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Christine Bacareza Balance is currently a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Music department at UC Riverside. She received her PhD in Performance Studies from New York University in 2007 with a dissertation entitled, “Intimate Acts, Martial Cultures: Performance and Belonging in Filipino America,” and is an alumna of UC Berkeley’s Ethnic Studies department. Dr. Balance’s work has been published in Women & Performance: a feminist journal; the Asian American Writer’s Workshop’s TEN magazine; and the recently released anthology, Stage Presence: Conversations with Filipino American Performing Artists (ed. Theo Gonzalves, Meritage Press). She is currently working on a book manuscript that looks at the types of aesthetic practices that are developed by Filipino Americans at the crossroads of violence, intimacy, and belonging as well as a second project which looks at cultural forms (music theatre pieces, independent films, and solo performances) produced through and by way of two notorious figures: Andrew Cunanan and Imelda Marcos.

Victor Bascara is an associate professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (on leave 2007–8), and an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Model Minority Imperialism (2006).

Amy L. Brandzel is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Women Studies at the University of New Mexico. Her work examines queer, feminist, critical race and postcolonial theories of history, law, citizenship and knowledge production. She has published on normativities and citizenship as deployed in same-sex marriage law in GLQ, and is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Queering the Subject(s) of Citizenship: Beyond the Normative Citizen in Law and History. Queering the Subject(s) is an interdisciplinary, comparative analysis of how critically progressive contestations to the norms of citizenship often require the employment of subjugated identity categories and, moreover, anti-intersectional strategies. [End Page 125]

Sylvia Shin Huey Chong is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She has previously published on violence and the media in Cinema Journal and the anthology New Hollywood Violence. Her current book project is entitled The Oriental Obscene: American Film Violence and Racial Phantasmatics in the Vietnam Era.

Jigna Desai is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Asian American, postcolonial, queer, and feminist diasporic cultural and cinema studies. Her book Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film analyzes the complex relationships between diaspora and nation in the current moment of globalization through contestations over gender and sexuality in South Asian transnational public cultures in the United States, Canada, Britain, and South Asia. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled Bollywood, USA: Global Indian Cinema in Asian America.

Elaine Howard Ecklund is an assistant professor in the Sociology Department at University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research focuses on changes to the institutions of American civil society as a result of increasing racial, ethnic, and religious diversity. Her current project (with Michael Emerson), “Religion and the Changing Face of American Civic Life,” is funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation. Ecklund’s articles have appeared in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Asian American Studies, Annual Review of Sociology, Sociological Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Review of Religious Research, and Social Problems. Her first book, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life, was published by Oxford University Press in 2006.

Haiming Liu is a professor of Asian American Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has authored The Transnational History of a Chinese Family: Immigrant Letters, Family Business, and Reverse Migration by Rutgers University Press in 2005 and has published journal articles or book chapters on Chinese American family life, the social origins of Chinese migration, Chinese herbal medicine, trans-nationalism and Chinese American historiography, and the identity of American-born Chinese in the 1930s.

Min Hyoung Song is an associate professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992...

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