Marie Lo
Election
Name
Marie Lo
Candidate statement
My name is Marie Lo, and I’m a professor of English at Portland State University. I received my MA and PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley and my BA in English from McGill University. My research interests include comparative Asian American and Asian Canadian cultural production; the intersections of late 19th and early 20th century anti-Asian exclusion laws and US Indian removal policies; and alternative genealogies of race, empire, and craft. My recent publications on these topics can be found in journals such as The Global South, ASAP/Journal, The Journal of Modern Craft, and Critical Ethnic Studies.
Candidate Biography:
I have also begun thinking and writing on Asian American leadership, and I recently co-authored a few pieces on Asian American women leaders in higher education based on my four years of chairing my department. The experience has pressed upon me how important it is to mentor and develop a bench of future administrators and leaders, to create community and capacity for this work, and to also expand ideas of leadership and power beyond the current corporate models in higher education. I have been a member of AAAS since I was a graduate student in the 1990s, and, if elected, I would center mentorship and leadership development of community members at all stages of their careers and help build a collective leadership infrastructure vital to sustaining our teaching and scholarship, creativity, and our commitments to justice.
Candidate Biography:
I have also begun thinking and writing on Asian American leadership, and I recently co-authored a few pieces on Asian American women leaders in higher education based on my four years of chairing my department. The experience has pressed upon me how important it is to mentor and develop a bench of future administrators and leaders, to create community and capacity for this work, and to also expand ideas of leadership and power beyond the current corporate models in higher education. I have been a member of AAAS since I was a graduate student in the 1990s, and, if elected, I would center mentorship and leadership development of community members at all stages of their careers and help build a collective leadership infrastructure vital to sustaining our teaching and scholarship, creativity, and our commitments to justice.