Staff and Faculty

Staff

Name

Contact

Richard Lee
Director, DUS, Asian American Studies
Professor
Department of Psychology

N563 Elliott Hall
612-625-6357
richlee@umn.edu

Huab Xiong
Outreach and Program Coordinator

782 Social Sciences Building
hua-xg@umn.edu

CLA Core Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Ananya Chatterjea অনন্যা চট্টোপাধ্যায় Professor Department of Dance	ananya@umn.edu	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 ehpowell@umn.edu	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 jolee@umn.edu	Dramatic literature, theater history, performance studies Asian American studies
Kale B Fajardo Associate Professor Department of American Studies	104 Scott Hall 612-626-7646 kfajardo@umn.edu	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 karenho@umn.edu	Cultural studies of finance capital; finance, globalization, and capitalism; ethnography; feminist studies; political economy; United States; comparative race and ethnicity
Kari Smalkoski Assistant Professor Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies	414 Ford Hall smal0009@umn.edu	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 mainalee@umn.edu	Southeast Asia, highland Southeast Asian studies, Southeast Asian American/Hmong communities
Melanie Abeygunawardana Assistant Professor Department of American Studies		Contemporary Asian American and African American literature, critical race theory, and affect studies
Richard Lee Professor Department of Psychology	N563 Elliott Hall 612-625-6357 richlee@umn.edu	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 tswartz@umn.edu	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 ohni0001@umn.edu	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 vichet@umn.edu	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 bcngo@umn.edu	Culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education, immigrant education
Moin Syed Professor Department of Psychology	N567 Elliott Hall 612-625-9501 moin@umn.edu	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 Suite 300 612-626-7559 nguy0082@umn.edu	Pubic health; health; immigrant health; family violence; environmental (chemical exposure) health
Michelle Pasco Assistant Professor Family Social Science	mpasco@umn.edu	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 alvinyxz@umn.edu	Computational social science, social movement, big data, political communication, strategic communication.
Ka I Ip Assistant Professor Institute of Child Development	kaip@umn.edu	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
Marizen Ramirez Professor Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health	1210 Mayo 612-624-3143 mramirez@umn.edu	Public health, epidemiology, injury and violence prevention, interventions, health equity, policy evaluation, racial trauma, adverse child experiences, bullying
Laura Garbes Postdoctoral Fellow Sociology	925 Social Sciences Building garbes@umn.edu	Media, Racial Theory, Culture, Sound Studies, Organizational theory
Aamina Ahmad Assistant Professor English	ahmad291@umn.edu	Creative Writing, Fiction, Drama and Writing for the Screen
Kay A. Simon Assistant Professor Family Social Science	simo1253@umn.edu	LGBTQ+ families and future parenthood, LGBTQ+ youth, Identity and identity development
Xiaoran Sun Assistant Professor Family Social Science	sunx0521@umn.edu	Family systems and adolescent development; Digital technology and family; Computational social science
V. V. Ganeshananthan Associate Professor English	vganesha@umn.edu	Creative writing, fiction, non-fiction, journalism, contemporary novels, South Asian diaspora literature, South Asian Anglophone literature, Sri Lanka, Tamil