Faculty

Hsu, Madeline
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Asian American Studies

Office: GAR 3.222
Office Hours: Spring 2009: M 1:30-3:00 PM, W 1:30-3:00 PM and by appt.
Phone: 512-475-7850
myhsu@mail.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., History, 1996, Yale University

Research interests:
Asian American studies, migration, transnationalism, and ethnic studies.

Courses taught:
Hsu has taught courses titled Chinese in the United States, Introduction to Asian American Studies, History of Chinese Overseas, History of Modern China, and Taiwan: Colonization, Migration, and Identity.

Geographic Area(s) of Study: United States, East Asia

Thematic Field(s): Diaspora and Migration; Empire and Globalization; Gender, Sexuality and Family; International Relations; Race, Ethnicity and Nation

Awards/Honors:
2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award for "Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and Southern China, 1882-1943" (Stanford University Press, 2000)

Recent Publications:
“Exporting Homosociality: Culture and Community in Chinatown America, 1882-1943.” In Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China, edited by Wen-hsin Yeh, David Strand, and Sherman Cochran. Center for East Asian Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 2007. Pp. 219-246.

"Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture" (Temple University Press, 2008). Essay collection co-edited with Sucheng Chan with contributions from Sucheng Chan, Josephine Fowler, Madeline Hsu, Karen Leong, Andrea Louie, Mae Ngai, K. Scott Wong, Judy Wu, and Xiaojian Zhao.

"From Chop Suey to Mandarin Cuisine: Fine Dining and the Refashioning of Chinese Ethnicity during the Cold War Era." Article in "Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture."
Editor, "Transnational Politics and the Press in Chinese American History: Collected Essays of Him Mark Lai." Forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press.