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Staff

Name	Contact
Teresa Toguchi Swartz Director, Asian American Studies	778 Social Sciences Building 612-626-1862 tswartz@umn.edu
Saymoukda D. Vongsay Community Outreach Coordinator	782 Social Sciences Building 612-625-4813 vong0018@umn.edu

Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialities
Vichet Chhuon Associate Professor of Culture and Teaching College of Education and 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 Associate Professor Department of Gender, Women, and 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 disaporas, 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 Assistant 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 Assistant 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 Assistant 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 U.S. west, nineteenth and twentieth century American literature, postcolonial theory, social justice movements, performance, spoken word
Elliott Powell Assistant 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 Assistant 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