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| Vernadette
Gonzalez , Assistant Professor |
Vernadette
Gonzalez earned her BA in English Literature
with certificates in African
American Studies and Theater and Dance from Princeton University
in 1996. She finished her PhD in Ethnic Studies at the University
of California, Berkeley in 2004. Her areas of specialization include
studies of tourism and militarism, transnational cultural studies,
feminist theory, post-colonial studies, Asian American cultural
and literary studies, and globalization studies with a focus on
the Asia-Pacific.
She
has previously taught in the Ethnic Studies
Department and the Women’s Studies Department at UC Berkeley
and the Global Studies Department at St. Lawrence University. She
will be teaching AMST 150 “America and the World” regularly
for the American Studies Department, as well as courses on sexuality,
gender, fashion, militarism and tourism.
Professor
Gonzalez’s current projects include a book manuscript, which
seeks to interrogate the links between modern military and touristic
ideologies, cultures, and technologies of mobility and surveillance
in the Philippines and Hawai‘i. It hopes to illustrate how
the roots and routes of the US military are foundational to tourist
itineraries, as well as how modern tourism is central to the mission
of unilateral American militarism. This project interrogates the
seeming contradictions between the promise of modernity, mobility,
capital and “development” held out by tourism and militarism,
and the necessary economic and social asymmetries that enable touristic
and militaristic dependence in the postcolonial geographies of the
Asia-Pacific. She is also currently revising a chapter on tourism
and militarism in Bataan and Corregidor for publication in Gender
and Militarism Across the Asia-Pacific (edited by Setsu Shigematsu
and Keith Lujan Camacho), as well as writing chapters on colonial
anthropology’s legacies for tourism in Commodity Racism:
Representation, Racialization and Resistance (edited by C. Richard
King) and Performing Ethnicity (edited by Priscelina Patajo-Legasto,
Joi Barrios and Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns).
Other
ongoing projects include a collaboration with Mimi Nguyen on the
politics of transnational queer scholarship and an article on the
feminist politics of the Hawaiian quilt as a symbol of Hawaiian
indigeneity and product of Asian labor.
Her
published work can be found in several collections, including AsianAmerica.Net
(Routledge, 2004), and Alien Encounters: Asian Americans in Popular
Culture (Duke UP, 2007).
When
not at work on her book, she is can be found bike-commuting her
2 year old daughter to preschool, the pool, and the playground.
She used to have a social life.
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