Curriculum Vitae
Cynthia Wang
cwang68@calstatela.edu
Education
| PhD | 2016 | University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Dissertation Title: “Temporal Dynamics in the Lives of Health Practitioners” Committee: Larry Gross (Chair), Manuel Castells, Mike Ananny |
| Master of Arts | 2010 | New York University, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication
Thesis: “Negotiating the Expert: Classical Music on YouTube.” Advisor: Martin Scherzinger |
| Bachelor of Science | 2004 | Northwestern University, School of Communication.
Majors: Radio/TV/Film & Biological Sciences (physiology) Minor: Asian American Studies |
| Study Abroad | 2009 (summer) | American University of Paris, Department of Global Communication |
Academic Appointments
| California State University, Los Angeles | Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies | Fall 2021-present |
| California State University, Los Angeles | Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies | Fall 2016-Summer 2021 |
| California State University, Northridge – Tseng College | Instructor of Communication | Fall 2015 |
| USC Annenberg School of Communication | Graduate Assistant, Instructor | Fall 2010-Summer 2016 |
| New York University | Teaching Assistant, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication | Spring 2010 |
| Northwestern University | Teaching Assistant, Department of Biological Sciences | Summer 2004 |
Peer Reviewed Publications
Kuo, R., Zhang, A., Shaw, V., Wang, C. (2021) #FeministAntibodies: Asian American Media in the Time of Coronavirus. Social Media + Society.
Close, S. & Wang, C. (2020). International Platforms, International Prejudice in the Platformization of Crafting. Social Media + Society.
O’Brien, N. & Wang, C. (2019). Unspoken Rules: Using the Game of Mao to Teach Sensemaking and Cultural Approaches to Communication. Discourse: The Journal of the Speech Communication Association of South Dakota. 5(7).
Wang, C. (2018). Temporal Dynamics in the Daily Lives of Health Practitioners. Time and Society. Online publication. doi: 10.1177/0961463X18787047
Wang, C. (2018). Health Practitioners’ Use of Communication Technologies. In T. M. Hale, W. S. Chou, & S. R. Cotton (Eds.), e-Health: Current Evidence, Promises, Perils, and Future Directions (93-122) for Studies in Media and Communication Series (Vol. 15). United Kingdom: Emerald Publishing.
Wang, C. (2016). The Promise of Kickstarter: Extents to which Social Networks Enable Alternate Avenues of Economic Viability for Independent Musicians through Crowdfunding. Social Media + Society. Online publication. doi: 10.1177/2056305116662394
Chen, N.-T. N., Ognyanova, K., Zhang, C., Wang, C., Ball-Rokeach, S. J., & Parks, M. (2015). Causing ripples in local power relations: The meso-level influence of a hyperlocal news website. Journalism Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/1461670X.2015.1078738
Wang, C. (2013). “A Slice of Time: An Exploration of Temporal Capital and its Relationships to Economics, Culture, and Society in a Technological and Digital Age.” Gnovis Journal of Communication, Culture, and Technology. 13(2). Accessible at http://gnovisjournal.org/2013/04/26/a-slice-of-time-an-exploration-of-temporal-capital-and-its-relationships-to-economics-culture-and-society-in-a-technological-and-digital-age/.
Wang, C. (2012). “Tinkering with the iPhone: Subversion and Re-Appropriation of Power in Apple’s World.” Journal for International Digital Media Arts Association. 8(2): pp. 31-41.
Books
Bien-Aime, S. & Wang, C. (Eds.). (2022). From Model Minority to Model Athlete: Perceptions of East Asian and Asian American/Canadian Athletics. Palgrave MacMillan.
