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”
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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