Dr. Peter Chua

Chua mentors undergraduate doing social research.

Dr. Peter Chua (right) mentored undergraduate student Ayana
McNair (left) on her pathbreaking research on Oakland Black
community's understandings of police brutality. In Fall 2003, she
starts her M.A./Ph.D. program at University of Southern California.

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Dr. Peter Chua, Associate Professor

Peter Chua, Ph.D. is associate professor of sociology at the San José State University, San José CA, USA. He published numerous studies, has first-hand research experience of the Philippines, Thailand, and India, and has presented his research in South Africa, Australia, and the USA. He is an elected board member of the Research Committee on Social Transformation and the Sociology of Development for the International Sociological Association. He is an engaged member of global grassroots organizations campaigning on human rights and economic justice in the Third World.

Department of Sociology
One Washington Square (0122)
San José State University
San José CA 95192-0122
Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 223
Phone: (408) 924-5337
Fax: (408) 924-5322
pchua@sjsu.edu

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Sociology, San José State University (2007-Present)
Assistant Professor, Sociology, San José State University (2001-2007)
Instructor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998, 2000-1)

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2001)
M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1996)
B.S., Physics, University of Texas, Austin (1991)

Courses Taught

SJSU Sociology/MUSE 30: Question Authority and Survive (first-year undergraduate seminar)
SJSU Sociology 101 Social Theory
SJSU Sociology 116 Global Society
SJSU Sociology 116 Global Society: Global Youth Culture and Resistance
SJSU Sociology 162 Racial and Ethnic Relations
SJSU Sociology 196H Experimental Course: Human Rights and Justice
SJSU Sociology 201A Sociological Theory I (graduate)
UCSB Sociology 4 Sociological Research Traditions
UCSB Sociology 126 Global Urban Communities
UCSB Sociology 185S Marginalization, Struggle, Change: Topics In Social Theory

Invited Public Lectures

2004 "Post-9/11 Bello-ism: Mixing Filipino Politics and World Forums," Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University
2004 "Condom Matters and Social Inequalites," Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
2001 "Condoms and Racial Inclusion," Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2000 "Working with Condoms," Department of Sociology, Pomona College
2000 "Condom Matters: Commodity Fetishism and Making Change," Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene

Professional Activities

Board Member, Research Committee on Social Transformation and Sociology of Development (RC09), International Sociological Assocation Section on Sexualities, 2007-Present.
Conference Program Committee Member, Pacific Sociological Association 2008 Annual Meeting, 2007-Present.
Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Sexualities, 2004-2007
Board of Editors, Filipino Living Struggle: Histories of Neocolonialism, Dictatorships, Diaspora, and Resistance (CFFSC's curriculum project)
Reviewer for Academic Journals: Gender and Society, Meridians, Social Forces, and Sociological Perspectives.
Academic Reviewer for: National Science Foundation.
Member: American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Critical Filipina & Filipino Studies Collective.
Reviewer for: Prentice-Hall, Roxbury Publishers, and Polity Press.

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

Academic Senate Professional Development Grant, San Jose State University (2006).
College of Social Sciences Research Writing Grant, San Jose State University (2006).
Named "Most Influential Professor," College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University (2004, 2005, 2006).
Donald Cressey Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003).
Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California Office of the President (1999).
Pacific Rim Research Grant, University of California Office of the President (1998).
M.A. Honors Pass, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1996).

General Areas of Research

Global Human Rights and Social Justice
Social Inequalities & Sexualities in the Third World
Southeast Asian Studies
Comparative Political Cultures
Text Processing, Scalable Knowledge Structures & Social Network Attributes

Ongoing & Previous Research Projects

Migrant Variations and Gendered Low-Wage Job Clusters in U.S. Cities Project
- Multi-Group Analysis
- Studying Human Resources Professionals
- Occupational Gender Segregation and U.S. Filipinos
Understandings of Sex Trafficking of Asian Women in California (Co-Principal Investigator with Yoko Baba and Amy Leisenring)
Ethnographic Projects on the World System
- Condoms and Transparent Inequalities: Knowledge, Markets and Social Change
- Global Homeland Security Racism and the Removal of Migrant Workers
- Women, Culture and Third World Development
- Social Democratic Formations in Southeast Asia: Trajectories, Political Cultures, and Social Forums (in development)

