley Goes to War, Kathleen E. R. Smith, (University of Kentucky Press), in Pacific Historical Review, 72 (Nov. 2003): 657-658.

Presentations:

  • “Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants, the Jefferson Manor Subdivision, and the Removal Process,” workshop, Jefferson Manor Citizens Association, November 2024.
  • “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and Implications for Today,” Fairfax County, Department of Planning and Zoning, November 2024.
  • “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and Implications for Local Fire Departments,” Virginia Fire Equity and Diversity Conference, Fairfax County, VA, October 2024.
  • “Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants and the Removal Process,” workshop with State Senator Scott A. Surovell and Fairfax County’s Clerk of the Court, October 2024.
  • “A History of Fairfax County’s Racial Covenants,” sponsored by Nature Forward, Fairfax County-NAACP, South County Task Force, Mount Vernon Regional Historical Society, and the Gum Springs Museum and Historical Society, Sherwood Hall Public Library, August 2024.  
  • “Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen I,” chair, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, April 2024.
  • “Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen II,” commentator, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, April 2024.
  • “The Creation of NOVA and Black Commuters from Falls Church, Virginia, 1890s-1950s,” Virginia Forum, March 2024.
  • “‘Everything to Rid the City of its Black Population’: A History of Race-Based Housing Policies in Alexandria, Virginia, 1900s-1970s,” UMW Social Sciences Colloquium, March 2024.
  • “Dirty Deeds: Research on Private Race Restrictions in the U.S.” (roundtable), Urban History Association Conference, October 2023.
  • “Radical Thought of a Different Kind: Marietta Andrews on Eugenics, Education, and the Fine Arts,” Southeastern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association Biennial Conference, September 2023.
  • “Historicizing Yellowface: Made-Up Asians and Oriental, Black, and White” (roundtable), Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, April 2023.
  • “Rethinking Race, Housing, and Community: A History of Restrictive Covenants and Land Use Zoning in Alexandria, Virginia, 1900s-1960s,” Housing for All Symposium, March 2023.
  • “Making Alexandria Home: A History of Exclusion and Activism, 1900s-1970s,” All Alexandria Reads, April 2022.
  • “Alexandria Housing and Segregationist Practices,” Adult Education Program, Westminster Presbyterian Church, April 2022.
  • “The Future of Ethnic Studies: A Community Panel,” The Lemon Project, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, March 2022.
  • “What Where, and Why Is Interdisciplinarity in the 2020s,” Southeastern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association Biennial Conference, March 2022.
  • “African American History in NOVA: A Beginning,” Diversity and Equity Committee of the Junior League of Northern Virginia, February 2022.
  • “The Role of the Federal Government in Housing Discrimination and Local Activism,” Landlord and Tenant Relations Board, January 2022.
  • “Race-Based Discrimination in Alexandria’s Restrictive Covenants and Zoning Ordinances,” Landlord and Tenant Relations Board, October 2021.
  • “Taking a Deeper Dive: What is the Context, Historically and Culturally, of the AAPI Experience?” History and Social Science Program, Virginia Department of Education, October 2021.
  • “Alexandria’s African American Maritime Waterfront Trail,” Office of Historic Alexandria’s Juneteenth Celebration, June 2021.
  • “Immigrant Alexandria Q&A,” with City Historian, Dan Lee, ACT for Alexandria’s IMPACT Forum, June 2021.
  • “Finding a Place to Call Home: Everyday Life for African Americans in Jim Crow Alexandria, Virginia,” Equity in Preservation: Office of Historic Alexandria’s Preservation History Month Lecture Series, May 2021.
  • “Alexandria Housing and Segregationist Practices,” St. Paul’s Episcopal Church’s Exploring Systematic Racism Lecture Series, March 2021.
  • “Race and Place in Alexandria, Virginia,” Ramsey Homes Symposium, Office of Historic Alexandria, February 2021.
  • “Marietta Minnigerode Andrews: White Womanhood and the Arts,” Tudor Place, Washington, D.C., November 2020.
  • “How was Race Constructed through the Law in Virginia?” with Erin Devlin, UMW Race and Reality Forum, October 2020.
  • “Identification and Documentation Tools for African American Historic Places,” Preservation Virginia, March 2020.
  • “Navigating Everyday Life in Jim Crow Alexandria,” Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)/Office of Historic Alexandria, November 2019.
  • “Two Racialized Regimes: Everyday Migrations between Virginia and Washington, DC, 1880s-1920s,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, November 2019.
  • “From Arlandria to Chirilagua: The Remaking of a Northern Virginia Neighborhood, 1960s-1980s,” Episcopal High School’s Community Engagement Program, November 2019.
  • “The Immigrant and African American Experience in Northern Virginia,” panelist, Society for American City and Regional Planning History Annual Conference, October 2019.
  • “Pageants and Monuments: Southern Jews and Public Memorialization,” moderator and commentator, Southern Jewish Historical Society, October 2019.
