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Stacilee FORD

Affiliate Associate Professor

Additional Role

Dr. Ford is a cultural historian who researches and publishes in the areas of women's history, gender and history, transnational American Studies, Hong Kong cinema, memoir and history, transpacific cultural production, leadership and history, and global Mormon studies. She is a co-creator of the Massive Open Online Course, "Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens." She is interested in the connections between gender, generation, and historical change as well as the impact of popular culture and cultural production in different historical time periods. She is a founding member of The Women's Foundation (Hong Kong) and The HKU Women's Studies Research Centre. She has lived in Hong Kong since 1993.

RRST 10.48

EDUCATION

BA, Brigham Young University
EdM, Harvard University
EdD, Columbia University
PhD, The University of Hong Kong

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural History Focusing on U.S.- Asia Connections
Women's History & Gender and History
Transnational U.S. History
Leadership, History, and Globalization

Books

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BOOK AWARDS
COURSES TAUGHT
  • HIST2015, The United States Before 1900
  • HIST2031, History through Film
  • HIST2069, The History of American Popular Culture
  • HIST2070, Stories of Self: History Through Autobiography
  • HIST2077, Eating History
  • HIST7019, Cinema and Hong Kong History (MA)
  • GEND2003, Gender, Generation, and Leadership
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
EXTERNAL AFFILIATIONS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • Book Chapters
  • Articles
  • “Tracking Transpatriarchy: Gender, Generation, and Latter-day Saints in Hong Kong,” in Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye and Laurie Maffly-Kipp, eds., Mormonisms in Asia: Stories of Global Faith and Local Lives (Champaign: University of Illinois, 2026).
  • “Aspirationally Yours: Pan-Asian Cinematic Convergence,” in Gina Marchetti, Aaron Magnan-Park and Tan Sik-Kam, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema (London: Palgrave, 2018).
  • “Sister Acts: Relief Society and ‘Flexible Citizenship’ in Hong Kong,” in Joanna Brooks and Gina Colvin, eds., Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion (Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 2018).
  • “Reel Sisters and ‘Other Diplomacy’: Cathay Cinema’s Cold War Women,” in John Carroll and Priscilla Roberts eds., Hong Kong and the Cold War (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016).
  • “Blockbuster Dreams: Chimericanization in American Dreams in China and Finding Mr. Right,” in Priscilla Roberts, ed., The Power of Culture: Encounters Between China and the United States (Cambridge: Cambridge Press, 2016).
  • “Maybe It’s Time for a Little History Lesson Here”: Autobiographics and Ann Marie Fleming’s The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam,” in Monica Chiu, ed., Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015).
  • “Global Aches: Teaching Evans Chan's Bauhinia,” in Tony Williams, ed., Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories: The Cinema of Evans Chan (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2015).
  • “Crossing the Planes: Gathering, Grafting, and Second Sight in the Hong Kong China International District,” in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. Vol. 47, no. 3 (Fall 2014).
  • Hit the Road Jack: Essays on Culture of the American Road, Co-edited with Gordon Slethaug, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012)
  • “American Women in the New China: Muted Exceptionalisms at Twilight” in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2012).
  • Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong (Hong Kong University Press, 2011)
  • “Transpacific Waves in a Global Sea: Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting’s Cinematic Archive,” in Lingzhen Wang, ed., Women and Chinese Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
  • “Inquisitive American Women in the Age of Globalization,” in America in the Era of Globalization (Sichuan: Sichuan University Press, 2010).
  • “Sikh Masculinity, Religion, and Diaspora in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s English Lessons and Other Stories” (co-edited with Geetanjali Singh), in Men and Masculinities, February 2009.
  • Mabel Cheung Yuen-tiing's An Autumn's Tale (Hong Kong University Press, 2008)
  • “Hong Kong Goes to America,” in Gina Marchetti and Tam See Kam, eds., Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema: No Film is an Island (London: Routledge, 2007).
  • “Changed by the Encounter: Women Who Bridge the Sino-American Divide,” in Priscilla Roberts, ed., Bridging the Sino-American Divide: American Studies with Chinese Characteristics (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
  • “Perspectives on Women and Diplomacy: A View from Hong Kong,” in Priscilla Roberts and He Peiqun, eds., Bonds Across Borders: Women, China, and International Relations in the Modern World. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
  • “Fictionalizing Feminism: Xu Xi’s 1990s Hong Kong Fiction,” in Lilith, November, 2005.
  • “Movies, MacDonald’s and Mickey Mouse: Teaching American Studies in Hong Kong,” in Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 2004.
  • “Women, Gender, and HKU,” in Peter Cunich and Chan Lau Kit-ching, eds., An Impossible Dream: Hong Kong University from Foundation to Re-Establishment, 1910-1950 (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 2002).
  • “Portrayals of Gender and Generation, East and West: Suzie Wong in the Noble House,” (co-authored with Geetanjali Singh) in Thomas Y.T. Luk and James P. Rice, eds., Before and After Suzie: Hong Kong in Western Film and Fiction. (Shatin: Chinese University Press, 2001).
  • “Hong Kong Students Look at the U.S.A.: American Studies in Hong Kong” (co-authored with Gordon Slethaug) in American Studies, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1999.
  • “To Touch the Trends: Internationalizing American Studies: Perspectives from Hong Kong and Asia” (co-authored with Clyde Haulman), in American Studies International, Volume XXXIV, No. 2, 1998.
  • “Claim-Jumping at Century’s End: University Student Identity in Late-Transition Hong Kong,” in Max Skidmore, ed., Hong Kong & China: Pursuing a New Destiny (Singapore: Toppan Company, 1997).
  • “Claim-Jumping at Century’s End: University Student Identity in Late-Transition Hong Kong.” The Annals: Journal of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, September 1996.
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