Douglas S. Ishii
Election
Position
Name
Douglas S. Ishii
Candidate statement
Douglas S. Ishii received his PhD from the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2014. He has since been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland; an inaugural Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. As such, his contingent faculty career has taken him to three different institutions in three very different places in a short period of time.
Ishii has attended AAAS every year since New Orleans, and has been active in the East of California Section and the Queer Section – even when he was not sure if he would have a job the following year. He has been working on his first book, “Something Real: Asian American Arts Activism and the Racialization of Sophistication,” which examines panethnic and politicized media arts since the Asian American Movement through the intersection of race, sexuality, and cultural capital. His goals as Contingent Faculty Representative emerge from this critique, as he will provide a voice for non-permanent faculty amidst the adjunctification of the university generally and ethnic studies specifically, and campaign for organizational support measures for the growing number of AAAS contingent faculty.
Ishii has attended AAAS every year since New Orleans, and has been active in the East of California Section and the Queer Section – even when he was not sure if he would have a job the following year. He has been working on his first book, “Something Real: Asian American Arts Activism and the Racialization of Sophistication,” which examines panethnic and politicized media arts since the Asian American Movement through the intersection of race, sexuality, and cultural capital. His goals as Contingent Faculty Representative emerge from this critique, as he will provide a voice for non-permanent faculty amidst the adjunctification of the university generally and ethnic studies specifically, and campaign for organizational support measures for the growing number of AAAS contingent faculty.