1. Keisha A. Brown
University of Southern California, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Taper Hall 356, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357
(404) 200-2435 / Keishabr@usc.edu/
https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/keisha-a-brown
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Southern California, East Asian Languages and Cultures May 2015
Dissertation: “Representations of Blackness in Sino-African American
Relations, 1949-1972”
Committee: Joshua Goldstein (Chair), Brian Bernards, Taj Frazier,
Matthew Johnson, Francille Wilson
B.A., University of Notre Dame May 2007
Double major in American Studies and Chinese
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“W.E.B. Du Bois’ Role in the Formation of Representations of Blackness as Conceptualized by the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)” in Wings on Atlanta: 50th
W.E.B. DuBois Commemorative
Conference publication. (Forthcoming)
“Beyond the Margins: Ethnic Identity and African-American Consciousness in Han Chinese
Culture”. Wittenberg University East Asian Studies Journal, 32 (Spring 2007): 64-79.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Keisha Brown” chapter in Trailblasian: Black Women Expats in East Asia Anthology. T.K.
McLennon, ed. (June 2014).
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
“Sino-African American Relations, 1949-1972” Beyond Borders: History
Graduate Conference, University of Pittsburgh
April 2015
“Moving Beyond the Colored Metaphors of Red, Black, and Yellow” Western
Regional Association for Asian Studies Conference, Arizona State
University
October 2014
“Examining Sino-Black Relations in Maoist China Through Aubrey Pankey”
Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese
Humanities
April 2014
“Visual Representations of Blackness in Maoist China” Graduate Conference on
East Asia, Columbia University
February 2014

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SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS (continued)
“The Sound of Blackness: Paul Robeson, Aubrey Pankey and the Formation of
Representations of Blackness in Maoist China” Graduate Student Conference,
University of California San Diego
June 2013
“W.E.B. Du Bois’ Role in the Formation of Representations of Blackness as
Conceptualized by the Chinese Communist Party” Wings on Atlanta: 50th
W.E.B. DuBois Commemorative Conference, Clark Atlanta University
February 2013
GUEST LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS
“Travelling While Black: My Experience as an African-American Woman
Researching in China” Invited talk, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
February 2014
“Grad School 101" Invited panelist, McNair Scholars Program, University of
Southern California
March 2014
“Sino Foreign Relations in the Cold War” Guest lecture, China and the World,
East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California
October 2012
“Sino Foreign Relations in the Cold War” Guest lecture, Chinese Lives: An
Introduction to Chinese History, Department of History, University of
Southern California
April 2011
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
USC The Order of Areté Graduate Student Award May 2015
USC Final Year Dissertation Fellowship 2014-15
Center for Transpacific Studies Fellow 2014-15
USC Graduate School Gold Family Graduate Fellowship Summer 2013
EALC Department Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Award 2012-13
USC Graduate School Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education &
Academic Professional Development (EDGE/APD) Spring Travel
Award
Spring 2013
EALC Department Research Travel Grant Fall 2012
Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council Small Grant Summer 2012
USC U.S.-China Institute Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Fellowship Summer 2012
USC College Doctoral Fellowship 2007-12
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fall 2007-Sum 2009

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Ronald E. McNair Scholar at the University of Notre Dame June–August 2006
Developed original research paper entitled “Beyond the Margins: Ethnic Identity and African-
American Consciousness in Han Chinese Culture” Advisor: Professor Sylvia Lin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Global Chinese Cinemas and Cultural Studies. General education course
provides students with historical introduction to Chinese cinema contextualized
within global networks. Conducted in English with Professor Brian Bernards
Fall 2012
Chinese Lives: An Introduction to Chinese History. General education course
studying the lives of selected individuals who have helped to shape Chinese
politics and culture. Conducted in English with Professor Joshua Goldstein.
Spring 2011
East Asian Humanities: The Great Tradition. General education course
introducing major Chinese, Korean, and Japanese intellectual movements through
philosophy, poetry, and historical writing. Conducted in English with Professor
George Hayden
Spring 2014,
Fall & Spring
2013, Fall
2010
Chinese Civilization. General education course introducing major aspects of
Chinese civilization, interpretation of philosophy, literature, religion, art, and
music. Conducted in English with Professor Betting Birge
Fall 2009
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
USC Korean Studies Institute Graduate Student Symposium panel discussant January 2015
USC EALC Graduate Student Conference organizer 2014-15
USC Graduates Studying East Asia (G-SEA) 2012-2015
Journal of Asian Studies Graduate Student Modern China book review team 2012-13
USC Graduate Student Forum EALC Department representative 2007-08
LANGUAGES
English (native)
Mandarin Chinese (near native fluency, primary research language)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association
Association of Black Women in Higher Education
Association for Asian Studies
National Council for Black Studies

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REFERENCES
Joshua Goldstein
Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures
jlgoldst@usc.edu
(213) 821-2603
Francille Rusan Wilson
Associate Professor, American Studies and Ethnicity and History
frwilson@usc.edu
(213) 740-1667
Brian Bernards
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
bernards@usc.edu
(213) 740-3706
Updated May 2015