Contributors
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Kenyon S. Chan is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University. His research focuses on social science perspectives in ethnic studies, social policy studies, and interdisciplinary analyses of race in America. He is a former president of the Association for Asian American Studies.
Shilpa Davé is currently a visiting assistant professor in Asian American studies and the English department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her areas of research include Asian American literature, South Asian American women writers, Asian American studies, multicultural literature, popular culture, and postcolonial literature. She is currently working on projects focusing on travel narratives in Asian American literature and representations of Asian Americans in the mass media.
Pawan Dhingra is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Cornell University. His dissertation focuses comparatively on second-generation, professional Indian and Korean Americans. Other research includes Asian American intermarriage, the relationship between theories of ethnic competition, assimilation, and racialization for Asian Americans, and cultural hybridity of second-generation Indian British.
Shirley Hune is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Graduate Division, and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Nancy I. Kim has an MA is Asian American studies and is the director of the Asian/Pacific Islander Resource Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Elaine W. Kuo is a doctoral student in Higher Educational and Organizational Change at UCLA. She is interested in student development, identity formation, leadership development, gender, and minority issues. Her current research addresses how the college experience shapes APA students’ orientation to social responsibility.
Sunaina Maira teaches and coordinates Asian American studies at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, and has done research on second-generation youth culture, transnational communities, and issues of gender and sexuality. She is one of the organizers of Youth Solidarity Summer, a program for activist youth, and of Diasporadics, a festival of arts and activism in South Asian communities. She is the co-editor of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America.
Partha Mazumdar is a doctoral student in the American studies department at the University of Kansas. He is currently completing a dissertation focusing on the communities formed by South Asian American motel owners.
Phil Tajitsu Nash teaches in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, writes a weekly political affairs column for www.asianweek.com, and creates web sites for non-profit groups and political candidates at www.campaignadvantage.com.
Lavina D. Shankar is the co-editor of A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America. Her selected publications include essays in Postcolonial Theory and the U.S., Teaching What You’re Not, Multiculturalism and Representations, and Critical Mass. She is collecting oral narratives of pre-1950 South Asian American immigrants. She teaches Asian American and postcolonial literatures at Bates College in Maine.
Jaideep Singh is a doctoral candidate in comparative ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation focuses on illuminating three instances of contemporary political organizing by Sikh communities in the U.S. In addition, he is working on a documentary excavating the lost history of Sikhs in World War II.
Rajini Srikanth teaches in the English department and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Massachussetts, Boston. She is co-editor of A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America and of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America. Her publications and research interests include South Asian American political participation, diaspora studies, pedagogy, and multiethnic American literature.
Jennifer A. Yee is a doctoral student in Higher Educational and Organizational Change at UCLA. Her dissertation looks at the effect of mentoring on the development of APA community activists. Her other interests include moral development, policy issues, leadership, creativity, and consciousness.
