About "Maryknoll Sisters Project"

This project began in 2009 when I met award-winning filmmaker Nancy Tong in Hong Kong. Subsequently, I signed on as a researcher for her documentary film about the work of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, during the decades from 1920s through the 1970s. After a year's collaboration, I am now the principal researcher ("The Historian") and associate producer for the film, "Trailblazers In Habits."

While doing research at the Maryknoll Archives in Maryknoll, NY (near Ossining), and hearing one of the Sisters talk about her work in Boston's Chinatown, I expanded the scope of my "Maryknoll Sisters Project" to include their histories among the Asian communities in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle, and their work with the Russian and Japanese communities in Darien, Manchuria, in the 1930s. I have scheduled visits to the Maryknoll Archives and the National Archives in Spring 2011 to collect materials for "Asian American Stories" and "Manchuria Story."

The links on this page are not "live," but they serve to give readers/visitors an idea of the scope of this project.