Core Faculty
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Associate Professor
Research interests: Asian American history, Philippine and Filipino American studies, contemporary U.S. immigration, and nursing history.
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Professor
Research interests: Comparative historical studies of race, gender and class and their intersections in relation to immigration, labor markets, and citizenship. Uncovering the connections among social structure, cultural discourse, and everyday experience.
Elaine H. Kim
Professor
Research interests: Asian American literary and cultural studies, Korean American Studies, Asian and Asian American Feminist Studies.
Michael Omi
Associate Professor
Research interests: Racial theory and politics, racial/ethnic classification and the census, Asians Americans and racial stratification, and racist and anti-racist social movements.
Khatharya Um
Associate Professor
Research interests: Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian American Studies, refugee migration, transnational and diaspora studies, post-colonial, conflict and post conflict studies and genocide studies, access and education of racialized minorities in American public schools.
Lecturers
Joi Barrios
Lecturer
AAS 175: Contemporary Narratives on the Philippines and the United States
AAS 190: Filipino Performance in the Diaspora: Theatre, Dance, Music, Spoken Word
Hatem Bazian
Lecturer
AAS 128AC: Muslims in America
AAS 132AC: Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness
Christopher Chua
Lecturer
AAS 144: Religions of Asian America
AAS 20A: Introduction to the Asian American Experience
Huma Dar
Lecturer
AAS 190: Muslim Writers
AAS 138: Asian Popular Culture: Gender, Sexualities, and Racialization in South Asian (Indian) Cinematic Discourses
Harvey Dong
Lecturer
AAS 20A: Introduction to the Asian American Experience
AAS 20B: Issues in Contemporary Asian American Communities
AAS 121: Chinese American History
Fae Myenne Ng
Lecturer
AAS 181: Chinese American Literature
AAS 172: Asian American Literature: Border Crossings in Literature and Love
Jere Takahashi
Lecturer
AAS 122: Japanese American History
AAS 146: Asian Americans and Education
AAS 165: Research Methods: Video Documentation
Keiko Yamanaka
Lecturer
AAS 150: Gender and Generation in the Asian American Family
AAS 151: Asian American Women: Theory and Experience
Emeritus Faculty
Ling-chi Wang
Associate Professor Emeritus
AAS 131: Asian Diasporas and Asian America
AAS 190.2: Chinese American in Science and Technology
Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
Professor Emerita
Research interests: Anglophone and Sinophone Chinese American literatures; the Chinese diaspora; immigrant writing and film; transnational reception studies. Asian American literature: transnationality, globalization, and mobility; gender and sexuality; canon formation.
