KALE BANTIGUE FAJARDO
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Department of American Studies &
Asian American Studies Program
104 Scott Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455
APPOINTMENTS
• Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies and Asian American Studies Program,
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, August 2005-present.
• Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Anthropology, 2004-2005.
• Lecturer, California State University, Monterey Bay, Freshmen Seminar Program, 2004-2005.
• Lecturer, Vista Community College (Berkeley, CA), Social Sciences Department, 1998-1999 and 2004-2005.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2004.
Dissertation: “Filipino Cross Currents: Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization”
Dissertation Committee: Nancy Chen (committee chair, anthropology), Neferti X. Tadiar (History of Consciousness), and Olga Najera- Ramirez (anthropology).
• M.A., Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1996.
• B.S. Human Development Studies, concentration - Women’s Studies, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, 1990.
• Philippine Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, Trinity College, Quezon City, Philippines, 1987-1988.
OTHER EDUCATION
• Beginning Bahasa Indonesia (intensive language study), Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, summer 1996.
PUBLICATIONS
IN PROGRESS - ACADEMIC
• Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization
(book project).
PUBLISHED- ACADEMIC
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” GLQ, 14:2/3, April 2008 (refereed article, in press).
• “Working Class Filipino Masculinities,” book review of Creating Masculinity in Los Angeles’s Little Manila; Working Class Filipinos and Popular Culture, 1920s-1950s by Linda España-Maram, American Quarterly, June 2007 (invited review).
PUBLICATIONS (continued)
PUBLISHED- ACADEMIC (continued)
• “Dispatch from the Ocean” Anthropology News, November 2006, 63, (invited essay).
• “Of Galleons and Globalization” in Mains’l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History, 38: 1 & 2 (winter & spring 2002), p. 61-65, (refereed article).
COMMUNITY-BASED PRINT MEDIA
• “The Scholar: Gayatri Gopinath” Trikone Magazine, March 2005, 20:1, 8, (invited profile).
• “Cool POMO Performance,” Philippine News, April 21-27, 2004, B4 (dance review).
• “Outstanding Blend of the Old and New,” Philippine News, August 1992, (dance review).
• “Jeff Tagami - Portraying Fil-Ams in Verses of Struggles,” Philippine News, September 16-22, 1992, (article).
• “Manny Reyes - Occasional Visual Artist,” Philippine News, October 1992, (article).
• “Trinity Ordoña - For the Love of Women,” Philippine News, November 1992, (article).
POETRY
• “Salamat Lolo” in Alay VII, Journal of Literature and Art by Filipino Americans, Santa Cruz: Filipino Students Association, 1997.
• “Visions of a Monkey in the Year of the Monkey” in Twanas, spring 1992, p. 23.
• “Island Dream” in Sinister Wisdom, #47, fall 1992. (Reprinted in Lim-Hing, Sharon, 1994; Newman, Leslea, 1996; and Cross, Clare, 1996.)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Globalization and Filipino/a diaspora studiesContemporary global shipping industry
Oceanic theories and literatures
Port spaces, port cultures
Pacific world studies
Philippine/Filipino/a American maritime history
Southeast Asian maritime history
Philippine/Filipino/a American postcolonialism / Asian im/migration to the Americas & Caribbean
Feminist/gender/queer/masculinity studies
Manila/Manila Bay, Oakland/San Francisco Bay
Great Lakes and Mississippi River
Local/global water crises
Environmental racism, environmental justice
Anthropology of sports
– boxing, sailing, and cockfighting
PRESENTATIONS
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, February 5, 2008, (invited presentation).
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” part of the “New Directions in Queer Studies” panel organized by Jack Halberstam, Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, UCLA, October 19, 2007, (invited presentation).
PRESENTATIONS (continued)
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, October 13 2007, (refereed presentation).
• “Lake Street, Frogtown, and the U.S.A: Wing Young Huie and a Photography of Race, Class,
Place, and Movement,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, NY, NY,
April 6, 2007 (refereed presentation).
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Department, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, April 16, 2007 (invited presentation).
• “Transportation: Translating Filipino/Filipino American Tomboy Masculinities Through Seafaring and Migration,” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, March 2007, (invited presentation).
• “Monsoon Sailor,” Department of English, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, February 23, 2007, (invited presentation).
• “Asian American Immigration and Transnationalism,” Macalester College, Asian American Studies panel, April 3, 2006, (invited presentation).
• “Filipino Crosscurrents: Masculinities in Motion – Seafaring and the Sea,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, December 4, 2005,
(refereed presentation).
• “Filipino Crosscurrents: Histories of Filipino Seafaring in Asia and the Americas,” Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, February 14, 2005, (invited presentation).
