“In the multiversity, these chapters testify, Asian American and Asian immigrant women scholars’ unique contributions in teacher education, in language teaching, in the pedagogies of difference and in other fields, are being recognized, albeit sometimes reluctantly and slowly. These chapters speak to the value--strategic, capitalistic, and humanist--North American universities have placed on the stranger and the strange knowledge the stranger carries with her identity. Their presence and scholarship are changing not just the face but the definition of higher education itself.”—from the Foreword by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

Foreword
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, UC Santa Barbara and University of Hong Kong

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Asian Female Scholars’ New Stories of Self: Re-constructing Culture and Identity in the Academy
Guofang Li, SUNY at Buffalo
Gulbahar Beckett, University of Cincinnati


Part I: Asian Female Scholars in Context

Chapter 1 Asian Pacific American Women and Men in Higher Education: The Contested Spaces of Their Participation, Persistence, and Challenges as Students, Faculty, and Administrators
Shirley Hune, UCLA

Chapter 2 Asian Male vs. Female College Students’ Career Paths: Interaction of Gender and Race
Jaekyung Lee, SUNY at Buffalo

Chapter 3 Asian Women Faculty of Color: Theorizing Our Lived Experiences
Angel Lin, City University of Hong Kong
Ryuko Kubota, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Su Motha, University of Maryland
Wendy Wang, Eastern Michigan State University
Shelley Wong, George Mason University


Part II: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising, and Securing Tenure

Chapter 4 Professing in a Non-Native Tongue: Narratives of Three Chinese-Speaking Women Faculty
Xiaoping Liang, California State University, Long Beach

Chapter 5 Mentors and Role Models: My Story of Being an Asian Female Faculty
Keiko Komiya Samimy, The Ohio State University

Chapter 6 Navigating Multiple Roles and Multiple Discourses: A Young Asian Female Scholar’s Reflection on Supervising and Teaching Fellow Asian Students
Guofang Li, SUNY at Buffalo

Chapter 7 Asian Women Warriors of the Academia: Struggles and Strategies for Promotion
Chalsa Loo, National Center for PTSD, Honolulu
Hsiu Zu Ho, UC Santa Barbara


Part III: Gaining Voice, Forming Identity

Chapter 8 Brown in Black-and-White: On Being a South Asian Woman Academic
Nina Asher, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Chapter 9 Unmasking the Self: Struggling with Model Minority Stereotype and Lotus Blossom Image.
Eunai Shrake, California State University, Northridge

Chapter 10 Within the Safe Haven of “Women’s Studies”: A Thai Female Faculty’s Reflection on Identity and Scholarship
Piya Pangsapa, SUNY at Buffalo

Chapter 11 Between the Worlds: Searching for a Competent Voice
Yan Guo, University of Calgary, Canada

Chapter 12 Modesty, Moderation, Passion, and Chutzpah: A Chinese-American Medical Professor Speaks
Gulbahar H. Beckett and Jianhua Zhang, University of Cincinnati


Part IV: Building Bridges, Building Future

Chapter 13 The Road Less Traveled: An Asian Woman Immigrant Faculty’s Journey Integrating Global Pedagogy into Teacher Education
Guichun Zong, Georgia State University

Chapter 14 From Mentorship to Friendship, Collaboration, and Collegiality
Xue Lan Rong, School of Education, UNC-Chapel Hill
Judith Preissle, College of Education, UGA, Athens

Chapter 15 Building Bridges, Working For A Better World
Jing Lin, University of Maryland


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