  • “Immigration and Exclusion: The Chinese American Experience,” UMW ElderStudy, September 2019.
  • “Where Allies are Key: Student Discussions around American Immigration,” Southern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association Conference, March 2019.
  • “Migrations to and beyond Atlanta,” chair, Southern Regional Chapter of the American Studies Association Conference, March 2019.
  • “Kim Loo Sisters,” with Leslie Li (documentarian), Talk Story (1882 Foundation/OCA-DC/Chinese American Citizens Alliance), October 2017.
  • “Sites of Circulation: American Theaters in the Late Nineteenth Century,” chair/commentator, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, April 2017.
  • “Popular Musical Migrations,” chair, Southern Regional American Studies Association Conference, March 2017.
  • “Making Diaspora in Latin America,” chair, Southern Regional American Studies Association Conference, March 2017.
  • “Committee on American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers II: Centering the ‘Home’ of American Studies in the Undergraduate Classroom,” roundtable panelist, American Studies Association, November 2016.
  • “From Arlandria to Chirilagua: The Remaking of a Northern Virginia Neighborhood, 1960s-1980s,” Southern Historical Association, October 2016
  • “Making Arlandria Home: The Changing Face(s) of an Alexandria, Neighborhood, 1960s-1980s,” Alexandria Historical Society, September 2016
  • “The Making of the Modern Visa: American Immigration Policies, Legal Entry, and the Body Politic, 1880s-1940s,” panelist, Japanese Association for American Studies Annual Meeting, June 2016.
  • “Committee on Departments, Centers, and Programs: American Studies on a Shoestring… When you are the Shoestring,” roundtable panelist, American Studies Association, October 2015.
  • “Freedom and Property Ownership in Alexandria,” 50th Anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act and the Civil Rights Movement, September 2015.
  • “Immigrant Alexandria: Northern Virginia’s Immigration History and Bringing it into the Classroom,” Virginia Humanities Conference, April 2015.
  • “Immigrant Alexandria: Website Construction and Collaboration with Students,” Digital Scholarship Colloquium, March 2015.
  • “Chinese Americans in Vaudeville, 1880s-1920s,” Talk Story (1882 Foundation/OCA-DC/Chinese American Citizens Alliance), March 2015
  • “Foreign Students and the U.S. Immigration Bureau, 1880s-1910s,” Social Sciences Research Colloquium, University of Mary Washington, March 2015
  • “Finding the Fort: A History of an African American Neighborhood, 1860s-1960s,” Ad Hoc Fort Ward Park & Museum Area Stakeholders, June 2014
  • “Dreaming of Plaid: Ethnic Revivalism and Race Relations in Post-World War II Northern Virginia,” Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2014.
  • “Blending the Dreamy Mysticism of the East with the Prosaic Culture of the West:” Alla Nazimova and The Red Lantern (1919),” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 2014.
  • “Immigration and Community in Three Virginia Contexts,” moderator, Virginia Forum, March 2014.
  • “Pinterest in the Classroom: Case Studies in History and American Studies,” Virginia’s First Annual Open and Digital Learning Resources Conference, October 2013.
  • “Featured Panel: A Domain of One’s Own,” Virginia’s First Annual Open and Digital Learning Resources Conference, October 2013.
  • “Making Alexandria Scottish: Ethnic Revivalism in Post-World War II Virginia,” Virginia Forum, March 2013.
  • “Our Forgotten History:  The History of Asians and Asian Americans in the American Entertainment Industry, 1880s-1920s,” AASA Keynote Speaker, Georgia Tech, February 2013.
  • “To “Produce a Happy and Prosperous People:” Work, Land, and Everyday Life for African American Residents at Fairfax Seminary, Virginia, 1870s-1910s,” Southern Regional American Studies Association Conference, February 2013.
  • “UMW E-Portfolio Pilot: What Did We Learn?” Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, May 2012.
  • “The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and South Challenges Asian American Studies Revisited,” roundtable, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, April 2012.  
  • “Programmatic Assessment in History and American Studies,” UMW Assessment Forum, April 2012.
  • “There’s No Place Like Home:” The African American Housing Crisis in Alexandria, Virginia, 1940s-1960s,” Virginia Forum, March 2012.
  • “Screening of The Red Lantern,” Chesapeake Regional American Studies Association Conference, March 2012.
  • “A Forgotten History: Chinese Americans and the Vaudeville Stage, 1900s-1930s,” MURAP Annual Conference, UNC-Chapel Hill, July 2011.
  • “The Possibilities and Limitations of E-Portfolios: Three Case Studies,” Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, May 2011.
  • “The Southern Landscape since the 1950s,” chair/commentator, Southern Regional American Studies Association Conference, February 2011
  • “Yellowface, Yellow Peril during The Red Lantern: Early Cinema in Dialogue with Historical Setting and Context,” Vlaamse Dienst voor Filmcultuur (VDFC), Brussels, Belgium, October 2010.
  • “Digital Fluency, Online Communication, History and American Studies: One Department’s Engagement with Social Media and Pedagogy,” Faculty Academy, University of Mary Washington, May 2010.
  • “Northern Virginia/DC Spaces,” chair/commentator, Southern Regional American Studies Association Conference, February 2009.