Academic Publications

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today with Wendy Ng and Edith Wen-Chua Chen (under contract with Greenwood Publishing Group).
"Orientalism," Sociology Compass (forthcoming).
"U.S. Empire and Social Thought: Dewey, Mead, and the Philippine Problem." Philosophy Today (forthcoming).
“Cultural Racism,” with Carol Mukhopadhyay in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John Moore. Macmillian Publisher. (in press)
"Extrajudical Troubles and Human Rights Violations: A Reply," Sociological Forum (2007, forthcoming).
“Corporatizing Public Education in the Philippines: The Case of USAID and the Ayala Foundation,” Pp. 115-125 in Mula Tore Patungong Palengke: Neoliberal Education in the Philippines, edited by Bienvenido Lumbera, Ramon Guillermo, and Arnold Alamon. Quezon City, Philippines: IBON. (2007).
“Manifest Destiny” and “Orientalism,” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (2007).
“Bloodshed and Coercive Communal Peace Negotiations: Some Hallmarks of the Macapagal-Arroyo Presidency,” in Kontra-Gahum: Academics Against Political Killings, edited by R. Tolentino and S. Raymundo. Quezon City, Philippines: IBON Publishing. (2006).
"Analyzing Condoms as Global Sexual Commodities." In Handbook of the New Sexualities Studies, edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fisher, and Chet Meeks. New York: Routlege. (2006).
“Family Planning (Birth Control)” and “Sexuality and Development,” in Encyclopedia of International Development, edited by T. Forsyth. London: Routledge. (2005).
"Governing Migrants' Sexual Behavior: Work, HIV/AIDS, and Condom Use Campaigns in Southeast Asia." Pp. 165-84 in Revising Risk: Health Inequality and Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks (2003).
"Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices." Pp. 124-8 in Feminist Futures: Reimaging Women, Culture, and Development, edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian. London: Zed Press (2003).
Resisting Homeland Security: Organzing Against Unjust Removals of U.S. Filipinos, with the Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective. San Jose, CA: Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective. (2004).
"Orientalism in U.S. Sociology and a Century of Filipino Insurgencies Against U.S. Empire." From the Left 25(1):3-4, 8, a section newsletter of the American Sociological Association. (2004)
"Anti-War Statement of Filipino Educators." Pp. 417-9 in Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, edited by M. Evelina Galang. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. (2003)
Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20: The Comparative Study of Conscription In the Armed Forces, edited by Lars Mjøset and Stephen Van Holde. Contemporary Sociology 32(6):749-50 (2003).
Governments and Politics In Southeast Asia, edited by John Funston. Progress In Development Studies 3(1):82-3 (2003).
Identities In Talk, edited by Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe. Contemporary Sociology 30:47-8 (2001).
"From Critical Psychology to Critical Development Studies," with Kum-Kum Bhavnani. Critical Psychology 1(1):62-78 (2001).
"Condom Advocacy, Its Arguments, Its Organizations, and Its Representations: A Comparative Study of Health Promotion Campaigns in Bangkok, Manila, New Delhi, and San Francisco." UCOP Pacific Rim Research Program Technical Report. Oakland, CA: University of California Office of the President (2001).
"Women, Culture, Development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies?," with Kum-Kum Bhavnani and John Foran. Ethnic and Racial Studies 23(5):820-41 (2000). Reprinted in Gender and Development, edited by B. N. Ghosh and Parvesh K. Chopra. Leeds, UK: Wisdom House Publications (2002).
Condom Matters and Social Inequalities, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (2001).
"Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities: Attitudes and Gender Expectations," with Diane Fujino. Journal of Men's Studies 7(3):391-413 (1999).

Presentations & Others Activities

Discussant, Panel on “Mediating Contemporary Filipino American Cultures.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting (2007)
Discussant, Panel on “APA Studies, Campus and Community Leadership Development, and Multicultural Coalition Building.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting (2007)
Roundtable Co-Organizer, American Sociological Association Section of Political Economy of the World System (2002)
Invited Presider, Refereed Roundtable on “Globalization and Work,” Section on Asia and Asian America (2001)
Invited Discussant, Panel on “Is the Future of Revolutions Feminist?,” The Future of Revolutions in the Context of Globalization Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (2001)
Paper Presentations:

