Scholarly Contact:
Andrew Aoki, Professor
Department of Political Science
Augsburg College
aoki@augsburg.edu
http://web.augsburg.edu/~aoki/index.html
Asian American politics; Immigration; Popular culture and politics
Tsung Chi, Professor of Politics
Chair of Asian Studies
Occidental College
tsung@oxy.edu
http://college.oxy.edu/politics/tsung-chi/
Asian American politics, comparative politics, East Asian politics, Chinese/Taiwanese politics, US-China-Taiwan relations, and research methods
Michelle L. Chin, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Political Science
Arizona State University
Congress, congressional decision making, interest groups, public policy
Sumi Cho, J.D., Ph.D.
College of Law
DePaul University
scho@depaul.edu
http://www.law.depaul.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_information.asp?id=25
Asian Americans and legal jurisprudence (affirmative action, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, immigration/environment, internment)
Wendy K. Tam Cho
Professor
Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
wendycho@illinois.edu
http://www.pol.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?wendycho
Methodology, racial and ethnic politics, elections, political behavior, state and local politics
Erin Aeran Chung
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program
Johns Hopkins University
echung@jhu.edu
Japanese and Korean politics, comparative citizenship, immigration, and racial politics, civil society.
Christian Collet, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Politics and International Relations
International Christian University
http://www.christiancollet.com/
Founder, Pacific Opinions Public opinion, political participation, Asian Americans in California, Vietnamese Americans
Carrie Liu Currier , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director of Asian Studies
Texas Christian University
c.currier@tcu.edu
http://faculty.tcu.edu/ccurrier/
Chinese politics (the impacts of economic reform on women, domestic/foreign policy, energy policy), Gender & Politics (labor issues and the sex industry), and IPE
Robert Dhondrup
Los Angeles Unified School District and California State University, Los Angeles
Ethnic and urban history; Asian Pacific American labor
Yen Le Espiritu, Ph.D.
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Asian American identities, gender, race relations.
President, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
http://sociology.ucsd.edu/faculty/bio/esperitu.shtml
Nikhar Gaikwad, Graduate Student
Yale University
nikhar.gaikwad@yale.edu
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ng245/Welcome.html
Political economy of development and business-state relations
Kim Geron, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
California State University, East Bay
kim.geron@csueastbay.edu
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/posc/geronkim.html
His research interests include race and ethnic politics, the labor movement, social movements, and immigration policy. He is currently conducting research on Asian Pacific American, and Labor and Community based Urban Politics.
Hahrie Han, Ph.D.
Sidney R. Knafel Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Wellesley College
hhan@wellesley.edu
http://web.wellesley.edu/web/faculty.psml?rcFilePath=/content/departments/politicalscience/profiles/hanh.xml
Political participation, Inequality, political organizing, civic engagement, civic organizations, congressional elections.
Cindy D. Kam
Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
cindy.d.kam@vanderbilt.edu
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/cindy-kam
Public opinion, political psychology, and political participation.
Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.
Asian American Studies/Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
cjkim@uci.edu
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2453
Black-Korean conflict, social movements, Asian American politics, Black politics, the social construction of race and political parties
Thomas P. Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College
thomas.kim@scrippscollege.edu
http://scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-kim.php
Asian American politics, African American politics, electoral politics and political parties
Liane Kosaki, Ph.D.
Office of Academic Affairs
University of Wisconsin, Madison
lkosaki@polisci.wisc.edu
Race and gender politics, political theory, public law
Taeku Lee, Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
taekulee@berkeley.edu
http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=256
James S. Lai, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and Ethnic Studies
Santa Clara University
jlai@scu.edu
http://www.scu.edu/cas/polisci/jameslai.cfm
Dr. Lai's research interests and specialties include U.S. racial and ethnic politics, Asian American politics, urban politics, community studies, and California state and local politics. In 2011, Dr. Lai published his book, Asian American Political Action: Suburban Transformations (Lynne Rienner Publishers), which examines the demographic shifts and the rise of Asian American political incorporation in small to medium size suburbs throughout the continental United States.
