Cecilia Tsu
Cecilia Tsu
Assistant Professor

E: cmtsu@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-754-4836
O: 5205 SSH
Research Interests
Asian American history, race and ethnicity, immigration, California and the American West, gender, agricultural and rural history


Selected Publications

“Sex, Lies, and Agriculture: Reconstructing Japanese Immigrant Gender Relations in Rural California, 1900-1913,” Pacific Historical Review (forthcoming 2009)

"'Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman': Race, Labor, and Family Farming in California's Santa Clara Valley," Western Historical Quarterly XXXVII (Winter 2006)



Courses Taught
Lecture Courses:
Asian American History, 1850-present (under HIS 174D, Selected Themes in American History)
Becoming an American: Immigration and American Culture (HIS 173)
California History (HIS 189)

Undergraduate Seminars:
History of American Orientalism (HIS 102M)
Asian American Lives: History Through Biography (HIS 102M)



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