Khatharya Um

Education

• Chancellor’s Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
• Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., Political Science, University of California, San Diego
• B.A., Political Science, University of California, San Diego

Research interests

• Politics of Memory
• Transnationalism and diaspora
• Colonial and postcolonial studies
• Community Studies and Oral History
• Southeast Asia and Southeast American communities
• Youth and second generation issues
• Human rights, human security and social justice
• Genocide studies
• Wars, empires and refugees
• Education

Select Publications

• Um, K. From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora: NYU Press, 2015.
• Um, K.  “Genocide”, in Key Words in Asian American Studies, edited by Linda Trinh Vo, K. Scott Wong and Cathy Schlund-Vials (under contract with NYU Press)
• Um, K.  “Education in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia: Technology of Dominance, Technology of Liberation” submitted for Equity, Opportunity and Education in postcolonial Southeast Asia, edited by Cynthia Joseph (forthcoming Routledge, Critical Studies in Asian Education Series, 2014)
• Um, K. “Southeast Asian American Health and Mental health”, in Handbook on Asian American Health Edited by Grace Yoo, Mai Nhung Le, Alan Oda, Springer, 2013.
• Um, K.  “Exiled Memory: History, Identity and Remembering in the South East Asian Diaspora” in Southeast Asians in the Diaspora, edited by Mimi Nguyen, Fiona Ngo, and Miriam Lam, Positions, 2012.
• Um, K.  Wisdom For The Ages, Native Hawaiian Education, NEA, 2011
• Um, K. “Cambodia 2010: Trials, Tribulations and Tribunals”, in Southeast Asian Affairs, Spring 2011.

• “Cambodia 2007: A Decade After the Coup,” Southeast Asian Affairs Spring 2008
• “Diasporic Nationalism and Citizenship,” Refuge, 23:2, 2006
• “Political Remittances: Diasporas In Conflict and Post-conflict Situations” in Hazel Smith and Paul Stares (eds), Diasporas in Conflict: Peace-makers or peace wreckers? Washington DC: United Nations University Press, 2006
• “Refractions of Home: Exile, Memory and Diasporic Longing” in Leakthina Tollier and Timothy Winter Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change (Routledge, 2006)
• “The ‘Vietnam War’: What’s In a Name.” Amerasia, 31:2, 2005, Museum of California, 2005
• “Locating the ‘Vietnam War’: A Critical Re-Examination of US History,” online curriculum, Museum of California, 2005

Honors and Awards

• Chancellor’s Public Scholar
• Special Congressional Recognition- Hon. Anna Eshoo
• Special Congressional Recognition -Hon. Barbara Lee

Courses

• AAADS 20A: Introduction to Asian American histories and communities
• AAADS 125: Southeast Asian American communities, issues, and politics
• AAADS 126: Southeast Asian American Migration: US Refugee Policies and Politics of Resettlement
• AAADS 130: US-Asia
• AAADS 190: Southeast Asian Diaspora: History in Contexts
• H195: Honors Seminar
• ES 202: Critical Concepts, Issues and Approaches in Social Sciences
• ES 250: Bodies in Motion: Issues and Approaches in Diaspora Studies