Staff and Faculty
Director
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Kale B. Fajardo Director, Asian American Studies Program; Associate Professor of American Studies |
208 Scott Hall
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Staff
| Name | Contact |
|---|---|
| Maiv Muas Xiong Outreach and Program Coordinator |
782 Social Sciences Building [email protected] |
Core Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Ananya Chatterjea অনন্যা চট্টোপাধ্যায় Professor Department of Dance |
[email protected] | Social Justice Choreography, Contemporary Dance of Asia and Africa, Aesthetics, Movement, Women's Studies, Choreography and Performance, Performance in Global Contexts, Politics of Cultural Production, Theorizing Dancing Bodies, Choreography and Social Justice, Contemporary Dance of Asia and Africa |
| Elliott Powell Associate Professor Department of American Studies |
104 Scott Hall
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American popular music and culture, critical race theory and comparative ethnic studies, feminist and queer studies, African American and Asian American studies, music and politics, music and globalization, jazz, hip hop, sound studies |
| Josephine Lee Professor Department of English, Department of American Studies |
310D Lind Hall 612-625-9510 [email protected] |
Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies Asian American studies |
| Laura Garbes Professor Department of Sociology |
925 Social Sciences Building [email protected] |
Racism, Organizational Theory, Media, Economic Sociology, Cultural Studies |
| Kale B. Fajardo Associate Professor Department of American Studies |
104 Scott Hall
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Philippine studies, Filipino/a American studies, Asian/Asian American studies, American studies, masculinity studies, gender studies, feminist studies, queer studies, migration/immigration/transnationalism/ diasporas/globalization, maritime studies, Pacific World, port cities |
| Karen Ho Associate Professor Department of Anthropology |
395 Hubert H. Humphrey Center
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Cultural studies of finance capital; finance, globalization, and capitalism; ethnography; feminist studies; political economy; United States; comparative race and ethnicity |
| Pao Houa Her Assistant Professor Department of American Studies |
W170 Regis Center for Art West
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Art |
| Kari Smalkoski Assistant Professor Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
414 Ford Hall [email protected]
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Masculinity, gender and identity, education and political economy, LGBTQ youth as well as youth sports and social capital |
| Mai Na Lee Associate Professor Department of History |
937 Heller Hall 612-625-6124 [email protected] |
Southeast Asia, highland Southeast Asian studies, Southeast Asian American/Hmong communities |
| Melanie Abeygunawardana Assistant Professor Department of American Studies |
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Contemporary Asian American and African American literature, critical race theory, and affect studies
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| Richard Lee Professor Department of Psychology |
N563 Elliott Hall 612-625-6357 [email protected] |
Counseling psychology, prevention science, ethnic minority mental health, international adoption, individual differences, Asian American studies |
| Teresa Toguchi Swartz Associate Professor Department of Sociology |
933 Social Sciences Building 612-626-1862 [email protected] |
Families; intergenerational relations; social inequality; Asian American studies; gender; welfare state; children, youth, and young adulthood |
| Yuichiro Onishi Associate Professor Department of African American & African Studies |
808 Social Sciences 612-624-9847 [email protected] |
Black radicalism and internationalism, African American history, transnational American studies, critical race studies, Asian American studies |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Vichet Chhuon Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching College of Education & Human Development |
359 Peik Hall 612-625-4331 [email protected] |
Motivation, urban education, racial and ethnic identities, adolescent development, school connectedness, immigrant youth, Asian American studies |
| Bic Ngo Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education and Human Development |
350A Peik Hall 612-625-7520 [email protected] |
Culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education, immigrant education |
| Moin Syed Professor Department of Psychology |
N567 Elliott Hall 612-625-9501 [email protected] |
Identity development among culturally and ethnically diverse youth, intersections among multiple identities, educational and career pathways, narrative psychology |
| Ruby Nguyen Associate Professor Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health |
Div. Epidemiology & Community Health 612-626-7559 |
Pubic health; health; immigrant health; family violence; environmental (chemical exposure) health |
| Michelle Pasco Assistant Professor Family Social Science |
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Neighborhoods, ethnic-racial concentration, adolescent development, family processes ethnic-racial identity, political identity, discrimination, socialization, mixed methods |
| Alvin Zhou Assistant Professor Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication |
325 Murphy Hall 612-625-5088 [email protected] |
Computational social science, social movement, big data, political communication, strategic communication. |
| Ka I Ip Assistant Professor Institute of Child Development |
[email protected] | Children of immigrant, cultural contexts, social and neigborhood inequalities, stress, social determinants of health and emotion regulation, children and adolescent mental health, brain and HPA axis development |
| Aamina Ahmad Assistant Professor English |
[email protected] | Creative Writing, Fiction, Drama and Writing for the Screen |
| Kay A. Simon Assistant Professor Family Social Science |
[email protected] | LGBTQ+ families and future parenthood, LGBTQ+ youth, Identity and identity development |
| Xiaoran Sun Assistant Professor Family Social Science |
[email protected] | Family systems and adolescent development; Digital technology and family; Computational social science |
| V. V. Ganeshananthan Associate Professor English |
[email protected] | Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction, journalism, contemporary novels, South Asian diaspora literature, South Asian Anglophone literature, Sri Lanka, Tamil |
Instructors
| Name | Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Rupa Thadhani Adjunct Professor Asian American Studies Program |
[email protected] |