“Filipinos Evading States and Empire, Remaking the Politics of Gendered Work and Diaspora,” International Sociological Association XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa. (2006)
“Shifting Immigration,” Dean's Honors Symposium, College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. (2005)
“The Impacts of Homeland Security Racism on Filipinos,” Critical Filipino Perspectives on Homeland Security Racism Symposium, Universisty of California, Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and the UCB Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Working Group, Berkeley, CA. (2005)
“Sexing Capitalism: Condoms and Industrial Change,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (2004)
“Whose Words? Filipino Immigrant Workers Speak on Citizenship, Labor, and Justice,” with Robyn Rodriguez, After 9/11: The New Militarism and the Question of Belonging Symposium, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. (2004)
“Globalizing Sexualities, Sexing Global Projects,” Queer Imaginaries Conference, Sex, Race, and Globalization Project (Rockefeller Foundation), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (2004)
“Women, Condoms, and International Development: A Socio-Cultureal Analysis,” Gender and Development Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas, City, MO. (2004)
“Doing Gramsci’s Cultural Education: Antiracism and Gendered Sexuality in the NABWMT,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (2003)
“A Schizoanalysis of the Basic Problems of the Philippines: The Sociological Imaginations of J. M. Sison, 1970s & 2000s.” Institute of Culture and Society, University of California, Davis, CA. (2003)
“Condom Matters and Social Inequalities: Research, Teaching and Future Directions,” Donald Cressey Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. (2003)
“The Sexualities of Globalization,” Invited Paper, Towards a Critical Globalization Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. (2003)
“Demilitarizing the State, Remilitarizing Everyday Lives of Southeast Asian Migrants: Legacies and Trajectories of Security and Governmentality,” with Robyn M. Rodriguez, Annual Conference for the Center For Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA. (2003)
“Sexualized Privatization As Economic Development: Women, Transnational Organizations, and Condom Social Marketing In India and the Philippines,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2002)
“HIV/AIDS and Migrant Sexualities in Southeast Asia: Government Quest For Control and Increase Condom Use,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2000)
“Activities of First World Governments in Philippine Condom Advocacy: Examining the Politics and Practice of Global Health Promotion,” Invited Paper, Emerging Public Health Issues in California’s Pacific Rim Community Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1999)
“Condom, Psychology, and the Prevalence of Consumption,” World Millennium Conference In Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. (1999)
“Occupational Segregation of U.S. Filipinos: The Effects of Gender and Period of Migration,” American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (1998)
“Condom, Gender, and Cultures in Global and Local Contexts,” Women/Culture/Development Graduate Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (1998)
“Coloring Communities: People of Color Redefine Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Terrains,” with Susana Peña and Beth Schneider, Special Session of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (1995)
“Bringing Up Gender and Race: Pertinent Questions In Facilitating Education,” Boundaries In Question Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA (1995)
“Asian and Pacific Americans: Stepping Off the Pedestal,” with M. Elliot, National Association of Campus Activities Regional Conference, Austin, TX (1990)

Service Activities (Partial List)

Community Involvement:

Invited Speaker, "Human Rights in the Philippines," International Human Rights Day, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA (2007)
Invited Speaker, "Homeland Security Racism and Asian Pacific Islanders," Asian Pacific Islander Month, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA (2004)
National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON-US), Committee Member on Homeland Security and Immigration Rights (2004-Present)
Filipino Community Center (FCC), San Francisco, CA, Research Consulant (2006)
Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), San José, CA, Board Member (2002-Present)

University:

University Program Planning Committee (2005-Present)
Progressive TeachSJSU Faculty E-Group, Facilitor (2003-Present)
Ad Hoc University Teach-In Committee (2002-3)

College of Social Sciences:

Web Advisory Committee (2003-2004)
Curriculum Committee (2002-Present)
Outstanding M.A. Thesis Sub-Committee, Research Committee (2002)

Department of Sociology:

Graduate Theory Committee (2002-Present)
Graduation Committee (2002, 2003)

Student Advising and Mentorship:

Filipino Political Affairs Association, SJSU, Faculty Advisor (2003-2005)
McNair Scholars, Faculty Mentor (2002-2004)
M.A. Thesis Committees, Member (2002-Present)
Drop-in Major Advising (2001-Present)

