Amy Sueyoshi
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Amy Sueyoshi | |
|---|---|
| Provost of San Francisco State University | |
| Assumed office July 1, 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Jennifer Summit |
| Personal details | |
| Born | February 4, 1971 |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | Barnard College University of California, Los Angeles |
| Fields | Ethnic Studies |
| Institutions | San Francisco State University |
Amy Sueyoshi is the provost of San Francisco State University.[1] Sueyoshi is a trained historian specializing in sexuality, gender, and race. Her publications and lectures focus on issues regarding race and sexuality such as cross-dressing, pornography, and marriage equality.
Sueyoshi began teaching at SFSU in 2002 as an assistant professor in Race and Resistance Studies and Sexuality Studies. She has a B.A. from Barnard College and a Ph.D. from UCLA.[2] She is the author of a book on Yone Noguchi, Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi (2012), and has written a second book manuscript Sex Acts: Race, Leisure, and Power in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco, under review at University of Colorado Press. In addition to her academic and scholarly work, Sueyoshi is an activist and leader in the LGBTQIA community in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally.[3]
Sueyoshi served as dean of SFSU's College of Ethnic Studies, the first college in the nation to house the five departments of Africana Studies, American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Race and Resistance Studies.[4][5] She was named provost of SFSU in April 2022, the first person of color to serve as provost.[6][7]
Selected community work
Sueyoshi has worked on a variety of community projects.[8]
GLBT Historical Society and GLBT History Museum
- Founding co-curator of GLBT History Museum, 2008–present.
- Board of directors co-chair, 2009–2012.
- Board of directors, 2007–2013.
- Program Committee co-chair, 2009–2010.
(Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Transgender Community)
- Dragon Fruit Historical Preservation Project Founder and Director, 2011–2012.
- Scholarship Program Founder and Committee Chair, 2007–2014.
Videos promoting APIQWTC
- KTVU Bay Area People
API Equality — Northern California
- Dragon Fruit Oral History Project Founder and Adviser, 2012–present.
