PhD, Geography, Rutgers University;
MA, Geography, Rutgers University;
BA, Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

I am interested in encouraging thoughtful engagement with ideas and practices of social transformation at various scales, in particular, its spatiality, contextual contingency, contradictions, and enduring possibility.

• The Migrant City: Immigration, Migration, & Displacement
• Gender, Difference, & the City
• Social Justice & the City
• Community Organizing: Methodologies of Research & Activism
• Space, Place, Gender & Identity

• “Blank Slates and Disaster Zones: The State, September 11, and the Displacement of Chinatown.” In Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State. Ed. Michael Sorkin. New York: Routledge (2007)
• “Counterhegemony and Context: Racial Crisis, Warfare and Real Estate in the Neoliberal City,” Urban Geography, Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 714-721 (2006).
• “ ‘Hen’s Teeth’ in Geography: Women of Color and Inter-disciplinary Strategies for Navigating the Discipline,” Gender, Place and Culture Vol. 13 No. 1. 2006
• “The Place of Immigration in Studies of Geography and Race,” Social and Cultural Geography Vol. 1 No. 2. 2000

Mon. and Weds. 2-3p and by appointment

Urban, political, and feminist geography; Gender and ethnic studies; Community and class organizing; Migration and work; Race and space; Chinatowns

• Association of American Geographers
• Urban Affairs Association
• American Studies Association
• Association for Asian American Studies

• 1998-1999, Fellowship, Society of Women Geographers, New York Group.
• 1998-1999, Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University.