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Ana Candela

Ana Candela   
Ana Candela
    Type:  Graduate Student
    Concentration:  Asia and the Islamic World
    Email:  acandela@ucsc.edu

Research Focus 
Modern East Asia, Modern Latin America, World History, Pacific Formation, Chinese Migrations, Nationalism

Teaching Areas:
Modern East Asia, Modern Latin America, World History, Chinese Overseas

Dissertation Title:
“Nations and Migrations in the Pacific: Peruvian Chinese Contributions to Nationalism and Nation-Building in China and Peru

Long Description 
Fellowships and Grants:
• 2008-2009: Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship
• 2006-2008: Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 2005: Gary E. Smith Summer Grant, Graduate School, University of Oregon, OR
• 2005: Freeman Small Professional Development Grant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon, OR
• 2004: Freeman Student Fellowship for Personalized Learning in Asia - Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
• 2003 – 2006: Graduate Teaching Fellowship, History, University of Oregon, OR

Selected Publications 
“Shupin lunwen: meiguo zhongguo yanjiu zhong de bianjiang” (“Frontiers of Chinese Studies: A Review Essay”), in Guoxue yanjiu (Studies in Sinology), Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe. (forthcoming 2008)

“The Yangzi Meets the Amazon: Placing Peruvian Chinese Nationalism in the 1930s,” in Yi jiu san ling nian dai de Zhongguo [China in the 1930s], Volume 1, (China: Social Sciences Academic Press, 2006): 864-884.

Papers/Presentations:
February 2007 – Paper “Performing Citizenship: Overseas Laborers and Qing Nation Building” Asia-America-Pacific Research Cluster Graduate Student Conference – Santa Cruz, CA

January 2007 – Paper: “Performing Citizenship: Overseas Laborers and Qing Nation Building” American Historical Association Annual Conference – Atlanta, GA

June 2006 - Paper: “Un/disciplining Subjects: Writing the Legal History of Peruvian Chinese” Annual Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Conference – Washington State University

August 2005 – Paper: “The Yangzi Meets the Amazon: A Translocal Historical Perspective on Peruvian Chinese Nationalism in the 1930s” – “Republican China in the 1930s” conference hosted by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

June 2005 – Presentation: “What/Where/When is China?: Parameters of Chinese History in the Contemporary Age” – Pacific Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz

March 2003 – Paper: “Indigenizing Identity: Appropriating and Negotiating Aboriginal Culture into Taiwan’s National Identity” – University of North Carolina Graduate History Forum