ASAM Steering Committee and Minor Advisor

Eiichiro Azuma Associate Professor, History and Asian American Studies Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (History). 2000 Telephone Number: 215-898-6698 Email: eazuma@history.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/azuma.html Office: 308B College Hall/6303

Grace Kao Director Asian American Studies Program, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Sociology). 1997 Telephone Number: 215-898-9060 Email: grace2@pop.upenn.edu Homepage: http://gracekao.231.googlepages.com/research Office: 231 McNeil Building/6299

Fariha Khan Program Administrator Ph.D. Candidate. University of Pennsylvania (Folklore). 2007 (Expected) Telephone Number: 215-898-1782 Email: fariha@sas.upenn.edu Office: 166 McNeil

Josephine Park Assistant Professor, English and Asian American Studies Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Comparative Literature). 2003 Telephone Number: 215-898-7382 Email: jnpark3@english.upenn.edu Office: 305 Bennett Hall

Faculty List

Eiichiro Azuma Associate Professor, History and Asian American Studies Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (History). 2000 Eiichiro Azuma is Associate Professor of Asian American History at the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Penn faculty in January 2001 after working as a curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles since 1992. He specialized in modern Japanese history, immigration, U.S.-Japan relations, and the history of Asians in the United States. He holds a MA in Asian American Studies (1992) and a Ph.D. in history (2000), both from University of California at Los Angeles. Telephone Number: 215-898-6698 Email: eazuma@history.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/azuma.html Office: 308B College Hall/6303

David L. Eng Professor of English Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley. (Comparative Literature) David L. Eng, Professor of English, received his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.A. in English from Columbia University. His areas of specialization include American literature, Asian American studies, Asian diaspora, psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer studies, and visual culture. He is author of The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Diasporas and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke, forthcoming) and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke, 2001). In addition, he is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California, 2003), with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple, 1998), and with Judith Halberstam and Jose Muñoz of a special issue of the journal Social Text (2005), “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” He is currently at work on two new projects, a study of neoliberalism and desire in Chinese cinema and an analysis of political and psychic reparation. Telephone Number: 6-3763 Email: deng@english.upenn.edu

Grace Kao Director Asian American Studies Program, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies Ph.D. The University of Chicago (Sociology). 1997 Grace Kao received her Ph.D. in sociology from The University of Chicago in 1997, A.M. in sociology from The University of Chicago in 1992, and A.B. in sociology (highest honors) and Oriental Languages (Chinese Literature) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. She works on race, ethnic, and immigrant differences in educational outcomes among youth in the United States. She has also published numerous papers on interracial friendship and romantic relationships among adolescents. She holds a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education and is research associate of the Population Studies Center and is an affiliate of the Center for East Asian Studies. She currently serves on the editorial boards of Social Science Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Social Science Research. Telephone Number: 215-898-9060 Email: grace2@pop.upenn.edu Homepage: http://gracekao.231.googlepages.com/research Office: 231 McNeil Building/6299

Josephine Park Assistant Professor, English and Asian American Studies Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Comparative Literature). 2003 Josephine Park received her BA from Amherst College and her PhD from UC Berkeley. She specializes in twentieth-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on Asian American literature. She is currently working on a study that uncovers the modernist roots of avant-garde Asian American poetry, and her research tracks American fascination with the Far East in poetry from the modernist era to the present. Her teaching interests include poetry and poetics, modernism, minority literature, theories of subject formation, and issues of immigration and transnationalism. Telephone Number: 215-898-7382 Email: jnpark3@english.upenn.edu Office: 305 Bennett Hall

Adjunct Faculty

June Chu Director, Pan-Asian American Community House Ph.D. University of California, Davis (Social/Cultural Psychology). 2003 Dr. Chu's research focuses on the mental well-being of Asian American populations. She also holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Bryn Mawr College, a masters degree in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and a masters degree in Social Psychology from the University of CA, Davis. June is also the Director of the Pan-Asian American Community House, Penn’s Cultural Resource Center which serves to advise students interested in the Asian American diaspora. June is also a certified personal trainer, group exercise and spinning instructor who teaches at Pottruck Gym on campus. Email: jychu@pobox.upenn.edu Office: 3601 Locust Walk, ARCH Building

Surendra Gambhir Senior Lecturer, South Asia Studies Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania His research interests are in the area of sociolinguistics has been in countries with substantial population of Indian origin - Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname (all in the Caribbean Sea area), Mauritius (Indian Ocean) and Fiji (Pacific Ocean). He is proficient in Hindi, Sanskrit, Bhojpuri, Urdu, German, and French. Telephone Number: 215-898-8438 Email: sgambhir@sas.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.southasia.upenn.edu/home/bios/bio_GambhirS.html Office: 8th Floor, Williams.

