Experts Directory: Minorities: Asian Americans

Edith Chen

Department of Asian American Studies
work: (818) 677-4966
email: Edith.chen@csun.edu

  • Asian American studies
  • Race and ethnicity in the U.S. and Latin America
  • Asian Pacific American women
  • Chinese Americans
  • Pedagogy
  • Applied research
  • Youth opportunity grant impact on Molokai, Hawaii
  • Author: “Teaching About Asian Pacific Americans: Effective Activities, Assignments and Strategies for Classrooms”

Learn more about Edith Chen:

CSUN to Help Digitize 10,000 Documents, Oral Histories Relating to WWII Internment of Japanese Americans

 

Jinah Kim

Department of Communication Studies
work: (818) 677-7414
email: jinah.kim@csun.edu

  • Asian American and Korean American politics and culture, including the Los Angeles riots, 20th and 21st century popular culture, contemporary politics and K-pop
  • Asian-Latino cultural and political relations
  • Issues impacting undocumented Asian populations
  • Author: “Postcolonial Grief: Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas”

Learn more about Jinah Kim:

CSUN Fellowship to Support Scholarship on Comfort Women
 

Stephanie Lim

Department of English
work: (818) 677-6915
email: stephanie.lim@csun.edu

  • Broadway
  • Musical theater
  • Los Angeles theater
  • Asian-American theater
  • Deaf theater
  • Performance and cultural/national identity

 

Marta Cristina López-Garza

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies
Department of Chicana/o Studies
work: (818) 677-6488 / 4785
email: marta.lopez-garza@csun.edu
Also speaks: Spanish

  • Economic development
  • Ethnographic field research
  • Formerly incarcerated women
  • Immigration and public policy
  • Race and class studies
  • Urban sociology
  • Women’s/feminist studies
  • Documentary filmmaking from a social science perspective
  • Visual sociology (photography)
  • Member, Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment, South Los Angeles
  • Member, Institute for the Renewal of the California Draw
  • Co-author: “Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together”
  • Co-editor: “Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Los Angeles”
  • Documentary: “‘When Will the Punishment End?’ Formerly Incarcerated Women Rebuilding Their Lives”

Learn more about Marta Cristina Lóper-Garza:

Marta Cristina Lóper-Garza Biography

 

Maria Mami Turnmeyer

Department of Asian American Studies
work: (818) 677-4966
email: Mariaturnmeyer@csun.edu

  • Asian American literature and poetry
  • Postmodern and post-colonial literature
  • Popular culture and the Asian American experience
  • Creating writing workshops
  • Diversity projects
  • Asian American performance art and drama

 

Teresa Williams-Leon

Department of Asian American Studies
work: (818) 677-4966
email: teresa.k.williams@csun.edu
Also speaks: Japanese

  • General Asian American studies
  • Biracial/multiracial identity
  • Interracial marriages
  • Race and ethnic relations
  • Sociology of race
  • Gender studies
  • Japanese American identity
  • Japanese American families
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