Photo from a visit to Avalanche Lake at Glacier National Park, Montana with the Mansfield Fellows.

TEACHING POSITIONS

  • Adjunct, Dept. of Political Science, Temple University (Spring 2022-24) POLS 4121. Women and Politics

  • University of Bridgeport (Fall 2019), Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science program, School of Public and International Affairs

  • University of Bridgeport (2017-19), Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Public and International Affairs

  • Franklin and Marshall College (2010-17), Assistant Professor of Government

  • Pepperdine University (2006-07, 2009), Adjunct in International Studies & Languages

  • Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (2007-08, 2009), Part-time Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science

  • University of California, Los Angeles (2005), Instructor in Political Science

  • Teaching assistant, UCLA (1999-2005), led the TA Training Workshop for Political Science and was a TA for the Freshman Summer Program, an intensive summer program for students from underrepresented groups.

Fellowships/Awards

  • 2017: Black Student Union Ujima award for leadership/mentorship, Franklin and Marshall College

  • 2012-2014: The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation US-Japan Network for the Future Fellow, Cohort II, 2012-2014

  • 2011: Hackman Fellowship, Franklin &Marshall (Summer research with student)

  • 2008: Sasakawa Foundation Dissertation Grant

  • 2008: Aratani Fieldwork Grant

  • 2006-7: Aratani Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

  • 2007: Social Science Research Council, Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop

  • 2002 and 2003: Departmental Nominee for UCLA Distinguished Teaching Assistant

  • 2000: The Sasakawa Foundation Summer grant for advanced language training at International Christian University in Japan

  • 1999-2002: Title VI, National Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Award for Japanese

Teaching

University of Bridgeport

  • GLDP/GMCS 543, Grad seminar, Media and Development

  • FYS 101, First Year Seminar, Citizenship and Social Justice

  • PSCI 103-11, Introduction to Political Science (online and face-to-face)

  • PSCI 218, Human Security (face-to-face and hybrid)

  • PSCI 207, World Politics

  • PSCI 204, Comparative Politics

  • PSCI 101, American Politics (online)

  • PSCI 398, Senior Thesis

  • PSCI 238, Gender Politics from a Global Perspective

Franklin and Marshall College

  • GOV 120, Comparative Politics

  • GOV 130, International Politics

  • GOV 226, Gender Politics from a Global Perspective

  • GOV 324, East Asian Politics

  • GOV 472, Postwar Japanese Politics

  • IND 490, Independent Study

  • IND 499, Honors Thesis

Loyola Marymount University

  • PS 395, Gender and Politics: A Global Perspective

  • PS 150, Introduction to Comparative Politics

  • PS 395, The Politics of East Asia

  • PS 155, Comparing Foreign Governments

Pepperdine University

  • Asian 301, Survey of East Asia

  • Asian 331, Modern China

University of California, Los Angeles

  • PS 160, Introduction to Japanese Government and Politics

Service

  • Co-editor of a special issue on gender politics in Japan and the US with Melissa Deckman, Mari Miura, and Ki-young Shin for the American Political Science Association and Japan American Women Political Scientists Symposium (2019-to the present)

  • Mentor to minority women in the profession (doctoral students, post-docs, and junior faculty), American Political Science Association (2019-to the present).

University of Bridgeport (2017-19)

  • Chair, Political Science Program (2018-19)

  • Academic Advising for two majors: 1) Political Science and 2) International Political Economy and Diplomacy/Asia)

  • General Education Committee

  • Honors Committee

  • Faculty Advisory Council for the Heckman Center, Bridgeport Plan

  • Faculty Advisor to F.E.M.A.L.E.S. (student leadership organization supporting minority women)

Franklin & Marshall College (2011-17)

  • Organizer of the Minority Faculty and Staff Alliance

  • Provost Committee on Faculty Diversity and Recruitment

  • Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Committee

  • Day of Dialogue Planning Committee

  • President’s First-Generation Allies Group

  • International and Off-Campus Studies Committee

  • Faculty advisor to the Black Student Union for the campus Dream Speaker Common Hour with Dr. Cornel West

  • Student Conduct Committee

  • Public Affairs Lecture Fund Committee

  • East Asian Studies Group, faculty mentor

  • Academic advising for International Studies majors or minors on East Asia

  • Admissions Autumn Open House Academic Panel and Interest Fair

  • Asian American Alliance faculty advisor

  • Government Club Advisor

  • Invited by Carol Cohn to contribute my gender politics syllabus to the Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights resource database

Other Relevant Experiences or Trainings

  • Board Member, Lancaster YWCA (2020-22) and serving on the Nominating Committee of the YWCA board (recruitment and onboarding of new board members)

  • Worked for the former mayor, John Heilman (and his deputy mayor, Fran Solomon), and the City Council of the City of West Hollywood, CA on LGBT rights.

  • Counseling Asst. to Gaby Solomon, Director of Student Affairs at the UCLA International Institute. Advised for BA programs in African, East Asian, International Development, Latin American, Middle Eastern and North African, and Southeast Asian Studies; and the MA program for East Asian Studies. Assisted with degree progress and advising for graduate and fellowship applications, and internships. Also advised social science majors for the College at UCLA.

  • Served as a Teaching Assistant and mentor for a summer program that helps students from underrepresented backgrounds transition into their first year at UCLA. (Freshmen Summer Program, FSP).

  • Lancaster City’s Public Arts Diversity Sub-Committee

  • Former Board Member, World Affairs Council

  • Competencies in course design (Dee Fink’s Significant Learning, March 2020; and Ken Bain’s Best Teachers Institute, Super Courses, Spring 2021 Saturday Seminar) and for online learning.

  • Completed trainings with Temple University’s IDEAL Office, for LGBTQIA Safe Zone I and II, March, 2020; the Racial Equity Institute, January 17-19, 2020; and the Western States Center, Confronting White Nationalism, March 5-7, 2021.