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About Professor Yap 

Stacey G. H. Yap received her B.S. in marketing from Northeastern University and her Ph.D. and M.A in sociology from Boston University. After completing her education, she returned to Singapore and worked as a marketing researcher and lectured at the Institute of Marketing.

She began teaching sociology at Plymouth State University in 1986, and has taught courses in sociology and women's studies, including Sociology of the Family, Race & Ethnicity, Urban Sociology and Social Stratification. Her favorite subjects include Women in World Development and World Heritage Studies, a graduate class she has taught for several years.

Stacey travels widely and had presented conference papers in countries such as Hong Kong and the Netherlands. She is the author of a book, Gather Your Strength, Sister: The Emerging Role of Chinese Women Community Workers (AMS Press, 1989). Her research on Chinese American families, Asian-American feminism and domestic migrant workers has been published in a number of anthologies and journals. Currently her interests include women and migration, historic preservation, and Asian-American community politics. She is also a ballet mom; if she is not waiting in a dance studio, she does adjudication in new dance pieces and attends the ballet.