American historian
Amy Sueyoshi is the provost ofSan Francisco State University.[1] Sueyoshi is a trained historian specializing insexuality,gender, andrace. Her publications and lectures focus on issues regarding race and sexuality such ascross-dressing,pornography, andmarriage equality.
Sueyoshi began teaching at SFSU in 2002 as an assistant professor in Race and Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies. She has a B.A. fromBarnard College and a Ph.D. fromUCLA.[2] She is the author of a book onYone Noguchi,Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi(2012), and has written a second book manuscriptSex Acts: Race, Leisure, and Power in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco, under review at University of Colorado Press. In addition to her academic and scholarly work, Sueyoshi is an activist and leader in the LGBTQIA community in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally.[3]
Sueyoshi served as dean of SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies, the first college in the nation to house the five departments of Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Race and Resistance Studies.[4][5] She was named provost of SFSU in April 2022, the first person of color to serve as provost.[6][7]
Selected community work
[edit]Sueyoshi has worked on a variety of community projects.[8]
GLBT Historical Society and GLBT History Museum
[edit]- Founding co-curator of GLBT History Museum, 2008–present.
- Board of directors co-chair, 2009–2012.
- Board of directors, 2007–2013.
- Program Committee co-chair, 2009–2010.
(Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community)
[edit]- Dragon Fruit Historical Preservation Project Founder and Director, 2011–2012.
- Scholarship Program Founder and Committee Chair, 2007–2014.
Videos promoting APIQWTC
[edit]- Dragon Fruit Oral History Project Founder and Adviser, 2012–present.
Sueyoshi's awards and grants 1996–present.[9]
- Houston Distinguished Visiting Professor, 2014.
- Willie Walker Award for Community Service, GLBT Historical Society, 2013.
- Peg Brand Distinguished Lecturer, Indiana University, 2013.
- Red Envelope Giving Circle Grant, 2012.
- SFSU Community University Empowerment Grant, 2011.
- UCLA Institute of American Cultures Postdoctoral fellow, 2007–2008.
- Huntington Library Mayers fellow, 2006–2007.
- Social Science Research Council JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2005.
- San Francisco State University Mini-Grant, 2003–2004.
- Visiting Scholar, Research Center for Human Rights, Osaka City University, July 2003.
- Japan Foundation Language Program for Researchers, Six-month course, 2003.
- San Francisco State University Summer Stipend, 2003.
- Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2001–2002.
- Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, 1999–2000, 2001–2002.
- George and Sakaye Aratani Graduate Fellowship, 1999, 2001.
- California Japanese American Alumni Association Scholarship, 2000.
- UCLA Summer R.A./Mentorship Program, 1998.
- Project 88, University fellowship with stipend and tuition remission, 1996–2000.
Sueyoshi's Publications 1993–present.[10]
- Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi(Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012)
- Introduction reprinted inJournal of Transnational American Studies4, no. 1 (2012) available at:http://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas.
Articles, essays, and edited collections
[edit]- "What Western History Means to Me,"Western Historical Association Newsletter: Special Issue – Queer History in the West(Spring 2013): 25-28.
- "Making Whites from the Dark Side: Teaching Whiteness Studies at San Francisco State University,"The History Teacher 46, no. 3 (May 2013): 373-396.
- "Miss Morning Glory: Orientalism and Misogyny in the Queer Writings of Yone Noguchi,"Amerasia Journal – Special Issue: Further Desire37, no. 2 (2011): 2-27.
- "Intimate Inequalities: Interracial Affection and Same-sex Love in the 'Heterosexual' life of Yone Noguchi, 1897–1909,"Journal of American Ethnic History29, no. 4 (Summer 2010): 22-44.
- "Finding Fellatio: Friendship, History and Yone Noguchi," inEmbodying Asian American Sexualities, Gina Masequesmay and Sean Metzger, ed., (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2009): 157-172.
- "InnovAsian in Pornography: Asian American Masculinity and the Porno Revolution," in21st Century Sexualities: Contemporary Issues in Health, Education and Rights, ed. Gilbert Herdt and Cymene Howe (New York: Routledge, 2007), 78-80.
- Guest Editor,Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate32, no.1 (2006).
- "Friday the Thirteenth – Love, Commitment, and then Catastrophe: Personal Reflections on the Marriage Equality Movement,"Amerasia Journal- Special Issue: Asian Americans and the Marriage Equality Debate32, no.1 (2006): xi-xvii.
- "Mindful Masquerades: Que(e)rying Japanese Immigrant Dress in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco,"Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26, no. 3 (2005): 67-100.
- To be reprinted inContingent Maps: Rethinking the North American West and Western Women's History(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014), in press.
- "Sexuality and Asian Pacific Islander History," Asian Pacific American Collective History Project, 2004 [online]; available fromhttps://web.archive.org/web/20101229003528/http://apachp.net/; Internet.
- Review ofStranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and Law in the North American Westby Nayan Shah,Pacific Historical Review82, no. 2 (May 2013): 297-298.
- Review ofDoctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime CelebritybyJudy Tzu-Chun Wu,Journal of American Ethnic History(Fall 2005): 113-115.
- Review ofThe Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angelesby Eric C. Wat,Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 3 (July 2003): 504-506.
- Review ofIf They Don't Bring Their Women Here: Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusionby George Anthony Peffer,Law and History Review 20, no.2 (Summer 2002): 421-423.
- Review ofAsian American Sexualities edited by Russell Leong andQ& A: Queer in Asian America edited by David Eng andAlice Y. Hom inAmerasia Journal 25, no.1 (1999): 194-200.
"The Same-sex Wedding Album, Amy & Sheree,"American Sexuality Magazine2, no.3, March 2004 [journal on-line]; available fromhttp://nsrc.sfsu.edu/HTMLArticle.cfm?Article=271&PageID=75&SID=FBE8414B3...Internet[permanent dead link].
