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  • Contributors

Pawan Dhingra is associate professor of sociology at Oberlin College. He is the author of Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities (Stanford University Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book project on Indian American motel owners, primarily in Ohio.

Mimi Khúc is a PhD candidate in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include Asian American studies, New Age spirituality, Buddhism in the U.S., and women of color. She is currently writing a dissertation on second-generation Vietnamese Americans, race, and religion.

Erika Lee is associate professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her most recent book, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America, (co-authored with Judy Yung,) is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2010.

Josephine Lee is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota and director of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation Asian American Studies Consortium. Her publications include Performing Asian America and The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado (forthcoming, University of Minnesota Press).

Andrea Louie is associate professor of anthropology and Director of the Asian Pacific American Studies program at Michigan State University. She is the author of “Chineseness Across Borders: Re-negotiating Chinese Identities in China and the U.S. (Duke University Press, 2004), and is currently working on a book manuscript on Chinese adoption.

Mary Ting Yi Lui is associate professor of history and American studies and the author of the award-winning The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, [End Page 379] and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). She is working on the history of Asian Americans in U.S. Cold War cultural diplomacy.

Pyong Gap Min is professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The areas of his research interest are immigration, ethnic identity, ethnic business, religion, and family/gender, with a special focus on Asian/Korean Americans. He is the author of five books, all focusing on Korean immigrants’ experiences. They include Caught in the Middle: Korean Communities in New York and Los Angeles (University of California Press, 1996), the winner of two national book awards.

Emily Roxworthy is assistant professor of theatre history at the University of California, San Diego, where she is also affiliate faculty in Ethnic Studies and California Cultures in Comparative Perspective. She is the author of The Spectacle of Japanese American Trauma: Racial Performativity and World War II (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008).

Yuan Shu is associate professor of English at Texas Tech University. He teaches contemporary American literature with an emphasis on postmodern American fiction, Vietnam War literature, and Asian American studies. He has published articles in journals such as Cultural Critique and College Literature, and is finishing his book manuscript. [End Page 380]

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