Srilata Gangulee Ph.D. New York University (Economics). Srilata Gangulee is an Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her interests focus on the economic impact of transnational Asian professionals. Email: gangulee@sas.upenn.edu

Sonya Gwak Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Education), 2006. Sonya Gwak received her BA, MSEd, and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation "Be(com)ing Korean in the United States: Exploring Ethnic Identity Formation through Cultural Practices" investigates the intersections of ethnic identity formation as a pedgogical experience. She is currently the Associate Director for Student Affairs and Academic Advising, School of Engineering and Applied Science at Penn. Telephone Number: 215.573.8369 Email: sgwak@seas.upenn.edu Office: 111 Towne Building

Lili Hsieh Ph.D. Duke University (English Literature). 2005 Lili Hsieh is the Mellon Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Email: hsiehli@english.upenn.edu Homepage: http://www.english.upenn.edu/People/Faculty/profile.php?pennkey=hsiehli Office: 319 Fisher-Bennett Hall

Fariha Khan Program Administrator Ph.D. Candidate. University of Pennsylvania (Folklore). 2007 (Expected) Fariha Khan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Folklore at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Yale University. Her dissertation, "Being South Asian Muslim: Ethnic Identity in the Time of Terror", examines the creation and maintenance of an ethnic identity for a community in Philadelphia as they struggle to maintain an ethnic, religious, and cultural heritage. Her research interests include South Asians in the U.S., ethnicity, Muslim Americans, and memory studies. Telephone Number: 215-898-1782 Email: fariha@sas.upenn.edu Office: 166 McNeil

Sheetal Majithia Post-Doctoral Fellow, South Asia Studies Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Cornell University

Kalpen Modi (aka Kal Penn) Adjunct Lecturer B.A. UCLA (Sociology). 2000. Graduate Certificate in International Security, Stanford University (in progress). A native of Montclair, N.J., Penn received his B.A. in sociology with a specialization in theater, film and television from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently working on a graduate certificate in international security at Stanford University. Kal Penn played the role of Gogol Ganguli in Mira Nair's "The Namesake". He currently appears as Dr. Lawrence Kutner on "House" (Fox). He will also reprise his role as Kumar Patel in "Harold and Kumar 2", which will be released in Spring 2008.

Mera Moore Post-doctoral Fellow in Critical Writing and Theatre Arts Ph.D., University of Hawai`i at Manoa (Theatre) 2000. Mera Moore began studying Asian theatre as an undergraduate at Ohio State University, where in her honors thesis she translated _Yishuja_ (The Artist), a 1923 Chinese spoken-drama comedy, into English, along with a historical analysis of the play. During graduate school in Hawai`i, she studied immigrant and ethnic American literature and theatre, completing her dissertation on the political theatre of immigrant playwright Ursule Molinaro, for which she earned the Tanahashi Peace Fellowship. Since coming to teach at Penn, she has been publishing articles on immigrant playwrights and filmmakers. She is currently making videos of her original dramatic poetry for posting on youtube.com. Email: tmlaffer@sas.upenn.edu

Tamara Nopper Tamara K. Nopper is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Temple University, where she also serves as an adjunct instructor and teaches courses in race, ethnicity, immigration, and Asian American history and experiences. Her research articles explore immigration enforcement and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. She is completing her dissertation on the role of Korean banks and the federal government in capitalizing Korean immigrant entrepreneurship in the US.

Jacqueline Sadashige Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania (Classical Studies). 1995 Dr. Sadashige is trained as a cultural historian of Rome. Currently, she focuses on the representation of Asians and Asian Americans in film. Email: sadashig@sas.upenn.edu

Kimberly C. Torres Postdoctal Fellow, Office of Population Studies, Princeton University Ph.D. Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. 2006 Kimberly Torres received her Ph.D. in sociology from The University of Pennsylvania in 2006, A.M. in sociology from The University of Pennsylvania in 2001, and A.B. in sociology and government (with distinction) from Hamilton College. She studies issues of race and higher education, principally the diversity of the black experience at selective colleges and universities.