Pei-te Lien, Ph.D., Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
plien@polsci.ucsb.edu
http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/people/academic/pei-te-lien
American Politics, Identity, Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Ann Chih Lin, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
annlin@umich.edu
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.linannchih_ci.detail
Qualitative Research Methods, Gender and Politics, Race and Ethnicity
Eric Mar
San Francisco State University also Commissioner, San Francisco Board of Educatione
icmar@att.net
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/
Asian American politics; education policy; social change and community development; immigration policy; civil rights law; Asian American movement history.
Natalie Masuoka
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Tufts University
Natalie.Masuoka@tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty/masuoka/
Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion and Political Pscyhology
Don Nakanishi, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles
dtn@ucla.edu
http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/people/dnakanishi.asp
Asian American politics; international dimensions of minority politics.
Alan Nishio, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President
California State University, Long Beach
Asian Pacific Americans and public policy issues.
Ngoc Phan, Ph.D. Candidate
Rice University
np1@rice.edu
http://np1.web.rice.edu
Political behavior, political psychology, race and ethnicity, and experimental methods.
Paul Ong, Ph.D.
Asian American Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles
pmong@ucla.edu
http://www.harrt.ucla.edu/faculty/bios/ong.html
H.L.T Quan, Ph.D.
Asst Prof, Justice & Social Inquiry
School of Social Transform
Arizona State University
h.q@asu.eduhttps://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/826291
Globalization, Third World development, radical thought, urban resistance (race, gender, and global cities)
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside
karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu
http://www.politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/
Political Participation and Ethnic Mobilization among Asian Americans and Latinos
Kathy H. Rim
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
Racial and Ethnic Politics, Minority Political Behavior, Asian American Politics, Immigrant Political Incorporation
Larry Hajime Shinagawa, Ph.D
Associate Professor and Director of Asian American Studies
University of Maryland
lshinaga@umd.edu
http://amst.umd.edu/People/shinagawa.htm
Asian Pacific American political attitudes.
Jaideep Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies
California State University, East Bay
Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
jaideep.singh@csueastbay.edu
http://class.csueastbay.edu/ethnicstudies/Jaideep_Singh.htm
Asian American national and grass roots politics, American racial politics, South Asian American politics, Co-founder of Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Oki Takeda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
otakeda@sipeb.aoyama.ac.jp
http://blog.sipec-square.net/research-performance/o-takeda/index_e.html
Asian American politics (general), Asian American representation in legislatures, Asian American Studies (curriculum development), Asian American college students' identities, Roles of Japanese Americans in U.S.-Japanese relations
Janelle Wong, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Associate Professor
Institute of Public Service
wongja@seattleu.edu
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/mpa/Inner.aspx?id=75314
Research interests include race, ethnicity and politics; political participation, political mobilization and public opinion research. Her current research focuses on religion and immigration. Author of the book "Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions"
Frank Wu, J.D.
Clinical Law Center
Howard University Law School
wuf@uchastings.edu
http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/wu/index.html
Asian Americans and affirmative action, immigration reform, public policy
Huso Yi
Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Health Studies
New York University
husoyi@cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk/cms/content/view/431/56/lang,en/
East Asian gay identities, Sexual Rights and Health, Cross-cultural research on sexuality.
Joseph Eugene Yi
Department of Political Science
Public Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
joyichicago@yahoo.com
https://sites.google.com/site/josephyiphd/Home
Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Political Thought, Public Administration, USA and East Asia. Bridging differences in diversifying societies.
Zhiqun Zhu
MacArthur Chair in East Asian Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Bucknell University
zhiqun.zhu@bucknell.edu
http://www.bucknell.edu/x43965.xml
US-Asian relations; political and economic activities of Asian immigrants in the United States.
Department of Political Science
Augsburg College
aoki@augsburg.edu
http://web.augsburg.edu/~aoki/index.html
Asian American politics; Immigration; Popular culture and politics
Tsung Chi, Professor of Politics
Chair of Asian Studies
Occidental College
tsung@oxy.edu
http://college.oxy.edu/politics/tsung-chi/
Asian American politics, comparative politics, East Asian politics, Chinese/Taiwanese politics, US-China-Taiwan relations, and research methods
Michelle L. Chin, PhD
Assistant Professor Department of Political Science
Arizona State University
Congress, congressional decision making, interest groups, public policy
Sumi Cho, J.D., Ph.D.
