Contributors
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Sophia Rose Arjana is Associate Professor of Religious Studies in the Potter College of Arts & Letters at Western Kentucky University. She is the author of three books including Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism and Popular Culture (2017). Her fourth book, Buying Buddha, Selling Rumi: Orientalism in the Mystical Marketplace (2019) explores the dynamics of the business of mysticism as it relates to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. She recently conducted fieldwork for her fifth book, which will focus on gender, material religion, and sacred space in Indonesia.
Keva X. Bui is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego with a graduate certificate in Critical Gender Studies. Their research lies at the nexus of Asian/American studies, queer and feminist science studies, and US militarism. Keva also currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Asian American Studies.
Meredith Oda is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her first book, The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco (2018), was a transpacific urban history of San Francisco. She also has articles in Diplomatic History and the Pacific Historical Review. Currently she is working on a book on alienage and Japanese American resettlement from World War II incarceration camps until the 1952 Walter-McCarran Immigration and Nationality Act.
Loubna Qutami is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Qutami is a founder of the transnational Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and a former Executive Director for the Arab Cultural and Community Center (ACCC) in San Francisco.
Swati Rana is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work bridges comparative ethnic studies and literary formalism. She is author of the forthcoming book, Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream, and her research has been published in American Literary History and American Literature.
Jeanette Roan is Associate Professor in the Visual Studies Program and the Graduate Program in Visual and Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. She is the author of Envisioning Asia: On Location, Travel, and the Cinematic Geography of U.S. Orientalism (2010).
K. Ian Shin is Assistant Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan, where he is also core faculty in the Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies program. He is currently completing his book, Imperfect Knowledge: Chinese Art and American Power in the Transpacific Progressive Era.
Ly Thi Hai Tran holds a position as a lecturer of English at Banking Academy of Vietnam. She received a master’s degree in American studies from Heidelberg University, Germany and is currently a doctoral candidate in American culture studies at Bowling Green State University. Her research focuses on gender, migration, globalization, and the Vietnamese experience in the United States. One of her papers received a Top Paper Award for Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies at the 2018 National Communication Association Convention.
Jonathan van Harmelen is a doctoral student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in the history of Japanese American incarceration. He completed his undergraduate studies at Pomona College and master’s at Georgetown University and worked at the National Museum of American History from 2015 to 2018.
