Dr. Vivian Yan-Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Office Location:
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Email: yangonzalez@chapman.edu
- Scholarly Works:
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Digital Commons
- Education:
- University of Southern California, Bachelor of Arts
Stanford University, Master of Arts
Stanford University, Ph.D.
Biography
Vivian Yan-Gonzalez is a historian of race and politics in the 20th century United States. Her current book project is the first history of the meanings, boundaries, and strategies of Asian American electoral politics, with a particular focus on Chinese and Japanese American Republicans and conservatism. She is also working on a digital humanities project to gather, map, and analyze historical Asian American voter data. Other research interests include social movements, US in the world, US empire, transpacific history, diaspora, migration, travel, and memory. An Orange County native, Professor Yan-Gonzalez was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before joining Chapman University.
Recent works:
- “The Asian American presidential nominee who blazed a path for Nikki Haley,”Washington Post, February 8, 2023
- “Model Minority or Myth? Reexamining the Politics of S.I. Hayakawa,” Amerasia Journal 48, no. 1 (2022), 24-43