Managing Board
Henry Yu
University of California, Los Angeles and University of British Columbia http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/yu/ Henry Yu is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His research interests include American intellectual history, 20th century America, Asian American history, race and immigration, and social science and social theory in the U.S. and Europe. In 2002, he was awarded the Norris and Carol Hundley Prize for Most Distinguished Book of 2001 from the AHA-PCB for Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America. He has also published numerous articles on race, gender, and culture, including “Orientalizing the Pacific Rim: The Production of Exotic Knowledge By American Missionaries and Sociologists in the 1920’s” and is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Race, Culture, and Marketing in America.
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