Daryl Maeda

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Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan - American Culture, 2001
M.A., University of Michigan - American Culture, 1996
M.A., San Francisco State University - Ethnic Studies, 1993
B.S., Harvey Mudd College - Mathematics, 1989

Regional and Thematic Interests

Asian American history and studies, comparative ethnic studies, radical social movements, the 1960s and 70s, transnational culture

Profile

Daryl Joji Maeda has been a faculty member at CU Boulder since 2005. Prior to his current position, he served as Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education at CU Boulder, Associate Dean for Student Success in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies. 

An interdisciplinary cultural historian, Maeda is a nationally recognized scholar in Asian American studies and comparative ethnic studies. He has published two books and numerous articles and book chapters on Asian American activism in the 1960s and 1970s. His most recent book, a cultural history of the iconic martial artist and actor Bruce Lee, was published in 2022.

Selected Publications

Books

Maeda, Daryl. Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee. NYU Press, 2022.

Maeda, Daryl. Rethinking the Asian American Movement.  American Social and Political Movements of the Twentieth Century series, Routledge, 2011.

Maeda, Daryl. Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America.  Critical American Studies series, University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Refereed Articles

Moses, Michele S., Daryl J. Maeda, and Christina H. Paguyo. “Racial Politics, Resentment, and Affirmative Action: Asian Americans as ‘Model’ College Applicants.” Journal of Higher Education.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2018.1441110

Daryl Joji Maeda.  “Nomad of the Transpacific: Bruce Lee as Method.”  American Quarterly 69, no. 3 (September 2017), 741-761.

Maeda, Daryl. “Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen: Constructing Asian American Identity through Performing Blackness, 1969-1972.”  American Quarterly 57, no. 4 (December 2005): 1079-1103.  Winner of the Constance M. Rourke Prize by the American Studies Association for the best article published in American Quarterly in 2005.

Edited Collections

Arturo Aldama, Elisa Facio, Daryl Maeda, and Reiland Rabaka, eds.  Enduring Legacies: Ethnic Histories and Cultures of Colorado.  University Press of Colorado, 2011.

Contributions to Edited Collections

Maeda, Daryl. “Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Anti-War Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives.” In Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, eds. Min Song and Rajini Srikanth (Cambridge University Press, in press), 221-36.

Maeda, Daryl. “Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Anti-War Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives.” In Cambridge History of Asian American Literature, eds. Min Song and Rajini Srikanth (Cambridge University Press, in press), 221-36.

Maeda, Daryl. “Movement.” In Keywords for Asian American Studies, eds. Cathy Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Vo, and K. Scott Wong (New York: NYU Press, 2015), 165-168.

Maeda, Daryl. “Before the Birth of Asian America: Asian Americans and the New Left.” In A New Insurgency: The Port Huron Statement and Its Times, eds. Howard Brick and Gregory Parker (Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, 2015), 301-317.

Maeda, Daryl. “The Asian American Movement.”  In Speaking Out: Activism and Protest in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. Heather Thompson (New York: Prentice Hall, 2009).