Chao, L. & Wang, C. (Eds.). (2021). Communicating Across Differences: Negotiating Identity, Privilege, and Marginalization in the 21st Century. San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Clarke, M. J. & Wang, C. (Eds.). (2020). Indie Games in the Digital Age. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Book Chapters
Langner, G., Wu, M, & Wang, C. (2021). “Pride Performs Protest: Commodity and Queer Resistance.” In L. Chao & C. Wang (Eds.), Communicating Across Differences: Negotiation Identity, Privilege, and Marginalization in the 21st Century. San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Wang, C. (2021). Building The arqive as a digital interactive storytelling platform. In S. Meyer (Ed.), Interactive Storytelling. London: Routledge.
Wang, C. (2020). The Making of “Escape Room in a Box”. In M. J. Clarke & C. Wang (Eds.), Indie Games in the Digital Age. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Close, S. & Wang, C. (2017). Erotic Imaginaries of Power in Fan Fiction Tropes. In A. Spacey (Ed.), Sex, Subversion and Bodily Boundaries: The Darker Side of Slash Fiction (157-176). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
Peer Reviews of Books and Projects
Wang, C. (2024). Review: Untied. Review in Digital Humanities. 5(7). https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/untied/release/1
Wang, C. (2020). Book Review: Delayed Response: The Art of Waiting from the Ancient to the Instant World by Jason Farman. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2653-2655.
Wang, C. (2018). Book Review: Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space by Scott McQuire. Global Media and Communication, 14(1), 165-167.
Wang, C. (2017). Book Review: Global Asian American Popular Cultures, by S. Davé, L. Nishime, & T. Oren. International Journal of Communication, 1729-1731.
Refereed Conference Presentations
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Fostering greater regard: Communication studies inside and beyond prison walls” and “Holding regard in prison education and reentry programs” | New Orleans, LA | November 2024 |
| European Conference on Service-Learning in Higher Education | “Bringing Interdisciplinarity to Community Engaged Curriculum: Developing a College-Wide Community Engagement Minor at a Public Urban University” | Rome, Italy | September 2023 |
| Western Regions Continuums of Service | “Wading into the Deep: Imagining a College-Wide Community Engagement Minor” | Honolulu, HI | March 2023 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “COVID and Incarcerated Students: What do We do When Our Students Start Dying?” | Seattle, WA | November 2021 |
| Swiss Design Network Online Conference – “Design as Common Good” | “Designing The arqive: Queering the Common” | Remote Conference | March 2021 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Incarcerated and Parolee Student Success in Communication: Where Are We Now?” (panel) | Remote Conference | November 2020 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Communication for (Inmate) Survival: Prison Teaching Initiatives” and “Talking to Survivors and Survivors Talking” Panel (presenting on The arqive) | Baltimore, MD | November 2019 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) | “Affective Rejection: The Temporal Implications of Academic Labor” | Washington, DC | May 2019 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Fear of a Queer Gallifrey: Social Factors Underlying Resistance to a Newly Female Television Character”(with TJ Billard) & “Geolocated Digital Storytelling as Participatory Engagement in LGBTQ Communities” | Salt Lake City, UT | November 2018 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) | “Communicating Resistance: How Undocumented Students Perform Activism Through Visual Counternarratives on Social Media” (with Kristina Ruiz-Mesa) & “Unspoken Rules: Using the Game of Mao (Mau) to Teach Sensemaking and Cultural Approaches to Communication” (with Nina O’Brien) | Prague, Czech | May 2018 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Health Practitioners’ Use of Communication Technologies” & “Prison to School Pipeline: Creating and Maintaining a Model BA Program in Communication Studies for Prisoners” | Dallas, TX | November 2017 |
