Staff and Faculty
Staff
|
Name |
Contact |
|---|---|
| Teresa Toguchi Swartz Director, Asian American Studies Associate Professor Department of Sociology |
778 Social Sciences Building 612-626-1862 tswartz@umn.edu |
| Michelle Lee Community Outreach Coordinator |
782 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4813 leex8041@umn.edu |
| Eunha Jeong Wood Community Outreach Coordinator |
782 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4813 wood0072@umn.edu |
Faculty
|
Name |
Contact | Specialties |
|---|---|---|
| Vichet Chhuon Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching College of Education & Human Development |
Room 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 |
| Jigna Desai Professor Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies |
425 Ford Hall 612-624-0363 desai003@umn.edu |
Asian American literature and media, feminist theory, postcolonial studies, queer/sexuality studies, South Asian diasporas, critical disability studies, autism, neuronormativity |
| 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 |
| Erika Lee Professor Department of History Director of Immigration History Research Center |
Andersen Library Suite 311 612-625-5573 erikalee@umn.edu |
Migration, race, and ethnicity; Asian Americans; 20th-century United States; law and public policy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bic Ngo Professor Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education and Human Development |
350A PeikH 612-625-7520 bcngo@umn.edu |
Culturally relevant pedagogy, urban and multicultural education, immigrant education |
| 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 |
| Juliana Hu Pegues Assistant Professor Department of American Indian Studies |
215 Scott Hall 612-624-8217 pegue002@umn.edu |
Asian American studies, native and indigenous studies, American studies, settler colonialism, women of color feminism, queer studies, social history, history of the US west, nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, postcolonial theory, social justice movements, performance, spoken word |
| 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 |
| Moin Syed Associate 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 |
| 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 |
| Martin F. Manalansan Associate Professor Department of American Studies |
72 Pleasant St SE Rm 104 612-624-4190 manal016@umn.edu |
Sexuality and gender, race and ethnicity, immigration and globalization, cities and modernity, affect, senses and embodiment, food and culture, science and technology studies, critical theory, Filipino global diaspora, Asian Americans, Southeast Asia, Philippines |