Dr. Vivian Yan-Gonzalez
Assistant Professor
Wilkinson College Other Programs, Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Email: yangonzalez@chapman.edu
Website: https://yangonzalez.youcanbook.me/
- Scholarly Works:
- 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:
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
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications