Maura Dykstra - UCLA

Related Work Experience:
Maura Dykstra
505 Connecticut St. □ San Francisco, CA 94107 □ (916) 212 – 1226
maurad@ucla.edu
STUDENT TEACHING ASSISTANT – 2007 – 2008 academic year, UCLA History Department.
STUDENT ORGANIZER – 2007 – 2008 China Studies Colloquium (Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA).
TEACHING ASSISTANT (January 2004 – July 2004) CSU, Sacramento Department of Anthropology.
WRITING TUTOR (January 2004 – July 2004) CSU, Sacramento (Educational Opportunity Program).
STUDENT TEACHING ASSISTANT (August 2003 – December 2004), CSU, Sacramento (EOP).
College Education and Language Training Programs:
○ Currently enrolled in the History MA/Ph.D. program at UCLA, studying late imperial China.
GPA = 4.00
○ Currently attending Eastern China Normal University’s graduate program for Chinese history
in Shanghai, China as part of a pre-dissertation fellowship awarded by the UCLA Asia
Institute.
○ National Taiwan University – International Chinese Language Program, Summer 2007.
○ Zhejiang University’s Chinese Language and Culture Program in Hangzhou, China
(September 2005 – January 2006.)
○ Monterey Institute of International Studies: Summer Language Intensive Program in
Mandarin Chinese (June – August, 2005.)
○ California State University, Sacramento – Spring of 2002 to Spring of 2005.
Graduated December, 2004, with a B.A. in History, as well as a Minor in Latin.
Summa Cum Laude with a CSUS GPA of 3.965
○ City College of San Francisco – Spring of 1998 to Spring of 1999.
Published Articles:
○ “White Lotuses, Shining Red Lanterns, and the Eternal Mother: The Subversive Legacy of the
Wusheng Lao Mu from the White Lotus Rebellions to the Boxer Movement,” published in The
McNair Scholars Journal 2004.
○ “The Greek Phalanx and its Cultural Role in the City-States of Ancient Greece,” published in
Clio 2003 (A journal of the Rho Xi chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society.)

Conferences:
○ Presenter and co-organizer (liaison to the organizing committee based at University of
California, San Diego); “All-California Graduate Conference in Chinese History,” UCLA, June
1, 2008.
○ Lead organizer, discussant, speaker; “China Undisciplined : An interdisciplinary graduate
student conference celebrating the creative spaces that arise in the (de)construction of
‘China,’” UCLA, May 30 and 31, 2008.
○ Moderator, “Anecdote, Gossip, and Occasion in Traditional China,” UCLA, May 16 and 17,
2008.
○ Presenter; “Columbia University Graduate Conference on East Asia,” February, 2008.
○ Presenter; “Western / Southwestern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies,
University of Utah,” September 20 – 22, 2007.
○ Presenter; “Nineteenth Annual CSU Student Research Competition” (CSU, Sacramento
level) at California State University, Sacramento. 2005.
○ Presenter; “Nineteenth Annual CSU Student Research Competition” (CSU-wide level) at
California State University, Sacramento. 2005.
○ Presenter; “Ronald E. McNair Research Conference,” Pennsylvania State University, 2004.
○ Presenter; “2004 Western McNair Symposium ,” University of California, Berkeley, 2004.
○ Presenter; “Making Sense of (dis)Order: A Conference Commemorating the 50th
Anniversary of the Anthropology Major at California State University, Sacramento,” 2004.
Financial Recognition:
Languages:
ECNU Pre-Dissertation Research Grant (awarded by the UCLA Asia Institute) – 2008
UCLA Five-Year Chancellor’s Prize Fellowship – 2006 – 2011
Chancellor’s Prize Summer Mentorship – 2007 and 2008
First Prize (Undergraduate Humanities Division) – Nineteenth Annual CSU Student Research
Competition – 2005
Research Stipend – McNair Scholars Program – 2003 – 2004
Advanced reading, speaking, and writing proficiency in Mandarin Chinese
Advanced reading proficiency in Classical Chinese, Latin.

References:
Beginning reading, speaking, and writing proficiency in Japanese
University of California, Los Angeles:
DR. RICHARD VON GLAHN, Professor (History Department) 9278 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487 □ (310) 825 – 3087 □ vonglahn@history.ucla.edu
DR. R. BIN WONG, Professor (History Department), Director of the Asia Institute 11292 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487 □ (310) 825-0007 □ rbwong@international.ucla.edu
California State University, Sacramento:
DR. RICHARD SHEK, Professor (Humanities and Religious Studies) Mendocino Hall 2022
Sacramento, California 95819-6083 □ (916) 278-5331□ rshek@csus.edu
DR. FRANK J. GAROSI, Professor Emeritus (History Department) Tahoe Hall 3084
Sacramento, California 95819-6059 □ (916) 278-6340 □ garosi@csus.edu
DR. AARON COHEN, Assistant Professor (History Department) Tahoe Hall 3095
Sacramento, California 95819-6059 □ (916) 278-4076 □ cohenaj@csus.edu
DR. LEWIS ROBINSON, Professor (Foreign Languages Department) Mariposa Hall 2059
Sacramento, California 95819-6087 □ (916) 278-6726 □ robinsonl@csus.edu