  • “The Emergence of Temporary Immigrant Categories in the United States, 1880s-1930s,” Social Sciences Research Colloquium, University of Mary Washington, November 2008.
  • “‘On a Temporary Basis’: The Emergence of Temporary Immigrant Categories in the United States, 1880s-1930s,” The Historical Society Conference, June 2008.
  • “The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and South Challenges Asian American Studies Revisited,” roundtable, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, April 2008.  
  • “Intersections in American Foreign Policy and Immigration, 1945-1990,” Tea for TESOL, Nov. 2007.
  • “The Emergence of Temporary Immigrant Categories: Asian Entertainers and American Immigration Law, 1880s-1930s,” American Studies Association Conference, Oct. 2007.
  • “Researching Asian American History at the Library of Congress: Anecdotes from a Junior Scholar,” National Conference for the Establishment of an Asian Pacific American Collection at the Library of Congress, Oct. 2007.
  • “Asian American Vaudevillians,” Friends of the Asian Reading Room, Library of Congress, May 2007.
  • “The Great Third Coast: How Teaching in the Midwest and South Challenges Asian American Studies,” roundtable, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, April 2007.  
  • “Guest Workers of a Different Kind: Immigration and American Entertainment Industry, 1880s-1920s.” John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Oct. 2006
  • “Visibility in American Entertainment and Performers of Asian Descent, 1920s-1930s,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, March 2006.
  • “Asian American Studies and the Research University,” roundtable, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, March 2006.
  • “K-12 AAAS Educators Institute,” workshop, Association for Asian American Studies Conference, March 2006.
  • “Performing Race: Asians and Asian Americans in Vaudeville, 1880s-1930s,” American Studies  Association Conference, Nov. 2005.
  • “Looking at Acrobats: Chinese Performers and Globalization, 1850s-1930s,” Branching Out the Banyan Tree: A Changing Chinese America, Chinese Historical Society of America, Oct. 2005. 
  • Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s, book talk, Branching Out the Banyan Tree: A Changing Chinese America, Chinese Historical Society of America, Oct. 2005.“Dancing to the Music: Identity and Performance,” chair/commentator, American Studies Association Conference, Nov. 2004.
  • “Finding the Beginning of Musical Expression: The St. Louis World’s Fair and the Racialization of Culture,” Performing Ethnicity: International Conference and Arts Festival, Oct. 2004.
  • “Negotiating Race: Subversion and the Rise of the Chinese American Vaudevillian, 1900s- 1920s,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, May 2003.
  • “Miners, Musicians, and Chinese Immigrants: The Rise of Yellowface in the Far West, 1850- 1870,” SHEAR (Society of Historians of the Early American Republic) Conference, July 2002.
  • “Lee Tung Foo and the Creation of a Chinese American Vaudevillian, 1890s-1910s,” American Seminar, The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Dec. 2001.
  • “The Creation of the Chinese Immigrant in American Music: The California Gold Rush and Blackface Minstrelsy, 1850-1870,” American Studies Association Conference, Nov. 2001.
  • “Patriotism, Music, and Consumption: The Failure of Anti-Japanese Music during World War II,” American Historical Association Conference, Jan. 2001
  • “Towards Exclusion: American Popular Songs on Chinese Immigration, 1850-1883,” American Music History Seminar, American Antiquarian Society, Sept. 2000.
  • “Ethnicity and American Song in 19th Century California,” Scholarly Sustenance, Huntington Library, June 2000.
  • “From Heathen Chinese to Chinatowns: Lyrical and Musical Constructions of Chinese Immigrants in American Popular Song, 1870-1910,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, May 2000.
  • “‘There’s no Yellow in the Red, White, and Blue’: The Production and Reception of Anti-Japanese Music during World War II,” Joint Annual Meeting of the ASA-CAAS, Oct. 1999.

Professional and Community Affiliations:

  • Alexandria Historical Society (2017-2021)
    • Newsletter Editor (2020-2021)
    • Executive Board (2017-2021)
    • President (2018-2020)
    • Newsletter Editor (2020-2021)
  • American Historical Association (1999-Present)
  • American Studies Association (1999-Present)
    • American Studies Association-Japanese Association for American Studies Project
      • Advisory Committee (2017-2022)
      • Co-Chair (2018-2021)
    • Southern Regional American Studies Association (2008-Present)
      • President (2014-2018)
      • Vice President (2013-2014)
      • Executive Board (2008-2024)
      • Program Committee (2008-2010)
  • Association for Asian American Studies (1999-Present)
    • Program Committee (2010-2011)
    • History Book Award Committee (2008-2009)
    • Site Committee Co-Chair, Atlanta (2005-2006)
    • K-12 Educator’s Institute on Asian Americans Coordinator (2005-2006)
  • Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2006-Present)
    • Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award Committee (2020-2021)
  • Korean American Coalition (1999-2005)
  • Organization of American Historians (1999-Present)

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