+ Indicates this faculty member is the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award.

Program Coordinator

Vernadette Gonzalez, Professor. U.S. empire, cultural studies in Asia and the Pacific, militarism, tourism, gender and sexuality studies.

Core Faculty

Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor. Religion, Race, Ethnicity, Immigration.
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Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor. Asian American history, Filipino American studies, immigration history, adoption studies, nursing history.
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Lok Siu, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research. Transnationalism, Migration, Cultural Citizenship, Un/Belonging, Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Formation, Asians in the Americas, Cultural Politics of Food, Ethnography.
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Long Le-Khac, Assistant Professor. Relational race studies, literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs.
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Khatharya Um, Associate Professor. Education, memory, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American histories and communities, Southeast Asian diaspora, refugees, international migration, transnational and diaspora studies, genocide studies.
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Vernadette Gonzalez, Professor. U.S. empire, cultural studies in Asia and the Pacific, militarism, tourism, gender and sexuality studies.

Lecturers

Hatem A. Bazian | Profile

Michael Chang | Profile

Christopher Chua | Profile

Harvey C. Dong | Profile

Joe Lee | Profile

Hannah B. Michell | Profile

Fae M. Ng | Profile

Young Shin | Profile

Winston Tseng |  Profile

Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani | Profile

Keiko Yamanaka | Profile

Emeriti Faculty

Anna P. Leong, Lecturer Emerita.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Professor Emerita. Labor, citizenship, undocumented students, caring work, settler colonialism, skin color bias.
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Elaine H. Kim, Professor Emerita. Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies. 
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Jere Takahashi, Lecturer Emeritus.

L. Ling-Chi Wang, Professor Emeritus. Chinese Diaspora, Asian American Studies

+ Michael Omi, Professor Emeritus . Racial politics, racial theory, racial stratification, racial and ethnic categories and the US Census, racist and anti-racist social movements.
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Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong, Professor Emeritus. Ethnicity, sexuality, telecommunications, Asian Americans, demographic transformation, fragmentation, globalization, transportation, internet technology, construction of gender. anti-racist social movements.
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