• “Human Rights Activism by Sexual Minorities in the Global South,” Out-Giving Conference sponsored by the Gill Foundation, Atlanta, GA, fall 2003, (refereed presentation).
• “Possibilities and Challenges of Using an International Human Rights Framework for International LGBT Communities and other Sexual Minorities.” Co-presented with Dr. Gayatri Gopinath, University of California, Davis Queer Pride Month, fall 2002,
(invited presentation).
• “International LGBT and Prison Justice Activism,” Creating Change Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2002, (refereed presentation).
TEACHING
GRADUATE LEVEL – UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (UMN)
• Theoretical Foundations and Current Practice in American Studies (8 students), American Studies,
spring 2007.
• Oceanic Theories and Literatures (6 students), American Studies, spring 2006.
GRADUATE LEVEL/DIRECTED STUDIES – UMN
• Directed Studies: Focus: Oceanic, Space, Place, and Movement, with Doug Jenson, American Studies Ph.D. student, American Studies, spring 2008.
• Directed Studies: Focus: Air transportation and globalization, with Ryan Murphy, American Studies Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, spring 2007.
TEACHING (continued)
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL – UMN
• Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America: Focus: Asian/Asian American Space, Place, and Movement, (27 students), Asian American Studies/American Studies, spring 2008.
• Comparative Genders and Sexualities: Sissies, Sex workers, and Seamen (25 students), American
Studies, fall 2007.
• Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America: Focus: Asian/Asian American Space, Place, and Movement, (22 students), Asian American Studies/American Studies, spring 2007.
• America’s Diverse Cultures: Natives, Migrants and the Making of Minnesota (85 students),
American Studies, fall 2006.
• Imagining Asian America (35 students), Asian American Studies, fall 2006.
• Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America: Focus: Asian/Asian American Space, Place, and Movement, (15 students), Asian American Studies/American Studies, fall 2005.
• Comparative Genders and Sexualities (35 students), American Studies, fall 2005.
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL – UC, SANTA CRUZ
• Anthropology of Globalization (75 students), Anthropology, spring 2005.
• Filipino American History and Cultures (30 students), American Studies, winter, 2000 and
2002.
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (20 students), Anthropology; Women and Poverty
(10 students), Feminist Studies, summer, 1999 and 1998.
• Core Course (30 students), Oakes College and College Eight, fall, 1995 and 1992.
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL – CSU, MONTEREY BAY
• Freshmen Seminar (30 students), California State University, Monterey Bay, spring 2005.
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL – VISTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (Berkeley, CA)
• Introduction to Asian American Studies (10 students), Social Sciences Department, spring 2005.
• Asian American History, 1945-Present (25 students); Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
(30 students), Social Sciences Department, 1998-1999.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS – UC, SANTA CRUZ
• Teaching Assistant, Cultural Anthropology, American Studies, Women's Studies, and History Departments, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991- 1997:
• Introduction to Cultural Anthropology – with Anna Tsing
• Ethnographic Films – with Nancy N. Chen
• Introduction to Feminisms – with Bettina Aptheker
• Women of Color in the U.S. – with Shirley Flores Muñoz (1 quarter) and Catriona Reed (1 quarter)
• Asian American Experience – with Gin Pang
• Asian American Film and Video – with Glen Mimura
• Asian American History (1945-Present) – with Alice Yang-Murray
• Native American Cultures – with S. G. Parker
NON-UNIVERSITY TEACHING
• Educator, National Maritime Museum Association, San Francisco, CA, January - June 2000.
SERVICE
CAMPUS-WIDE –UMN
• Faculty of Color Initiative (FOCI) Member, 2005-Present.
• Schochet Advisory Board, GLBT Programs Office, invited by Anne Phibbs, Director of GLBT Programs, 2007-present.
• Global Sexualities (spring 2008) Conference Planning Committee, Institute for Advanced Studies, 2007-present, invited by Kevin Murphy, Global Sexualities Research Collaborative Coordinator, 2007-present.
• “Body and Knowing” Symposium (spring 2008) Planning Committee, Institute for Advanced
Studies, invited by Tom Fisher, Dean of College of Architecture and Ann Waltner, Director of IAS, 2007-present.
DEPARTMENT OF AMERICAN STUDIES – UMN
• Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2006-present.
• Awards Committee, 2006-present.
• American Studies Website Committee, 2007-present.
• Mas Color (American Studies Graduate Students of Color group) Advisor, 2006-2007.
• Graduate Studies Committee, 2005-2006.
• Curriculum Development Committee, 2005-2006.
• Respondent to Kandice Chuh’s paper, "Elastic, Plastic, Fantastic: Karen Tei Yamashita's Paradigm Busting Extraordinary Fictions,” American Studies in the 21st Century Colloquium Series, October 2005.
ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM (AAS) – UMN
• Awards Committee, 2007 - present.
• “Diaspora Dance” Search Committee Member, Theatre and Dance Department, invited by
Ananya Chatterjea, Search Committee chair, spring 2007.
• Host, Arlene Bag-ao, visiting human rights attorney from Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines/ Hubert Humphrey School of Public Policy Human Rights Fellow, invited by Kathleen Fennelly, Hubert Humphrey School of Policy, fall 2006.
• Public lectures organizer, public lectures by Gail Dubrow and Wing Young Huie on Asian American space, place, and movement, October 2005.
• Post-film discussion facilitator, “Coming Out, Coming Home: Asian and Pacific Islander Family Stories (film),” Event co-sponsored by AAS, Chicano Studies, La Raza Student Cultural Center, the American Students Association, and the GLBT Center.
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER, WOMEN’S AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (GWSS) – UMN
• GLBT Minor Advisory Committee, invited by Amy Kaminsky, Chair, GWSS, 2006-present.
SERVICE (continued)
DEPARTMENT OF GENDER, WOMEN’S AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (GWSS) – UMN (continued)
• Respondent for “Transnational Feminist Praxis Conference, University of Minnesota, September 15, 2006, invited by Richa Nagar, GWSS.
• Faculty of Color Initiative Recruitment Committee, hosted events for GWSS assistant professor candidates (black feminist theory/diaspora position), spring 2006.
• Host, Susan Stryker, visiting independent scholar and filmmaker of Transgender and Queer Studies, October 2005.
DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY – UMN
• Panel Member, pedagogy workshop for anthropology graduate students, October 8, 2007, invited by Karen Ho, anthropology.
ADVISING –UMN
• Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Jeannie Shinozuka, Ph.D. Candidate, History, 2005-present.
• Preliminary Oral Exam Committee, Ryan Murphy, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, September 2007.
• Preliminary Oral Exam Committee, Marion R.T. Werner, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography Department, September 2007.
• Temporary Advisor, Doug Jenson, Ph.D. student, American Studies, 2006-Present.
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
• President’s Faculty Multicultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, ($8,600) for “Islands, Cities, and Salas: Trans-local Queer Filipino Imaginaries, Cultural Productions, and Activism” book/video project.)
• Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for “Islands, Cities, and Salas: Trans-local Queer Filipino Imaginaries, Cultural Productions, and Activism” book/video project, residency scheduled for spring 2009, grant awarded February 2008.
• Asian American Studies Faculty Development Grant ($2,500) for follow-up research related to Filipino Crosscurrents book project, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, summer 2006.
• Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Research Fellowship, Manila, Philippines, 1997-1998.
• Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (for Bahasa Indonesia), Southeast Asian Studies
Summer Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, summer 1996.
• Eugene Cota-Robles Graduate Studies Fellowship, UC, Santa Cruz, 1994-1995.
SOCIAL JUSTICE/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Grants Writer, Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center, www.apiwellness.org, San Francisco,
CA, 2003-2004.
SOCIAL JUSTICE/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
• Development Director, International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission,
www.iglhrc.org, San Francisco, CA, 2002-2003.
• Grants Manager and Philippines Specialist, Global Exchange, www.globalexchange.org, San
Francisco, CA, 2000-2002.
COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH and VISUAL MEDIA
• Researcher and Curator, capital campaign photography exhibit, Center for Third World Organizing
(CTWO) Oakland, CA, summer 1998.
• Researcher and Co-Director, In the House: The Emergence of Multicultural Theme Housing at
Oakes College (low-budget documentary video), UC, Santa Cruz, summer, 1995.
• Film Festival Co-Coordinator, Out of Bounds: Fourth Annual Women of Color Film Festival,
UC, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 1994-1995.
• Senior Researcher, Inner Ear Film Company, Los Angeles, CA and Cagayan de Oro City,
Philippines, winter 1993.
COMMUNITY SERVICE (SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA)
• Fundraising Coordinator and Stage Manager for “Halo-Halo Review” by The Kreatibo (Queer
Filipino Creative Collective), Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco, CA, winter 2002.
• Volunteer Cook, Filipinos for Affirmative Action fundraising event, Oakland, CA, May 2002.
• Volunteer Speaker, Communities United Against Violence, San Francisco, CA, spring 2000.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Pilipino/Tagalog – speaking level: advanced; listening comprehension level: advanced; reading
level: beginning; writing level: limited.
• English – fluent.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Association of Asian American Studies
• American Studies Association
• American Anthropological Association
• Asian Studies Association
• Society for Applied Anthropology
• Global Sexualities Research Collaborative, University of Minnesota
• Faculty of Color Initiative, University of Minnesota
Letters of recommendation are available upon request.
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