{"id":10103,"date":"2024-03-01T08:45:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T13:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:47:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T22:47:56","slug":"march-2024-dr-jilene-chua-cas-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2024\/03\/01\/march-2024-dr-jilene-chua-cas-history\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2024: Dr. Jilene Chua (CAS History)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dr. Jilene A. C. Chua<\/span><\/a> is a cultural historian of Asian\/American history. Dr. Chua received her BA in Biology\/Africana Studies from the <\/span>University of Washington (Seattle)<\/span><\/a> in 2014. After receiving her masters in History & Literature from Columbia University in 2015, she completed her second masters in History at <\/span>l’Universit\u00e9 Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne<\/span><\/a> in 2016. Most recently, she completed a PhD in History at <\/span>Johns Hopkins University<\/span><\/a> in 2023. She was born in Manila (the capital city of the Philippines) and mostly grew up in Richland, Washington. Her research on twentieth-century Philippines intersects the US empire, Chinese migration, Southeast Asia, and comparative racialization. Her current project uses legal sources, oral histories, and community archives to access stories of Chinese migrants living under US colonial rule in the Philippines. This research has benefitted from her background as a Philippine Hokkien speaker; time she spent re-learning Tagalog at the <\/span>University of Wisconsin-Madison\u2019s Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI)<\/span><\/a>; and from being a Visiting Researcher at the <\/span>Center for Southeast Asian Studies in Kyoto University<\/span><\/a> (Japan) and at the <\/span>Ateneo de Manila University <\/span><\/a>(Philippines). Her project has received support from the <\/span>Fulbright Program<\/span><\/a>, the <\/span>American Society for Legal History<\/span><\/a>, the <\/span>Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations<\/span><\/a>, among others. She teaches courses related to Asian\/American history, US empire, the Philippines, and comparative racial regimes. Learn more about <\/span>Professor Chua<\/span><\/a> in her full interview below.<\/span><\/p>\n

What made you decide to be a social scientist\/ why does social science matter to you?<\/b><\/p>\n

Growing up, my nickname was <\/span>tsismosa<\/span><\/i>, because I wanted to know everything about everyone. When my family and I migrated to the US, my mother was often on the phone with people back in the Philippines. She would shoo me away, but I still managed to eavesdrop. All those hours of listening shaped me into someone who loves learning about people\u2019s experiences, thoughts, and feelings about their daily lives. As a professional historian, I see this passion as part of a larger political project that is committed to uncovering the material interests of groups in a society through the lens of race, law, and colonialism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Can you tell us about a recent research project that you\u2019re excited about?<\/b><\/p>\n

My research examines how US laws\u2014such as the Fourteenth Amendment and Chinese exclusion\u2014were used in the Philippines when these islands were a formal US colony (1898-1946). I focus on how Chinese residents and their descendants in the Philippines encountered, evaded, or sometimes even manipulated those laws, and what this revealed about the material interests of people in power.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the best piece of professional advice you ever received?<\/b><\/p>\n

A great teacher and mentor always asked me, \u201cWhat is your theory of social change?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What is your favorite course you\u2019ve taught at BU?<\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve only taught two courses so far, so I think it is too early to say!<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell us a surprising fact about yourself.<\/b><\/p>\n

When I was an undergraduate, I knew conversational Swahili. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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