2001) "How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Post-National American Studies as a History of Race, Migration and the Commodification of Culture," essay in volume on Post-National American Studies, edited by John C. Rowe (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000) Academic Positions: Dr. Yu was elected to the Council of the American Historical Association--Pacific Coast Branch for 2006-2009, and the Executive Council of the American Studies Association for 2007-2010. Yu has served on the Managing Board of Editors for American Quartierly Journal and for Amerasia Journal. Dr. Yu is also the Principal of St. Johns College and was the Acting Principal for the Fall Semesters of 2007 and 2008, and again in the Winter semester of 2010. At UBC, Dr. Yu serves on the Provost's Advisory Committee on Equity, Discrimination and Harassment and on the Dean of Arts Advisory Committee on the Asia Pacific. He has also served on the Steering Committee of the Inter-Faculty Initiative in Migration Studies (IFIMS).