Dr. Patti Duncan
Dr. Patti Duncan, Associate Professor of Women Studies, was thrilled to join the program in 2008, after spending eight years in Portland State University's Women's Studies Program. She received her B.A. from Vassar College, and earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at Emory University's Institute for Women's Studies. She specializes in 
transnational feminist theories and movements, women of color in the U.S., and Asian and Asian Pacific American women's writings and experiences. And she teaches courses including "Women of Color in the U.S.," "Asian American Women's Studies," and "Disney: Gender, Race, and Empire." In the past, she has also taught "Global Feminisms," "Feminist Theories," "Sexualities in a Global Context," and "Gender and the Global Economy.
Patti Duncan is the author of Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech (University of Iowa Press, 2004), and numerous articles about women of color, anti-racist feminist pedagogies, and transnational feminisms. Her current research focuses on the long terms effects of militarism and war on women and gender in Asia and the Pacific, and gendered forms of violence in transnational contexts. She recently completed a feature-length documentary film with her partner, Skye Fitzgerald, called Finding Face, 
which explores acid violence against women in Cambodia as a gendered form of violence and a human rights violation. The film had its world premiere in March 2009 at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva. She also acted as Associate Producer for Bombhunters (2006), a documentary film by Skye 
Fitzgerald about the long-term effects of war and genocide in Cambodia, which has screened at twelve international film festivals.
In Fall 2004, Patti was a visiting researcher at Ewha Woman's University in Seoul, Korea. In 2007, she led a travel seminar in Cuernavaca, Mexico on the topic of Gender, Migration, and Globalization. And she spent Fall 2008 on a ship, teaching for the Semester at Sea program, during which she traveled and taught in the Bahamas, Brazil, Namibia, South Africa, India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Hawai'i, and Costa Rica. She is a former recipient of grants and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, and the National Women’s Studies Association. She is also a member of APA Compass Collective, an Asian Pacific American public affairs radio program on KBOO 90.7 FM in Portland, where she produces programming relevant to local Asian Pacific American communities.
