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Phone: 413.597-2521 Kevin.S.Wong@williams.edu Wednesday 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm K. Scott Wong is the James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs at Williams College, where he teaches a variety of courses in Asian American history, American immigration history, the history of the American West, history and memory, and American Studies. He has written numerous articles in journals and anthologies and is the co-editor, with Sucheng Chan, of Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era (Temple, 1998.) Most recently, he published Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2005.) When not teaching or writing, he likes to fly fish for trout and is still trying to fingerpick like Mississippi John Hurt. Books: Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2005). Received Honorable Mention in the History category from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2006 Co-editor with Sucheng Chan, Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era (Philadelphia: Temple University Press), 1998. Received the History and Social Sciences Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2001. Articles: From Pariah to Paragon: Shifting Images of Chinese Americans during World War II, in Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture, Sucheng Chan and Madeline Y. Hsu, eds. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.) The Eagle Seeks a Helpless Quarry: Chinatown, the Police, and the Press. The 1903 Boston Chinatown Raid Revisited, Amerasia Journal, 22:3 (1996), pp. 81-103. The Transformation of Culture: Three Chinese Views of America, American Quarterly, 48: 2 (June, 1996) pp. 201-232. Reprinted in Lucy Maddox, ed. Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). Liang Qichao and the Chinese of America: A Re-evaluation of his Selected Memoir of Travels in the New World Journal of American Ethnic History , 11:4 (Summer, 1992), pp. 3-24. (Received the Immigration History Societys Carlton Qualey Award) Asian American History, American Immigration History History Akio Adams, "Martial Law and Internment in Hawaii: The Significance of Local Affirmations of Loyalty on the Wartime and Post-war Development of the Japanese Community in the Islands," 2007 Heather R. Barney, Coming Home: The Rise of Gay Conservatism, 2001. Crystal Mun-hye Baik, "Retracing Silenced Memories: Korean 'Comfort Women,' Voice, and Agency," 2002. Catherine A. Williams, "The Politics of 'Rehabilitation': The Native Hawaiian Response to American Imperialism, 1920-1959, 2000. Gillian R. Bazelon, Patterns of Discrimination and Hardship: The Mexican American Farm Worker Experience in Twentieth Century America, 1998. Daisy Y. Ha, "Embittered Immigrant Dreams: Korean Americans and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots," 1996. Stuart McLaughlin, "Searching for Acceptance: The JACL and the Nisei, 1919- 1952," 1994. American Studies Masahiro Fox, "Found in Translation," (Feature-length film,) 2005. Lesley Benware, "Eugenics in the United States: A Movement in Three Bodies," 2005. Carisha Swanson, "White Benefits: The Effects of Whiteness on African American Advancement," 2002. Alison Swain, "Their Own Island: The Japanese American Community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, 1890-1945," 2001. Rebecca Kline, Watching Our Ps and Qs: Class and Race in the Development of American Immigration Policy, 1988-1992, 1993. Asian Studies Tiffany Wan-Chung Chao, "An Investigation of Third Culture Kids from the International School of Beijing as Compared to Students Educated in the United States of America," 2006. Geraldine Yun Shen, "Yu Wei: A Personal Account of Twentieth Century Chinese History," 2001. Art History Rebecca Burditt, "Images From a Forgotten War: Photojournalism, Life, and 'The Little Boy Who Wouldn't Smile,'" 2006. American Studies back to Faculty main page |
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