Contributors
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Floyd Cheung is Associate Professor of English and of American Studies at Smith College. He is the editor of the Works of H. T. Tsiang (Ironweed Press, forthcoming), and, with Keith Lawrence, he co-edited Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature (Temple University Press, 2005). His essays have appeared in TDR: The Performance Studies Journal, Studies in Travel Writing, The Journal of American Culture, CR: The New Centennial Review, Jouvert, and others.
M. Cristina Garcia is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Administration in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. Her interests are in civic participation in Latino communities, quantitative methods and mathematical modeling.
Pensri Ho is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her current book project examines the intersections of socio-economic class, race, and transnationalism of non-immigrant Asian American professionals.
Sämi Ludwig is Professeur des Universités at the UHA Mulhouse in the Alsace (France). He received his education at the University of Berne (Switzerland). In his Ph.D. thesis on intercultural communication in Maxine Hong Kingston and Ishmael Reed, called CONCRETE LANGUAGE (published by Peter Lang in 1996), he outlines a theory of the metaphorical tracing of the intention constructions of the other. His second book is on the convergences of American Realism and pragmatist theory: Cognitive Realism: The Pragmatist Paradigm in American Literary Realism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002). Together with Rocio Davis (Pamplona, Spain) he edits the only European book series on Asian American cultural studies (LIT Verlag, Germany). In addition to intercultural issues and questions of cognitive and pragmatist approaches to literature, he is also interested in early American drama and occasionally writes on poetry. [End Page 329]
LeiLani Nishime is Associate Professor of American Multicultural Studies at Sonoma State University. She is the co-editor of East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture (NYU Press) and her articles on multiracial representations and visual culture can be found in Cinema Journal and the forthcoming collection Mixed Race Hollywood (NYU Press, 2008).
Richard A. Sundeen is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and Development at the University of Southern California where he is also the director of undergraduate programs. His research has focused on volunteers, including teenagers, high school community service programs, coproduction, volunteers to religious organizations, barriers to volunteering, and volunteering among ethnic and cultural groups.
Amar Wahab is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University. His research and teaching are situated in postcolonial studies, with an emphasis on Indians and the cultural politics of identity in the Caribbean. Other areas of interest include transnational and diaspora studies, critical race studies and Asian American studies.
Lili Wang is a postdoctoral research associate at the Taubman Center for Public Policy of Brown University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 2007. Her research has focused on charitable behavior, social capital, and public policy.
Cynthia Young is Associate Professor of English and Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Boston College. She is the author of Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left (Duke University Press, 2006). Her current book project considers shifts in racial meaning and blackness since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington D.C.” [End Page 330]