Last Updated: May 06

	Dr. Peter Chua (right) mentored undergraduate student Ayana McNair (left) on her pathbreaking research on Oakland Black community's understandings of police brutality. In Fall 2003, she starts her M.A./Ph.D. program at University of Southern California. Home > The Faculty > Information & Contact Dr. Peter Chua, Associate Professor Peter Chua, Ph.D. is associate professor of sociology at the San José State University, San José CA, USA. He published numerous studies, has first-hand research experience of the Philippines, Thailand, and India, and has presented his research in South Africa, Australia, and the USA. He is an elected board member of the Research Committee on Social Transformation and the Sociology of Development for the International Sociological Association. He is an engaged member of global grassroots organizations campaigning on human rights and economic justice in the Third World. Department of Sociology One Washington Square (0122) San José State University San José CA 95192-0122 Office: Dudley Moorhead Hall 223 Phone: (408) 924-5337 Fax: (408) 924-5322 pchua@sjsu.edu Academic Appointments Associate Professor, Sociology, San José State University (2007-Present) Assistant Professor, Sociology, San José State University (2001-2007) Instructor, Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1998, 2000-1) Education Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2001) M.A., Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1996) B.S., Physics, University of Texas, Austin (1991) Courses Taught SJSU Sociology/MUSE 30: Question Authority and Survive (first-year undergraduate seminar) SJSU Sociology 101 Social Theory SJSU Sociology 116 Global Society SJSU Sociology 116 Global Society: Global Youth Culture and Resistance SJSU Sociology 162 Racial and Ethnic Relations SJSU Sociology 196H Experimental Course: Human Rights and Justice SJSU Sociology 201A Sociological Theory I (graduate) UCSB Sociology 4 Sociological Research Traditions UCSB Sociology 126 Global Urban Communities UCSB Sociology 185S Marginalization, Struggle, Change: Topics In Social Theory Invited Public Lectures 2004 "Post-9/11 Bello-ism: Mixing Filipino Politics and World Forums," Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University 2004 "Condom Matters and Social Inequalites," Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara 2001 "Condoms and Racial Inclusion," Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2000 "Working with Condoms," Department of Sociology, Pomona College 2000 "Condom Matters: Commodity Fetishism and Making Change," Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, Eugene Professional Activities Board Member, Research Committee on Social Transformation and Sociology of Development (RC09), International Sociological Assocation Section on Sexualities, 2007-Present. Conference Program Committee Member, Pacific Sociological Association 2008 Annual Meeting, 2007-Present. Newsletter Editor, American Sociological Association Section on Sexualities, 2004-2007 Board of Editors, Filipino Living Struggle: Histories of Neocolonialism, Dictatorships, Diaspora, and Resistance (CFFSC's curriculum project) Reviewer for Academic Journals: Gender and Society, Meridians, Social Forces, and Sociological Perspectives. Academic Reviewer for: National Science Foundation. Member: American Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, Critical Filipina & Filipino Studies Collective. Reviewer for: Prentice-Hall, Roxbury Publishers, and Polity Press. Awards, Grants, and Fellowships Academic Senate Professional Development Grant, San Jose State University (2006). College of Social Sciences Research Writing Grant, San Jose State University (2006). Named "Most Influential Professor," College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University (2004, 2005, 2006). Donald Cressey Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2003). Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of California Office of the President (1999). Pacific Rim Research Grant, University of California Office of the President (1998). M.A. Honors Pass, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (1996). General Areas of Research Global Human Rights and Social Justice Social Inequalities & Sexualities in the Third World Southeast Asian Studies Comparative Political Cultures Text Processing, Scalable Knowledge Structures & Social Network Attributes Ongoing & Previous Research Projects Migrant Variations and Gendered Low-Wage Job Clusters in U.S. Cities Project Multi-Group Analysis Studying Human Resources Professionals Occupational Gender Segregation and U.S. Filipinos Understandings of Sex Trafficking of Asian Women in California (Co-Principal Investigator with Yoko Baba and Amy Leisenring) Ethnographic Projects on the World System Condoms and Transparent Inequalities: Knowledge, Markets and Social Change This project examines the ways that the production, international distribution, and local advocacy of condoms maintain social inequalities involving gender, class, sexuality, ‘race,’ and nation-states. Archival and interview data collected in Bangkok (Thailand), Manila (Philippines), New Delhi (India), San Francisco (USA), and Washington, DC (USA) Global Homeland Security Racism and the Removal of Migrant Workers Women, Culture and Third World Development Social Democratic Formations in Southeast Asia: Trajectories, Political Cultures, and Social Forums (in development) Academic Publications Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today with Wendy Ng and Edith Wen-Chua Chen (under contract with Greenwood Publishing Group). "Orientalism," Sociology Compass (forthcoming). "U.S. Empire and Social Thought: Dewey, Mead, and the Philippine Problem." Philosophy Today (forthcoming). “Cultural Racism,” with Carol Mukhopadhyay in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, edited by John Moore. Macmillian Publisher. (in press) "Extrajudical Troubles and Human Rights Violations: A Reply," Sociological Forum (2007, forthcoming). “Corporatizing Public Education in the Philippines: The Case of USAID and the Ayala Foundation,” Pp. 115-125 in Mula Tore Patungong Palengke: Neoliberal Education in the Philippines, edited by Bienvenido Lumbera, Ramon Guillermo, and Arnold Alamon. Quezon City, Philippines: IBON. (2007). “Manifest Destiny” and “Orientalism,” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Malden, MA: Blackwell. (2007). “Bloodshed and Coercive Communal Peace Negotiations: Some Hallmarks of the Macapagal-Arroyo Presidency,” in Kontra-Gahum: Academics Against Political Killings, edited by R. Tolentino and S. Raymundo. Quezon City, Philippines: IBON Publishing. (2006). "Analyzing Condoms as Global Sexual Commodities." In Handbook of the New Sexualities Studies, edited by Steven Seidman, Nancy Fisher, and Chet Meeks. New York: Routlege. (2006). “Family Planning (Birth Control)” and “Sexuality and Development,” in Encyclopedia of International Development, edited by T. Forsyth. London: Routledge. (2005). "Governing Migrants' Sexual Behavior: Work, HIV/AIDS, and Condom Use Campaigns in Southeast Asia." Pp. 165-84 in Revising Risk: Health Inequality and Shifting Perceptions of Danger and Blame, edited by Barbara Herr Harthorn and Laury Oaks (2003). "Condoms and Pedagogy: Changing Global Knowledge Practices." Pp. 124-8 in Feminist Futures: Reimaging Women, Culture, and Development, edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, and Priya Kurian. London: Zed Press (2003). Resisting Homeland Security: Organzing Against Unjust Removals of U.S. Filipinos, with the Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective. San Jose, CA: Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Collective. (2004). "Orientalism in U.S. Sociology and a Century of Filipino Insurgencies Against U.S. Empire." From the Left 25(1):3-4, 8, a section newsletter of the American Sociological Association. (2004) "Anti-War Statement of Filipino Educators." Pp. 417-9 in Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images, edited by M. Evelina Galang. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. (2003) Comparative Social Research, Vol. 20: The Comparative Study of Conscription In the Armed Forces, edited by Lars Mjøset and Stephen Van Holde. Contemporary Sociology 32(6):749-50 (2003). Governments and Politics In Southeast Asia, edited by John Funston. Progress In Development Studies 3(1):82-3 (2003). Identities In Talk, edited by Charles Antaki and Sue Widdicombe. Contemporary Sociology 30:47-8 (2001). "From Critical Psychology to Critical Development Studies," with Kum-Kum Bhavnani. Critical Psychology 1(1):62-78 (2001). "Condom Advocacy, Its Arguments, Its Organizations, and Its Representations: A Comparative Study of Health Promotion Campaigns in Bangkok, Manila, New Delhi, and San Francisco." UCOP Pacific Rim Research Program Technical Report. Oakland, CA: University of California Office of the President (2001). "Women, Culture, Development: A New Paradigm for Development Studies?," with Kum-Kum Bhavnani and John Foran. Ethnic and Racial Studies 23(5):820-41 (2000). Reprinted in Gender and Development, edited by B. N. Ghosh and Parvesh K. Chopra. Leeds, UK: Wisdom House Publications (2002). Condom Matters and Social Inequalities, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (2001). "Negotiating New Asian-American Masculinities: Attitudes and Gender Expectations," with Diane Fujino. Journal of Men's Studies 7(3):391-413 (1999). Presentations & Others Activities Discussant, Panel on “Mediating Contemporary Filipino American Cultures.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting (2007) Discussant, Panel on “APA Studies, Campus and Community Leadership Development, and Multicultural Coalition Building.