Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

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Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Alma mater Stanford University (Ph.D)
Occupation(s)Professor of History and Asian American Studies at UC Irvine

Associate Dean, School of Humanities Director, Humanities Center

Director, Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging (C-LAB)

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EmployerUC Irvine

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is an activist, historian, and Asian American Studies Professor at the University of California, Irvine, where she also serves as the director of the Humanities program. She taught at Ohio State University from 1998 to 2015 and at the University of Chicago from 2005 to 2006. She received her PhD in U.S. History from Stanford University in 1998. Her main areas of research include U.S. History, Asian Americans, women, immigration, gender, and sexuality. Currently, she is researching the Asian American women who attended the 1977 National Women’s Conference.

Biography

Aside from teaching, she has been involved in a variety of educational/activist efforts, such as speaking on C-SPAN, participating on the National Women's History Museum's Speaker Bureau, [1] advocating for Asian American and Pacific Islander education at Stanford University through SAPAAC (Strengthening Asian American Studies at Stanford), [2] working as an advisor for The Beginnings of Activism for the Department of Asian American Studies (BADAAS) at the University of California Irvine, [3] writing for Time magazine [4] writing for Ms., [5] and editing for Amerasia Journal . [6]

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu also contributes to a variety of activist based projects and organizational efforts. She serves as faculty director of the Stories by the Sea Project, [7] a collaboratory project between the UCI Humanities Center, the Newport Beach Library Foundation, UCI Center for storytelling, UCI Libraries, and the UCI History Department. This project pushes students to examine how the vastness of the sea can bridge the gaps between the past, present, and future. She is also a research lead for the Learning From Our AAPI Leaders Project at UC Irvine [8] and a project lead for the Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment Project (VOICE). [9] She is one of the Faculty Principal Investigators/Mentors for the #EmpireSuffrageSyllabus project, [10] a collaboration between faculty at the University of California and the Women and Social Movements journal and database published by Alexander Street/ProQuest that contains a comprehensive collection of modules and resources with the purpose of rethinking U.S. Women's Suffrage. She is also a project lead for Sharing Comfort and Care at UC Irvine, [11] a project dedicated to representing intergenerational connections using migration and food. This project tells the story of two underrepresented groups within the AAPI community, Cambodians and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders

Career

Books

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu has authored, co-authored, and edited many academic publications:

Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: A Life of a Wartime Celebrity (2005) [12] [13]

Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (2013) [14] [15]

Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress [16]

Podcasts

"Why I Became a Professor of Asian American Studies: The Takeover: May 15, 1989,” A Digital Narrative, May–April 2009 [17]

"My Personal Story and Political Take on Immigration: A Trip Down Immigration Lane,” A Digital Narrative, October 2010 [18]

Films

Margaret Chung- First American Born Chinese Doctor (1889-1959) [19]

Awards

“Democratizing Politics: Mapping the Stories and Significance of the 1977 National Women’s Conference,” Subrecipient, National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant (2022)

Dynamic Womxn of UCI, Tamara Austin Legacy Award, University of California, Irvine (2021)

Rising Together, Thriving Together Conference, Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, DREAM Center, University of California, Irvine (2021)

Leading and Learning Initiative Stories of Change Case Study, Co-Principal Investigator, Imagining America: Artists + Scholars in Public Life, Davis, California (2021)

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship, Recipient for the School of Humanities, Division of Undergraduate Education, University of California, Irvine (2020-2021)

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research, School of Humanities and University of California, Irvine, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (2019)

The CCC Faculty/Staff Ally Award, University of California, Irvine, The Cross-Cultural Center (2018)

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  2. ↑ "Asian American Studies". SAPAAC - Stanford Asian Pacific American Alumni Club. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  3. ↑ "About Us – The Beginnings of Activism for the Department of Asian American Studies at UCI" . Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. ↑ Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy; Mink, Gwendolyn (June 1, 2022). "Judy Tzu-Chun Wu". Time. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  5. ↑ Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy; Mink, Gwendolyn (June 1, 2022). "Judy Tzu-Chun Wu". Time. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  6. ↑ "News". www.aasc.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  7. ↑ "About Us – Stories from the Sea" . Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  8. ↑ "Learning from Our Asian American and Pacific Islander Leaders" . Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  9. ↑ "Visualizing Our Identities and Culture for Empowerment". sites.uci.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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  11. ↑ "Home". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  12. ↑ Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy (2005). Doctor Mom Chung of the fair-haired bastards : the life of a wartime celebrity. University of California Press. ISBN   0-520-24143-6. OCLC   55616027.
  13. ↑ "8. Becoming Mom Chung", Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards, University of California Press, pp. 119–135, 2019-12-31, doi:10.1525/9780520938922-009, ISBN   9780520938922, S2CID   226792057 , retrieved 2022-06-05
  14. ↑ Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy (2013). Radicals on the road : internationalism, orientalism, and feminism during the Vietnam Era. Cornell University Press. ISBN   978-0-8014-4675-7. OCLC   840807522.
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  18. ↑ A Trip Down Immigration Lane , retrieved 2022-06-05
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