| Eighth International Conference on the Image | “From Shadows to Social Media: Exploring the Imagery and Representations of Undocumented DACA Students in the United States.” (with Kristina Ruiz-Mesa) | Venice, Italy | October 2017 |
| Console-ing Passions | “GlobaltraQs: An LGBTQ Digital Storytelling Map” (installation) | East Carolina University | July 2017 |
| Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference | “Asian American Musicians and Digital Transnationalism” | Sydney, Australia | December 2016 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Making Digital Space: Asian Americans in the Age of the Internet” & “The Promise of Kickstarter” | Philadelphia, PA | November 2016 |
| Extending Play Conference (Rutgers University) | “Destroyed Time” (with Aaron Trammell) | New Brunswick, NJ | October 2016 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) | “A Day in the Life” | Fukuoka, Japan | June 2016 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) | “Utilizing Temporal Capital as a Conceptual Framework.” (Awarded conference waiver for excellent student paper) | San Juan, Puerto Rico | May 2015 |
| International Conference on Business, Information, and Cultural Creative Industries (ICBIC) | “Temporal Capital, Interstitiality, and Mobile” & “GlobaltraQs: An International LGBTQ Storytelling App” | Taipei, Taiwan | July 2014 |
| International Communications Association (ICA) Mobile Pre-conference | “On Mobility, Time, and Waiting” | Seattle, WA | May 2014 |
| Genders, Bodies, and Technology (GBT) | “’I’ve Changed.’ The Authority of Medical Discourse in the Debate between Conversion Therapy and the Gay Rights Movement” | Blacksburg, VA | May 2014 |
| Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference (IACS) | “Out and Around Asian LGBT Diasporic Networks” & “ Asian American Musicians Renegotiating Identity in a Transnational Context” | Singapore | July 2013 |
| International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) | “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Evil Twin: Sherlock and Moriarty as Opposite Sides of Capitalism” (co-authored with John Kephart III) | Dublin, Ireland | June 2013 |
| International Communications Association (ICA) | “Slices of Time: Temporal Capital and Temporally-Bound Mediums in the Age of Digital Media and the Internet” | London, UK | June 2013 |
| International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) | “Asian American Musicians, Digital Media, Transnational Networks, and Economic Viability” | Austin, TX | March 2013 |
| National Association of Ethnic Studies (NAES) | “Making Space, Negotiating Identities, Being Seen: Asian American Musicians in the Age of Digital Media and the Internet” | Los Angeles, CA | November 2011 |
| National Communication Association (NCA) | “Making Space, Negotiating Identities, Being Seen: Asian American Musicians in the Age of Digital Media and the Internet” | New Orleans, LA | November 2011 |
| New York State Communications Association (NYSCA) | “Negotiating the Expert: Classical Music and YouTube” | New York, NY | October 2010 |
Conference Planning Activities
| National Communication Association (NCA) | Panel: “Rejection Happens: Reducing Stigma and Increasing the Transparency and Normalcy of Rejection in Academia” (Co-organizer) | Dallas, TX | November 2017 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) Mobile Pre-conference | Panel on Mobile/Mobilities, Civic Engagement, and the Trump Administration (Co-organizer) | San Diego, CA | May 2017 |
| International Communication Association (ICA) | Blue Sky Workshop on Media and Migration (Co-organizer) | Fukuoka, Japan | June 2016 |
Selected Guest Lectures and Invited Talks
| October 2024 | California State University Channel Islands | “The power of intersectionality: Embracing our complex identities” |
| October 2023 | The ONE Foundation – Circa: Queer Histories Festival | “Immersive storytelling and The arqive” |
| September 23, 2020 | University of Technology, Sydney | “Designing The arqive.” |
| September 9, 2019 | California State University Los Angeles | “Queer Disappearance” (American Communities Program) |
| May 2019 | Los Angeles Contemporary Archives | “Common Ground: Hidden Queer History in Los Angeles” |
