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Educational Policy Studies
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Research Biography


My research focuses on the following topics:

- Education of Seattle's Japanese American students on the eve of their incarceration in 1942.
- Americanization and Citizenship education in the Seattle Schools, 1916-1942.
- Investigating the histories of Asian American education.
- Intercultural Education in the Classroom, 1930s-1950s.
- History of teaching methods and classroom culture.
- Democratic Citizenship Education, Americanization, and acculturation of ethnic minorities and immigrant groups in the U.S.
- Comparative approaches to democratic and tolerance education during the Progressive Era.
- History of U.S. education in the early twentieth century.
- Asian American Education.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Washington, 1999
  • M.Ed., Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Washington, 1994
  • B.A., History, University of Washington, 1992

Key Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--
  • Associate Professor and Core Faculty, Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005--
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999--

Activities & Honors

  • Manuscript Reviewer, Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008- present
  • Oral History Workshop Presenter, Hull Center for the Humanities, Oral History Workshop, University of Kansas, 2008
  • Manuscript Reviewer, Teachers College Press, 2007- present
  • Co-Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 2006- present
  • Committee Member, Diversity Committee Member, History of Education Society, 2006- present
  • Book Review Editor, Book Review Editor, History of Education Quarterly, 2006- present
  • Invited Speaker, College of Education Mentoring Network, University of Washington, 2006
  • Diversity Committee Member, History of Education Society, 2005- present
  • Faculty Mentor, Summer Research Opportunities Program, 2005
  • Board Member, Committee on Multicultural Education, Committee on Multicultural Education, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2004-2006
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
  • Provider, Asian Pacific American Mentoring Program, Office of the Dean of Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000- present
  • Review Board, Educational Theory, 2000-2005
  • Member, Asian Pacific American Resource Committee Office of the Dean of Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2001
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000

Selected Publications

  • Pak, Yoon K., "We are Already Multicultural: Why Policy and Leadership Matter," in Reva Joshee and Lauri Johnson, Eds., Multicultural Education Policy in Canada and the United States: Symbol and Substance (Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, 2007), pp. 42-48.
  • Ng, Jennifer C., Lee, Sharon S., Pak, Yoon K., “Contesting the Model Minority and Perpetual Foreigner Stereotypes: A Critical Review of Literature on Asian Americans in Education,” Review of Research in Education, 31 (no. 1, 2007), pp. 95-130 (Invited Submission).
  • Pak, Yoon K., "Multiculturalism Matters: Learning from Our Past," in Valerie Ooka Pang, Ed., Race and Ethnicity in Education: Principles and Practices of Multicultural Education, Volume 1 (Praeger Publications, pp. 3-22).
  • Pak, Yoon K., "Teaching for Intercultural Understanding: A Teacher's Perspective in the 1940s," in Joseph Watras, Margaret Smith Crocco & Christine Woyshner, Eds., Social Education in the Twentieth Century: Curriculum and Context for Citizenship (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2004).
  • Pang, Valerie Ooka, Kiang, Peter and Pak, Yoon K., "Asian Pacific American Students: Fighting Overgeneralizations," in Banks, James A., Ed. and McGee Banks, Cherry A., Assoc. Ed., Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education, Second Edition (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003).

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