San Francisco, CA                                                                 Email: lesliew@cal.berkeley.edu

                                                                       

Ph.D.    History, University of California, Berkeley, completed May 2009.

M.A.     Asian Studies, University of California Berkeley, Spring 2001.

B.A.      Mills College, Oakland, CA. Major: Visual Communications; Minor: Asian Studies.

Exam Fields: Southeast Asia; Medieval and Modern Japan; Imperialism/Colonialism; Gender.

Dissertation: A “Foreign” Princess in the Siamese Court: Princess Dara Rasami, the Politics of Gender and Ethnic Difference in Nineteenth-Century Siam

Dissertation Committee: Peter Zinoman (chair), Penny Edwards, Andrew Barshay.

•    Cultural exchange and ethnic identity among upland peoples of mainland Southeast Asia

•    Intersections of gender and class across Asian cultures: How/does gender theory apply?

•    Insider/Outsider figures: How do consorts, migrants and missionaries adapt to new cultures?

•    Asian Modernities: How is Modernity understood and deployed in different cultural contexts?

•    Fulbright IIE Research Fellowship, December 2004 - October 2005: Bangkok, Thailand.

•    Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship: Thai, Academic Year 2000-01

•    Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship: Thai, Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI), University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000.

•    Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, Department of History, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.  $15,000 stipend plus tuition and fees for full-time dissertation work.

•    Traveling Fellowship, Department of History, Summer 2007. Competitive award; $1500 for research-related travel to Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand.

•    Heller Grant, Department of History, Spring 2007. $1500 Award for research-related travel to London, UK.

•    Dean’s Normative Time Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2005-06. $15,000 stipend plus tuition and fees awarded for completion of oral exams within university deadlines.

•    Summer Dissertation Prospectus Fellowship, Department of History, Summer 2003.

•    Research Grant-in-Aid, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Summer 2002. $1500 awarded for preliminary cataloging and digitization of the McFarland Collection, materials collected by an American missionary family in Thailand from 1860-1950.

Lecturer:

•    SEAS R5B: Research Methods. Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley: Spring 2011.

Workshop Leader:

•    Spring 2009 GSI Teaching Conference, U.C. Berkeley: January 2009.

•    Fall 2008 GSI Teaching Conference, U.C. Berkeley: August 2008.

Graduate Student Instructor:

•    Introduction to Islamic Insular Southeast Asia. Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies,  Spring 2004.

•    Introduction to Buddhist Mainland Southeast Asia. Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Fall 2003.

•    Theory and Practice of History. Department of History, Spring 2003.

•    World History. Department of International & Area Studies, Fall 2002.

•    Introduction to Mainland Southeast Asian Cultures. Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, Fall 2000.

•    Introduction to Modern Asian Cultures. Group in Asian Studies, Spring 2000.

• Graduate Library Assistant: South and Southeast Asia Library, U.C. Berkeley, CA. January - June 2001; August 2001 - August 2002. Updated Southeast Asia Bibliographic Reference Project (2001) and compiled Research Guide for library exhibition Chinese in Diaspora (2002).
• Graduate Student Researcher: Welfare Policy Research Project, U.C. Office of the President, Berkeley, CA.  June - August 2001.

•    Thai: Near-fluency in written and spoken language.

•    French, Spanish & Russian: Some reading and speaking ability.

•    American Historical Association

•    Association for Asian Studies: AAS Thai-Lao-Cambodia Studies Group

•    U.C. Berkeley Graduate Southeast Asia Scholars (BerkeleySEA):  Led funding workshops 2001 - 2002. Student Planning Committee for annual Southeast Asia Conference, U.C. Berkeley, 2001 & 2003.

Peter Zinoman, Associate Professor (Advisor & Dissertation Chair)

Department of History

University of California, Berkeley.

(510) 642-2234

Email: pzinoman@berkeley.edu





Penny Edwards, Associate Professor

Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies

University of California, Berkeley.

Phone: (510) 642-1926

Email: pennyedwards@berkeley.edu





Andrew Barshay, Professor

Department of History

University of California, Berkeley

Phone: (510) 642-3121

Email: abars@berkeley.edu