Nancy Wang Yuen is current assistant faculty in the Department of Sociology, and has been there since August 2008.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Biography

Dr. Yuen is interested in "Race and Ethnicity, Media Studies, Asian American Studies, Sociology of Culture, and Qualitative Methodology." Some of her current projects are "The Asian American Vote: How the Media Portrays Race Relations in the 2008 Democratic Primaries," "Post 9/11, but Post-Racial? Television's Lost and Heroes," "Playing 'Ghetto': Embodiments of South Central in Popular Culture," and "Race and Evangelicals: How the Media Distorts American Christianity." http://www.bubbs.biola.edu/~nancy.yuen/index_files/research2.htm

She was first a Teaching Assistant at Santa Monica College in 1999. Then she went to Beverly Hills Prep School where she taught English Literature and Journalism to grades 7-12. In Fall 2004 and Winter 2005, she was a Teaching Fellow in the Interracial Dynamics Cluster in the General Education Cluster Program at UCLA where she taught a seminar on "Racial and Gendered Bodies in Popular Culture" Spring 2005. Then she came to Biola in August 2008.http://www.bubbs.biola.edu/~nancy.yuen/index_files/teaching2.htm

Publications

• Chin, Christina, Meera E. Deo, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen. 2007. "Without a Trace: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime Time Television," Chapter 24 in Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader. Second Edition. Edited by Min Zhou and J. V. Gatewood. New York: New York University Press.
• --2006. “Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Setting the Stage.” Asian American Justice Center, Washington D.C. Available for download at http://www.advancingequality.org/files/aajc_tv_06.pdf
• Deo Meera E., Christina Chin, Jenny J. Lee, Noriko Milman, and Nancy Wang Yuen. 2008. "Missing in Action: ‘Framing’ Race on Prime Time Television." Social Justice 35:2.
• Wang, Nancy. 2000. "Allen Ginsberg." Pp. 239-240 in St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, edited by Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. Detroit: St. James Press.
• Yuen, Nancy Wang. 2004. "Performing Race, Negotiating Identity: Asian American Professional Actors in Hollywood." Pp. 251-267 in Asian American Youth Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity, edited by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou. New York: Routledge.
• --Forthcoming 2009. “The Asian American Vote: How the Media Portrays Race Relations in the 2008 Democratic Primaries.” St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 24, Symposium Issue, entitled Making History: Race, Gender, and the Media in the 2008 Elections.
• Yuen, Nancy Wang, Christina Chin, Meera Deo, Jenny Lee, and Noriko Milman. 2005. "Asian Pacific Americans in Prime Time: Lights, Camera, and Little Action." National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Washington D.C. Available for download at http://www.bubbs.biola.edu/~nancy.yuen/index_files/publications2.htm" class="external-link" rel="nofollow">http://www.advancingequality.org/files/NAPALC_report_final.pdfhttp://www.bubbs.biola.edu/~nancy.yuen/index_files/publications2.htm

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