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Asian American Studies

Division of Social Sciences,
Humanities and Social Sciences 5044;
Telephone (805) 893-8039
E-mail: cora@ucsb.edu
Website: www.asamst.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: erin Khuê Ninh


 
Faculty
Alexander Cho, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor (Digital media studies, human-centered design, Asian American media studies, critical race theory, queer studies)
Jigna Desai, Professor Joint Appointment: FEMST
Diane Fujino, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (Asian American activism studies, Afro-Asian solidarities, Third World racialism, Japanese American history, activist-scholarship, structural inequities of race, class and gender)
Erin Ninh, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (Asian American literature and cultural studies, women's literature, comparative ethnic literature, gender and family, sexual violence)
Sameer Pandya, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor (creative writing; Asian American literature; cultural studies; postcolonial literature and criticism; sports studies)
John Park, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (immigration law and policy, race theory, political theory and public law)
Lisa Park, PhD, Northwestern University, Professor (race, gender, migration, environmental justice, health care policy)
Elizabeth Rubio, Assistant Professor
Xiaojian Zhao, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (United States history, Asian American history, gender, and immigration)
Benjamin Zulueta, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Asian American history, history of science, science and technology studies)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Sucheng Chan, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: GLOBL

 
Affiliated Faculty
Rudy Busto, PhD (Religious Studies)
Debanuj DasGupta, PhD (Feminist Studies)
Kip Fulbeck, MFA (Art)
Pei-Te Lien, PhD (Political Science)
Swati Rana, PhD (English)
Paul Spickard, PhD (History)
Mayfair Yang, PhD (Religious Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)