College of Law
DePaul University
scho@depaul.edu
http://www.law.depaul.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_information.asp?id=25
Asian Americans and legal jurisprudence (affirmative action, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, immigration/environment, internment)
Wendy K. Tam Cho
Professor
Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
wendycho@illinois.edu
http://www.pol.illinois.edu/people/profile.asp?wendycho
Methodology, racial and ethnic politics, elections, political behavior, state and local politics
Erin Aeran Chung
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship Program
Johns Hopkins University
echung@jhu.edu
Japanese and Korean politics, comparative citizenship, immigration, and racial politics, civil society.
Christian Collet, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Politics and International Relations
International Christian University
http://www.christiancollet.com/
Founder, Pacific Opinions Public opinion, political participation, Asian Americans in California, Vietnamese Americans
Carrie Liu Currier , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director of Asian Studies
Texas Christian University
c.currier@tcu.edu
http://faculty.tcu.edu/ccurrier/
Chinese politics (the impacts of economic reform on women, domestic/foreign policy, energy policy), Gender & Politics (labor issues and the sex industry), and IPE
Robert Dhondrup
Los Angeles Unified School District and California State University, Los Angeles
Ethnic and urban history; Asian Pacific American labor
Yen Le Espiritu, Ph.D.
Department of Ethnic Studies
University of California, San Diego
Asian American identities, gender, race relations.
President, Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
http://sociology.ucsd.edu/faculty/bio/esperitu.shtml
Nikhar Gaikwad, Graduate Student
Yale University
nikhar.gaikwad@yale.edu
http://pantheon.yale.edu/~ng245/Welcome.html
Political economy of development and business-state relations
Kim Geron, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
California State University, East Bay
kim.geron@csueastbay.edu
http://www20.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/posc/geronkim.html
His research interests include race and ethnic politics, the labor movement, social movements, and immigration policy. He is currently conducting research on Asian Pacific American, and Labor and Community based Urban Politics.
Hahrie Han, Ph.D.
Sidney R. Knafel Assistant Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
Wellesley College
hhan@wellesley.edu
http://web.wellesley.edu/web/faculty.psml?rcFilePath=/content/departments/politicalscience/profiles/hanh.xml
Political participation, Inequality, political organizing, civic engagement, civic organizations, congressional elections.
Cindy D. Kam
Department of Political Science
Vanderbilt University
cindy.d.kam@vanderbilt.edu
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/political-science/bio/cindy-kam
Public opinion, political psychology, and political participation.
Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.
Asian American Studies/Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
cjkim@uci.edu
http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2453
Black-Korean conflict, social movements, Asian American politics, Black politics, the social construction of race and political parties
Thomas P. Kim, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Politics & International Relations Scripps College
thomas.kim@scrippscollege.edu
http://scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/thomas-kim.php
Asian American politics, African American politics, electoral politics and political parties
Liane Kosaki, Ph.D.
Office of Academic Affairs
University of Wisconsin, Madison
lkosaki@polisci.wisc.edu
Race and gender politics, political theory, public law
Taeku Lee, Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
taekulee@berkeley.edu
http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=256
James S. Lai, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science and Ethnic Studies
Santa Clara University
jlai@scu.edu
http://www.scu.edu/cas/polisci/jameslai.cfm
Dr. Lai's research interests and specialties include U.S. racial and ethnic politics, Asian American politics, urban politics, community studies, and California state and local politics. In 2011, Dr. Lai published his book, Asian American Political Action: Suburban Transformations (Lynne Rienner Publishers), which examines the demographic shifts and the rise of Asian American political incorporation in small to medium size suburbs throughout the continental United States.
