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What does migration look like?
Sign advertising mobile phones in German and Turkish in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Many of you may know about migrantography, my Tumblr for photographs of migrant life. The blog started with pictures that I...
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Fellowship application tips for prospective and early stage graduate students
For the past few years I have been working as a graduate student mentor for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program at UCLA. My main job there is to guide the fellows through the process of...
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Fellowship application tips, part II: writing the essay
Two weeks ago I wrote a post with a number of tips for early stage US graduate students applying to fellowships. I realized after I pressed “publish” that I didn’t address what the essays themselves...
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Quarterly update, hippo edition
Photo: RayMorris1. Flickr/Creative Commons. Language Wars An op-ed I wrote about China, Taiwan, and the politics of Chinese language learning has been published on Hippo Reads, a new media site that...
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Teaching future minority PhDs about the academic career path
In an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dian Squire laments that many racial (and gender) minority graduate students in the US are ill-prepared for careers as tenure-track faculty. This...
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Webinar: What is graduate school?
I gave a webinar today about humanities and social science masters and PhD programs in the US, as part of a series sponsored by the Mellon Mays Fellows Professional Network. I covered the differences...
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Sociological Images course guide: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
I have compiled and organized a course guide about Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders for the public sociology blog Sociological Images. The guide contains links to Sociological Images...
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