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  • Contributors

Catherine Ceniza Choy is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In Spring 2005, she was the Edith Kreeger Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor at Northwestern University. She is the author of Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003) and is at work on a book project on the history of Asian international adoption.

Shilpa Davé is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Brandeis University. She is co-editor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (NYU Press, 2005) and is currently working on a book entitled Privileged Minorities: South Asian Ethic Citizenship and American Popular Culture.

Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History and the Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. An internationally recognized scholar and winner of numerous honors and awards, Hu-DeHart has written two monographs, edited one volume, and published over forty articles in both English and Spanish. Her current research project examines the Asian diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Erika Lee is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she has been a McKnight Land-Grant Professor and a McKnight Presidential Fellow. She is the author of At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1943. Her current project is a transnational and comparative history of Asian immigration and exclusion in the Americas.

Naoko Shibusawa is Assistant Professor of History at Brown University, where she teaches U.S. foreign relations. She received her Ph.D. at Northwestern University and taught at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa for four years. Her book, America’s Geisha Ally: Refiguring the Japanese Enemy, 1945–1964, will be published by Harvard University Press in 2006.

Ji-Yeon Yuh is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University. She is the author of Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (NYU Press, 2002), and is currently working on a history of Korean diaspora in China, Japan, and the United States.

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