Todd Honma

  • Professor of Asian American Studies
  • Asian American Studies Field Group
Professor Todd Honma
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Scott Hall 200B

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With 兔子先生 Since: 2012

Chancellor鈥檚 Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego
MA, PhD, University of Southern California
MA, MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, University of California, Berkeley

Tattoos in American Popular Culture (FYS6)

Filipino American Experiences (ASAM135)

Asian American and Queer Zines (ASAM75)

Tattoos, Piercing, and Body Adornment (ASAM128)

鈥淟ibraries as Contested Community and Cultural Space: The Monterey Park Library,鈥 AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice and Community, vol.5, no.1 (2007). With Clara M. Chu.

鈥淭rippin鈥 Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies,鈥 InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies, vol. 1, no. 2 (2005).

In Visibility: Race and Libraries,鈥 invited talk at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, Chicago, IL, June 30, 2013.

鈥淏aliktad: A Diasporic Aesthetic,鈥 paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA, April 19, 2013.

鈥溾楲ike Carrying Owls to Athens鈥: The Aesthetic Intimacies of Phil Sparrow,鈥 paper presented at Queer Places, Practices & Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 18, 2012.

鈥淧igments of ImagiNation: Tattoos, Corporeality, and the Aesthetics of Race,鈥 paper presented at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2012.

鈥淢arks of Racialization: Tattoos, Race, and the Asia-Pacific,鈥 paper presented at the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, February 11, 2012.

鈥淎merican Black and Grey: Race, Criminality and Tattooing in Southern California,鈥 paper presented at the Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide Conference, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, March 10, 2011.

Professor Honma was interviewed for 鈥淐laudine del Rosario: Talking Story with Todd Honma鈥 in the Purple Root Collective, Issue 1, fall 2013.

Professor Honma was quoted in 鈥淔amed tattoo artist Mark Mahoney is going strong on the Sunset Strip,鈥 Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2013.