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  • Contributors

Kelly H. Chong is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea (Harvard University Press, 2008), a winner of two Distinguished Book Awards. She is the co-author of a special issue of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2013), “Comparing Religions: Theory and Empirical Analysis.” She has also authored numerous book and journal articles; her articles have appeared in Gender and Society, Qualitative Sociology, Sociology of Religion, and Journal of Women’s History. Her current research is on the topic intermarriage among Asian Americans, and the issue of negotiation of ethnic subjectivities/identities at the intersection of gender, class, and nation.

Sarah Dowling is the author of essays that have appeared or are forthcoming in GLQ, Canadian Literature, Signs, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. She is the author of two books of poetry, and teaches at the University of Washington Bothell.

Ryan H. Fukumori is a Ph.D. student in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He is currently researching and writing his dissertation on the history of ethnic/racial studies in Los Angeles and the academic institutionality of Japanese and Mexican Americans.

Soo Ah Kwon is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Uncivil Youth: Activism and Affirmative Governmentality published with Duke University Press.

Paul McCutcheon is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Transnational Studies at the University at Buffalo.

Shalini Shankar is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is a linguistic and sociocultural [End Page 233] anthropologist whose interests include media, discourse, race/ ethnicity, and Asian diasporas. Her ethnographic research focuses on youth, advertising, cultural production, and language use, and is showcased in her books Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Silicon Valley (Duke University Press, 2008) and Copywriting Race: Creating Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Asian American Advertising (Duke University Press, under contract), and in articles in American Ethnologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Journal of Material Culture, and South Asian Popular Culture.

Harrod J. Suarez is assistant professor of English at Oberlin College. [End Page 234]

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