Staff and Faculty

Staff 

Name

Contact

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

N218 Elliot Hall

 

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
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
Martin F. Manalansan
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
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
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

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. 
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

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