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| Vernadette
Gonzalez , Assistant Professor
and Undergraduate Chair |
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, postcolonial 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, militarism and tourism
and empire. She is currently serving as the Undergraduate Chair
for the department.
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 an article on the transnational
feminist politics of the Hawaiian quilt for a collection on Asian/Latin
American/Pacific encounters, and articles on ethnic tourism in Sagada,
Philippines and the Polynesian Cultural Center in Oahu for journals.
Her
published work can be found in several collections, including AsianAmerica.Net
(Routledge, 2004), Alien Encounters: Asian Americans in Popular
Culture (Duke UP, 2007) and Frontiers: A Journal of Women
Studies (Summer 2007). A chapter on tourism and militarism
in Bataan and Corregidor is slated for publication in De/militarizing
Currents: Gender, Race and Colonialism Across Asia and the Pacific
(edited by Setsu Shigematsu and Keith Lujan Camacho, University
of Minnesota Press, forthcoming Fall 2009).
Her
other projects include coordinating “And Justice for All,”
a collaborative art exhibit about political killings in the Philippines
and other US “states of terror.” (November 2008, thirtyninehotel
gallery, Honolulu, HI).
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