Pei-te Lien, Ph.D., Professor and Graduate Advisor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
plien@polsci.ucsb.edu
http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/people/academic/pei-te-lien
American Politics, Identity, Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Ann Chih Lin, Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
annlin@umich.edu
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/polisci/people/faculty/ci.linannchih_ci.detail
Qualitative Research Methods, Gender and Politics, Race and Ethnicity
Eric Mar
San Francisco State University also Commissioner, San Francisco Board of Educatione
icmar@att.net
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~ericmar/
Asian American politics; education policy; social change and community development; immigration policy; civil rights law; Asian American movement history.
Natalie Masuoka
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Tufts University
Natalie.Masuoka@tufts.edu
http://ase.tufts.edu/polsci/faculty/masuoka/
Racial and Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Public Opinion and Political Pscyhology
Don Nakanishi, Ph.D.
Director, Asian American Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles
dtn@ucla.edu
http://www.aasc.ucla.edu/people/dnakanishi.asp
Asian American politics; international dimensions of minority politics.
Alan Nishio, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President
California State University, Long Beach
Asian Pacific Americans and public policy issues.
Ngoc Phan, Ph.D. Candidate
Rice University
np1@rice.edu
http://np1.web.rice.edu
Political behavior, political psychology, race and ethnicity, and experimental methods.
Paul Ong, Ph.D.
Asian American Studies Center
University of California, Los Angeles
pmong@ucla.edu
http://www.harrt.ucla.edu/faculty/bios/ong.html
H.L.T Quan, Ph.D.
Asst Prof, Justice & Social Inquiry
School of Social Transform
Arizona State University
h.q@asu.eduhttps://webapp4.asu.edu/directory/person/826291
Globalization, Third World development, radical thought, urban resistance (race, gender, and global cities)
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside
karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu
http://www.politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/
Political Participation and Ethnic Mobilization among Asian Americans and Latinos
Kathy H. Rim
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of California, Irvine
Racial and Ethnic Politics, Minority Political Behavior, Asian American Politics, Immigrant Political Incorporation
Larry Hajime Shinagawa, Ph.D
Associate Professor and Director of Asian American Studies
University of Maryland
lshinaga@umd.edu
http://amst.umd.edu/People/shinagawa.htm
Asian Pacific American political attitudes.
Jaideep Singh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Ethnic Studies
California State University, East Bay
Ranjit Singh Sabharwal Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies
jaideep.singh@csueastbay.edu
http://class.csueastbay.edu/ethnicstudies/Jaideep_Singh.htm
Asian American national and grass roots politics, American racial politics, South Asian American politics, Co-founder of Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
Oki Takeda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
otakeda@sipeb.aoyama.ac.jp
http://blog.sipec-square.net/research-performance/o-takeda/index_e.html
Asian American politics (general), Asian American representation in legislatures, Asian American Studies (curriculum development), Asian American college students' identities, Roles of Japanese Americans in U.S.-Japanese relations
Janelle Wong, Ph.D.
Executive Director and Associate Professor
Institute of Public Service
wongja@seattleu.edu
http://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/mpa/Inner.aspx?id=75314
Research interests include race, ethnicity and politics; political participation, political mobilization and public opinion research. Her current research focuses on religion and immigration. Author of the book "Democracy's Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions"
Frank Wu, J.D.
Clinical Law Center
Howard University Law School
wuf@uchastings.edu
http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/wu/index.html
Asian Americans and affirmative action, immigration reform, public policy
Huso Yi
Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Health Studies
New York University
husoyi@cuhk.edu.hk
http://www.sphpc.cuhk.edu.hk/cms/content/view/431/56/lang,en/
East Asian gay identities, Sexual Rights and Health, Cross-cultural research on sexuality.
Joseph Eugene Yi
Department of Political Science
Public Administration, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
joyichicago@yahoo.com
https://sites.google.com/site/josephyiphd/Home
Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Political Thought, Public Administration, USA and East Asia. Bridging differences in diversifying societies.
Zhiqun Zhu
MacArthur Chair in East Asian Politics
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations
Bucknell University
zhiqun.zhu@bucknell.edu
http://www.bucknell.edu/x43965.xml
US-Asian relations; political and economic activities of Asian immigrants in the United States.
