The Transnational Politics of Asian Americans

About the Contributors

About the Contributors Eiichiro Azuma is an associate professor of history, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Between Two Empires (2005) and co-editor of Yuji Ichioka’s essay collection Before Internment: Essays in Prewar Japanese American History (2006). Christian Collet is an associate professor of politics and international relations at International Christian University, Tokyo. Augusto Espiritu is an associate professor of history, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals (2005). Hiroko Furuya is a consulting specialist with the Gallup Organization, Tokyo. She is the author of Vietnamese in the U.S. and Policy Change in Vietnam (2008). Peter Kiang is a professor of education and director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Ikumi Koakutsu is a student in the master’s program in American studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto. Michel S. Laguerre is a professor and director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, most recently Diaspora, Politics, and Globalization 224 / Contributors (2006) and Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London and Berlin (2008). Pei-te Lien is a professor of political science affiliated with Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her book The Making of Asian America through Political Participation (Temple, 2001) received the 2002 Best Book Award on Political Participation, Voting, Elections, and Political Behavior from the American Political Science Association’s Division on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. She is also the co-author of The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community (2004). Sangay Mishra is a doctoral candidate in political science at University of Southern California. Hiromi Monobe is an assistant professor in the Institute for Language and Culture at Doshisha University, Kyoto. Don T. Nakanishi is a professor and director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. One of the founders of Amerasia Journal, he is the author or co-author of several works, including Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy (2003) and the National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac (2007). Shirley Tang is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Tritia Toyota is an adjunct assistant professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging (forthcoming). Janelle Wong is an associate professor of political science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Democracy’s Promise (2006) and coauthor of The Politics of Asian Americans: Diversity and Community (2004). ...