Education
• Ph.D. program, University of Southern California, American Studies & Ethnicity (2002-present)
• Ph.D. program, New York University, American Studies (2000-2002)
• B.A., University of California at San Diego, Ethnic Studies (1994-1998)
• Monterey High School (1990-1994)

Intellectual Interests
• Almost anything, but I'm not a film snob, so please don't talk to me about overrated films like Scarface, The Godfather, and Apocolypse Now. I enjoy watching plenty of sports, but my Giants, 49ers, and Lakers are playing at a mediocre level at the moment. Even Roger Federer is struggling, at least by his lofty standards.

Ph.D. Dissertation Topic
• The first ever social and cultural history of Little Saigon. It's not the sexiest topic, but hey, it's never been done before by any academic, so why not give it a shot?

Publications
• Book Review of Viet Nguyen's Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, published in Amerasia Journal (20:3) 2004-2005

Fellowships
• Dora and John Randolph Haynes Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008)
• FLAS fellowship to attend SEASSI 2006
• Irvine Foundation Fellowship, USC (2002-2004)
• McCracken Fellowship, NYU (2000-2002)
• UC Undegraduate Summer Research Grant, UCSD (1997)
 
Summer 2007 plans
Now that the dissertation is coming along well, I can enjoy learning Vietnamese this summer in Hanoi and Saigon as I venture to the country of my birth for the first time since I said Hasta La Vista in 1977 (Well, I probably just cried since I was only a toddler). I don't know anybody in Hanoi or Saigon, and I won't enjoy being away from Betty for two months. The main reason I'm going to Vietnam is because I can't figure out a faster way to learn the language in one summer. Let's hope my roommate takes his education as seriously as I do.
 
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