12. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - Relationship is everything
In this episode, we dive into commonalities between social science research and evaluation and we learn how four researchers from the University of California in San Diego bridge the gap towards the communities they work with, in times of social distancing. In particular, we learn about non-extractive interviewing and how relationship is everything in a healthy qualitative research practice.
The four researchers are Prof. Dr Yến Lê Espiritu, Prof. Dr Simeon Man, Adriana Echeverria and Youngoh Jung.
Yến Lê Espiritu is a distinguished professor and former chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has published widely on Asian American panethnicity, gender and migration, and U.S. colonialism and wars in Asia and she is a Founding Member of the Critical Refugee Studies Collective.
Simeon Man is an associate professor of history at the same university. His research and teaching focus on race and US imperialism in the twentieth century. He is the author of the book, "Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific," which is a cultural history of the U.S. military in Asia and the Pacific during the Vietnam War era.
Adriana Echeverria is a 1st year PhD student in the Department of Ethnic Studies. Her research focuses on the forced migration of Central American and Caribbean migrants on the Tijuana/San Diego borderlands. She is a Teaching Assistant for the Race and Oral History course.
Youngoh Jung is a 5th year PhD student in the History Department and the Critical Gender Studies Graduate Specialization Program. He specializes in Asian American history with a focus on transpacific militarism and the community formations of the Korean diaspora and is also a Teaching Assistant for the Race and Oral History course.
By EC DEVCO / Evaluation Support Service (ESS) · University of California - Relationship is Everything