Richard A. Cheu

Neuroscientist, new product developer, economist, PhD candicate in History

RICHARD CHEU

PhD Candidate, Dept. of History
St. John’s University

300 East 59th Street, Apt. 807
New York, NY 10022
Cell: 929–923–2705
Email: richardcheu614@gmail.com


PROFILE

My education and career have spanned the biological sciences, medicine, marketing and economics, and presently, history. Currently enrolled in a PhD program in the Dept. of World History at St. John’s University, with the goal of writing a dissertation and book on the previously unpublished history of San Francisco’s Chinatown during the Chinese Exclusion Era.


EDUCATION

St. John’s University, New York
Ph.D. Doctoral Candidate in World History (current)

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
MBA, marketing & international economics

University of Oregon
Master of science, biology (reproductive endocrinology)

Stanford University
B.A., biology; undergraduate fellow in embryology

University of Oregon Medical School
United States Public Health Service fellow in neurophysiology

Catholic Diocese of Trenton
Ordained: Permanent Deacon

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY (SUMMARY)¬

CEO and founder, Aerobics for Eyes© LLC (current)
Interim Executive Director, China Institute in America, New York
Co-developer and co-presenter of a training program to improve the management skills of Asian American managers. Clients included AT&T and MacDonald’s.
Economic Advisor to the governments of Hong Kong, China, India, & Taiwan. Created economic plan to transform Taiwan into a market-driven economy.
USAID economic advisor, Caribbean Basin nations
President and founder, Enquiries Associates, market research and new products development
Director of International Media, BBDO International, New York
Manager of global marketing, BBDO International, New York
New food products manager, General Mills
New food products manager, Monsanto


TEACHING POSITIONS¬

Instructor in physiology, University of Oregon Medical & Nursing Schools
Adjunct professor, marketing, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ
Adjunct professor, human physiology, Brookdale Community College, Middletown, NJ


PUBLICATIONS

“Love Letters from Janey: 50 Years of Breaking Barriers Together” (self-published, 2022)
“A Family’s Hope (Life Story of Henry D. Cheu, M.D.)” New York Historical Society Exhibition, online article (2015)
“Living Well with Chronic Illness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide” (Self-published, 2013)
“An Immigrant’s Dream,” US–China Review, vol. 21, no. 4, fall 1997


PRESENTATIONS

Lecture, 140th Anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese Historical Society of America (May 2022)
Keynote speaker, Chinese American Genealogy Workshop and Oral History Training Sessions (January 2022)
Lecture, “Origin of American Anti-Asian Attitudes,” University of South Carolina at Beaumont (September 2021)
Keynote speaker, Jacksonville State University Asian Pacific American Heritage Month lecture (April 2021)
Featured scholar, New York Public Library webinar, “Chinese Railroad Workers in Stereoscopic Photography” (February 2021)
Six invited presentations across the U.S., “How the Chinese Built the Transcontinental Railroad” (2019)
Keynote speaker, New York City Health & Hospital Corp. Patient Safety Conference (2013)


VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Hospital and hospice chaplain, Bellevue Hospital, New York
Clinical Volunteer, Calvary Hospital, New York
Hospice chaplain, Mary Manning Ward Home, New York
Member, New Jersey Governor’s Commission for the Preservation and Use of Ellis Island
Member, Board of Directors, Save Ellis Island Foundation
Advisor to cultural and community organizations, Chinatown, New York
President, Northwestern University Club of New York and New Jersey
President, American Marketing Association, New Jersey chapter
Board of Fire Commissioners, Franklin Township, NJ
Fire Captain, EMT & EMT Instructor, Red Bank Fire Department, Red Bank, NJ
History interpreter, National Park Service / Amtrak Trails & Rails program: history presentations on long-distance Amtrak trains (New York City to Montreal and Washington, DC
Oral History instructor, Museum of the Chinese in America, New York