| October 17, 2017 | California State University Los Angeles | “Public Voices, Blogging, Podcasts, and the Humanities” (American Communities Program) |
| September 7, 2017 | California State University Los Angeles | “Interrogating Civility: Its Uses and Limits” (American Communities Program) |
| April 11, 2017 | California State University Los Angeles | “Technologies of Truth and Critical Theory in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era” |
| September 29, 2016 | University of Southern California, Annenberg Innovation Lab Ideation Huddle | “Banksy on Every Corner” (Guest Provocateur) |
| April 22, 2016 | California State University Channel Islands, Careers in Health Communication Panel, Professors Nancy Chen & Tracylee Clarke | “Opportunities in Health Communication” |
| October 13, 2015 | University of Southern California, Gender and Sexuality Class, Professor Chris Freeman | “GlobaltraQs: Mapping LGBTQ Stories Around the World” |
| October 1, 2015 | California State University Channel Islands, Health Communication Class, Professor Nancy Chen | “Temporal Dynamics in the Practice of Health Care” |
| September 30, 2015 | ONE Gay and Lesbian Archives, University of Southern California | “Mapping Queer Terrains: Telling Stories from the Local to the Global” (panel discussion) |
| September 24, 2015 | Sounding Out! Podcast (soundstudiesblog.com) | “Ruptures in the Soundscape of Disneyland” |
| February 3, 2015 | University of Southern California, Master of Social Work class, Professor Bianca Harper | “LGBTQ 101: Sexuality and Society” |
| November 17, 2014 | Scripps College, Ally Month Event (Claremont, CA) | “Experiences of an Asian, female, queer academic” |
| November 15, 2014 | Japanese American National Museum, Okaeri 2014 Event (Los Angeles, CA) | “LGBTQ 101 Workshop and API Equality” |
| September 17, 2013 | Uppsala University (Sweden) | “Slices of Time: Temporal Capital, Technology, and Society” |
| September 25, 2013 | Peninsula High School (Palos Verdes, CA) | “Critical Race Theory’s Use in Debate” |
Courses Taught
| Comm 2500: Communication, Identity, and Culture | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2024 |
| Comm 2890: Introduction to Intercultural Communication | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2017*, Spring 2018, Fall 2018*, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021*, Spring 2022* |
| Comm 3200: Theories of Communication, Humanities | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Summer 2019*, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2024 |
| Comm 3400: Methods of Communication: Humanities | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2018, Spring 2022, Summer 2023 (DTLA) |
| Comm 3835: Sex and Gender in Language and Literature | California State University, Los Angeles | Spring 2023, Fall 2024 |
| Comm 3850: Communication of Raced, Classed, and Gendered Identities | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2021 |
| Comm 4340: Technology and Human Interaction (Undergraduate Upper Division) | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021*, Fall 2022* |
| Comm 4440: Sex Roles in Communication | California State University, Los Angeles | Spring 2019 |
| Comm 4490: Social Justice Capstone | California State University, Los Angeles | Spring 2020 |
| Comm 5030: Graduate Research Methods: Qualitative/Humanities | California State University, Los Angeles | Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024 |
| Comm 5150 & 5830: Cultural Studies (Graduate Seminar) | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2016, Fall 2019, Fall 2022, Fall 2023 |
| Comm 5800: Theories of Communication, Humanities (Graduate Seminar) | California State University, Los Angeles | Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2021 |
| Comm 5810: Visual Rhetoric (Graduate Seminar) | California State University, Los Angeles | Fall 2018, Fall 2020 |
| Introduction to Media Studies | Early Entrance Program, Cal State LA | Summer 2022 |
| Comm 450: Visual Culture and Communication | University of Southern California | Summer 2016 |
| Comm 339 & Comm 454: Communication Technologies | University of Southern California and California State University, Northridge | Summer 2015, Fall 2015 |
| Comm 204: Public Speaking | University of Southern California | Fall 2014, Spring 2015 |
*taught at California State Prison, Lancaster campus
Selected Fellowships, Awards, and Grants
| California State University, Los Angeles | Provost Faculty Fellow Award | 2023-2024 |
| American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) | Digital Justice Development Grant ($100,000) for The arqive | July 2022-Dec 2023 |
| California State University, Los Angeles | Exceptional Service to Students Award | 2022-2023 |
| Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | Emerging Scholar | 2021 |
| California State University, Los Angeles – College of Arts & Letters | Dean’s Discretionary Fund recipient (with Drs. Kamran Afary and Michael Clarke) | Fall 2019 |
| California State University, Los Angeles | Assessment Mini-Grant | 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2022-2023 |
| California State University, Los Angeles – Office of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities | Course Release grant | 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2022-2023, 2023-2024 |
| California State University Entertainment Alliance | Speaker Series Grant (with Michael Clarke in TV/F) | Spring 2018 |
| California State University, Los Angeles – CETL | Course Redesign for Student Success Program (ACUE), Designing Your Blended Course (QM) | Spring 2017, Summer 2019 |
| USC Endowed Fellowship | “Temporal Dynamics in the Lives of Health Practitioners” | 2015-2016 |
| Annenberg Summer Research Fellowship | “Health Practitioners’ Use of Communication Technologies” | Summer 2015 |
| Diploma in Innovation Grant | GlobaltraQs: An LGBTQ Storytelling Map (http://www.globaltraqs.com) | 2013-2014 |
| Annenberg Graduate Fellowship | Doctoral Fellowship | 2010-2015 |
Service to California State University, Los Angeles
| University Level | Panel for New Faculty Orientation | Fall 2017 |
| Asian/Asian American Studies Advisory Board Member | 2018-present | |
| Provost’s Advisory Committee for Honorary Degrees | 2018-2019 | |
| College Assessment Coordinator (Arts & Letters) | 2020-2021 | |
| Equity Coordinator (Arts & Letters) | 2021-present | |
| College Level (Arts & Letters) | ISAC (Curriculum Committee) | Spring 2017, Fall 2024 |
| College Assessment Coordinator | 2020-2021 | |
| Department Level (Communication Studies) | Student Affairs Committee | 2016-2017, 2024-present |
| Fiscal Affairs Committee | 2016-2019 | |
| Assessment & Student Success Committee | 2017-present | |
| Website Manager | 2017-present | |
| Other | Cal State LA Wind Ensemble (Oboe) | 2018-2020 |
Research Groups and Associations
| Multi-institutional collaboration (led out of Harvard University) | AAPI COVID-Research Group | Advisor | 2020-present |
| USC Annenberg School of Communication | Annenberg Innovation Lab | Research Assistant | Spring 2014 |
| Alhambra Project Research Group, Metamorphosis (Advisor: Dr. Sandra Ball-Rokeach) | Research Assistant | Fall 2012 to August 2016 | |
| Games and Culture Journal (Editor: Dr. Douglas Thomas) | Editorial Assistant, Research Assistant | Fall 2012 to Fall 2013 | |
| Economics and Culture Research with Dr. Christopher Smith | Research Assistant | Fall 2011 to Spring 2012 | |
| Civic Paths Research Group (Advisor: Dr. Henry Jenkins) | Research Assistant | Fall 2010 to Spring 2011 |
Community and Other Creative Work
| Microaggressions AAPI | KAYLT Panelist | July 30, 2024 |
| AAPI Violence | Panelist | March 2021 |
| Colloquy: A Journal of the Department of Communication Studies, Cal State LA (Los Angeles) | Supervising Co-editor | Fall 2018 – Present |
| Restorative Education Project (Los Angeles, CA) | Co-organizer | May 2017 – Present |
| The arqive (formerly GlobaltraQs): https://thearqive.com | Co-founder | January 2014 – Present |
| COPE Health Solutions (Los Angeles, CA) | Alumni Advisory Board Member | March 2012 – August 2016 |
| API Equality LA (Los Angeles, CA) | Committee Member (Public Education, Outreach and Recruitment, Pioneers Documentation Project), Volunteer, Speaker, Trainer, Videographer | October 2010 – Present |
| Northwestern University Alumni Admissions Council | Member, Interviewer | January 2005 – Present |
| USC’s LGBT Resource Center Speaker’s Bureau (Los Angeles, CA) | Speaker/Lecturer | September 2011 – August 2016 |
| Eleos Music School (Los Angeles, CA) | Board of Advisors Member | June 2013 – June 2014 |
| NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival (New York, NY) | General Volunteer: Assisted with general office duties and festival coordination/operations | Summer 2010 & Summer 2011 |
| America Reads (New York, NY) | Tutor at University Neighborhood High School: Worked with socio-economically diverse and oftentimes disadvantaged high school students on math (algebra), humanities, arts | September 2008 – June 2009 |
Professional Experience
| January 2014 – Present | The arqive (formerly GlobaltraQs) – Los Angeles, CA
Founder
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| November 2004 – August 2008; April 2015 – April 2016 | COPE Health Solutions – Los Angeles, CA
http://www.copehealthsolutions.org Regional Director/Manager, Health Workforce Programs (2004-2008) · Implemented and managed all hospital operation aspects of a comprehensive health workforce development program, including an experiential hospital-based internship for over 500 students in four partner hospitals throughout Southern California · Oversaw operations for health professions school expansion programs, and maintained relationships between hospital executives and community partners to solve workforce challenges facing the health care industry · Involved with business development and strategic planning of COPE as a member of the Executive Management Team. Prepared grants that awarded funding of $2 million toward program operations. · Recruited, hired, and trained staff members (Managers) to oversee program operations for each partner hospital location in a supervisory capacity · Produced two short documentaries for the 2007 Larry King Cardiac Foundation annual King of Hearts Gala Event · Named Distinguished Team Member of 2006 Director, International Health Scholar Programs (2015-2016)
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| December 2007 – June 2008 | The World Scholar’s Cup
Staff Member/Competition Coordinator · Involved with organizing regional meets in the United States · Involved with organizing the World Finals, a 2-day international academic competition in Seoul, Korea involving over 160 middle school and high school students from 9 countries · Coordinated on-site housing assignments for the World Finals and other logistics during the competitions · Assisted in fundraising efforts · Corresponded with individual teams in preparation for competition · Presented the program at a teacher’s conference in Sydney, Australia (June 2008) |
| October 2004 – August 2006 | Gothic Pictures – Newbury Park, CA
Producer – Twixter · Oversaw all aspects of pre-production, production, and post-production of the feature-length film · Managed production budget and contracts with cast and crew members |
| April 2001 – September 2004 | Northwestern University – Evanston, IL
Campus Tour Guide and Member of the Student Admissions Association · Conducted tours of Northwestern’s Evanston campus · Coordinated over 800 accepted students to the university for a weekend visit as the Co-chair of “Day at Northwestern” in Spring 2002 |
| Summer 2003 | Scott Rudin Productions (Paramount Studios) – Hollywood, CA
Production Office Intern |
| Summer 2001 & Summer 2002 | Medical Office of Dr. Green Hsueh – Northridge, CA
Intern and Translator · Assisted with general office duties and coverage · Translated English/Chinese (Mandarin) during medical missions to Nanning, Guangxi (2001) and Hufei, Anhui (2005) in China |
Additional Experiences
| Northwestern University Entertainment Alliance (Los Angeles, CA) | Board Member for Music Events | 2005 – 2006 |
| Various Independent Films (Los Angeles, CA) | Producer, Unit Production Manager, 1st and 2nd Assistant Director, Director, Screenwriter | 2004 – 2008 |
| WASABI: Northwestern’s Asian American Student Improvisation Troupe | Co-Founder | 2002 |
| Foundation of Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) | Senior Volunteer
◦ Coordinated and recruited volunteers for film festival from Northwestern ◦ Coordinated the Justin Lin film, “Better Luck Tomorrow” street team |
2001 – 2002 |
Other Skills
- Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
- Classically trained in piano, oboe, and saxophone.
- Performing and recording musician and songwriter (http://www.cynthiawangmusic.com).
Cynthia Wang 