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting (2007) Roundtable Co-Organizer, American Sociological Association Section of Political Economy of the World System (2002) Invited Presider, Refereed Roundtable on “Globalization and Work,” Section on Asia and Asian America (2001) Invited Discussant, Panel on “Is the Future of Revolutions Feminist?,” The Future of Revolutions in the Context of Globalization Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (2001) Paper Presentations: “Filipinos Evading States and Empire, Remaking the Politics of Gendered Work and Diaspora,” International Sociological Association XVI World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa. (2006) “Shifting Immigration,” Dean's Honors Symposium, College of Social Sciences, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA. (2005) “The Impacts of Homeland Security Racism on Filipinos,” Critical Filipino Perspectives on Homeland Security Racism Symposium, Universisty of California, Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and the UCB Critical Filipina and Filipino Studies Working Group, Berkeley, CA. (2005) “Sexing Capitalism: Condoms and Industrial Change,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (2004) “Whose Words? Filipino Immigrant Workers Speak on Citizenship, Labor, and Justice,” with Robyn Rodriguez, After 9/11: The New Militarism and the Question of Belonging Symposium, Ethnic Studies Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. (2004) “Globalizing Sexualities, Sexing Global Projects,” Queer Imaginaries Conference, Sex, Race, and Globalization Project (Rockefeller Foundation), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. (2004) “Women, Condoms, and International Development: A Socio-Cultureal Analysis,” Gender and Development Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas, City, MO. (2004) “Doing Gramsci’s Cultural Education: Antiracism and Gendered Sexuality in the NABWMT,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (2003) “A Schizoanalysis of the Basic Problems of the Philippines: The Sociological Imaginations of J. M. Sison, 1970s & 2000s.” Institute of Culture and Society, University of California, Davis, CA. (2003) “Condom Matters and Social Inequalities: Research, Teaching and Future Directions,” Donald Cressey Dissertation Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. (2003) “The Sexualities of Globalization,” Invited Paper, Towards a Critical Globalization Studies Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. (2003) “Demilitarizing the State, Remilitarizing Everyday Lives of Southeast Asian Migrants: Legacies and Trajectories of Security and Governmentality,” with Robyn M. Rodriguez, Annual Conference for the Center For Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA. (2003) “Sexualized Privatization As Economic Development: Women, Transnational Organizations, and Condom Social Marketing In India and the Philippines,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. (2002) “HIV/AIDS and Migrant Sexualities in Southeast Asia: Government Quest For Control and Increase Condom Use,” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2000) “Activities of First World Governments in Philippine Condom Advocacy: Examining the Politics and Practice of Global Health Promotion,” Invited Paper, Emerging Public Health Issues in California’s Pacific Rim Community Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1999) “Condom, Psychology, and the Prevalence of Consumption,” World Millennium Conference In Critical Psychology, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia. (1999) “Occupational Segregation of U.S. Filipinos: The Effects of Gender and Period of Migration,” American Sociological Association Conference, San Francisco, CA (1998) “Condom, Gender, and Cultures in Global and Local Contexts,” Women/Culture/Development Graduate Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (1998) “Coloring Communities: People of Color Redefine Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Terrains,” with Susana Peña and Beth Schneider, Special Session of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (1995) “Bringing Up Gender and Race: Pertinent Questions In Facilitating Education,” Boundaries In Question Conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA (1995) “Asian and Pacific Americans: Stepping Off the Pedestal,” with M. Elliot, National Association of Campus Activities Regional Conference, Austin, TX (1990) Service Activities (Partial List) Community Involvement: Invited Speaker, "Human Rights in the Philippines," International Human Rights Day, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA (2007) Invited Speaker, "Homeland Security Racism and Asian Pacific Islanders," Asian Pacific Islander Month, DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA (2004) National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON-US), Committee Member on Homeland Security and Immigration Rights (2004-Present) Filipino Community Center (FCC), San Francisco, CA, Research Consulant (2006) Filipino Community Support (FOCUS), San José, CA, Board Member (2002-Present) University: University Program Planning Committee (2005-Present) Progressive TeachSJSU Faculty E-Group, Facilitor (2003-Present) Ad Hoc University Teach-In Committee (2002-3) College of Social Sciences: Web Advisory Committee (2003-2004) Curriculum Committee (2002-Present) Outstanding M.A. Thesis Sub-Committee, Research Committee (2002) Department of Sociology: Graduate Theory Committee (2002-Present) Graduation Committee (2002, 2003) Student Advising and Mentorship: Filipino Political Affairs Association, SJSU, Faculty Advisor (2003-2005) McNair Scholars, Faculty Mentor (2002-2004) M.A. Thesis Committees, Member (2002-Present) Drop-in Major Advising (2001-Present) Last Updated: May 06