The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History
Edited by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma
Author Information
David K. Yoo is Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written and edited several books, including Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945 and Growing Up Nisei: Race, Generation, and Culture Among Japanese Americans of California, 1924-1949.
Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Endowed Term Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.
Contributors:
Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kor Term Chair and Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at University of Pennsylvania. He is the award-winning author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, Transnationalism in Japanese America.
Keith L. Camacho is Associate Professor of Pacific Islander Studies in the Asian American Studies Department and a Faculty-in-Residence at the Office of Residential Life at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the senior editor of Amerasia Journal, the author of Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands, and the co-editor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific.
Sucheng Chan is Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship, teaching, and service to students, the campus, and the Asian American community.
Gordon H. Chang is Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University and the Olive H. Palmer Professor in Humanities. He has written extensively about Asian American history and America-East Asia relations. Among his more recent work is Asian Americans and Politics: Perspectives, Experiences, Prospects, Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970, and Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with China. He is the co-director of the Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project at Stanford, a multidisciplinary and international effort to recover and interpret the history of Chinese workers who helped construct the first transcontinental and other rail lines throughout the country.
Jason Oliver Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut (Storrs). He is the author of a book manuscript entitled Chino: Racial Transformation of the Chinese in Mexico, 1880-1940. He is also co-editor of Asian America: A Primary Source Reader with K. Scott Wong and Cathy Schlund-Vials (forthcoming) .
Kornel S. Chang is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers-Newark, State University of New Jersey. He is the author of Pacific Connections: The Making of the U.S.-Canadian Borderlands, winner of the 2014 Association for Asian American Studies History Book Prize and runner-up finalist for the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize. He is currently working on a book on the U.S. Occupation of Korea.
Catherine Ceniza Choy is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America and Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History.
Augusto Fauni Espiritu is Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies (AAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has recently published the articles, "Inter-Imperial Relations, the Pacific, and Asian American History" and "Planting Roots: Asian American Studies in the Midwest." He was former head of the AAS Department and serves as Series Editor for Southeast Asian Diasporas in the Americas (Brill) and member of the Editorial Board for Amerasia Journal.
Madeline Y Hsu is Associate Professor of History at University of Texas, Austin, and former Director of the Center for Asian American Studies. Her first book Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration Between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 won the 2002 Association for Asian American Studies History Book award. She co-edited Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture with Sucheng Chan and edited Him Mark Lai's Chinese American Transnational Politics. Her second monograph, The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority, was published in 2015.
Moon-Ho Jung is Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation and editor of The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific.
Helen Jin Kim is a doctoral candidate in Religion at Harvard University. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and English Literature from Stanford. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Asian Pacific American Religion and Research Initiative (APARRI).
Lon Kurashige teaches at the University of Southern California, where he is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History. He is author of Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival, 1934-1990, winner of the History book prize from the Association for Asian American Studies in 2004. He has written essays for many scholarly publications, including the Journal of American History and Pacific Historical Review, and is co-editor of the reader Major Problems in Asian American History. He is currently completing two book projects. "Perfect Storm of Exclusion: Asian Americans, Political Debate, and the Making of a Pacific Nation" (forthcoming) is a reinterpretation of the history of Asian immigration exclusion. He is also a founding co-author of a forthcoming college-level U.S. History textbook.
Scott Kurashige is Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. He is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and co-author with Grace Lee Boggs of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century.
Erika Lee is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. She is the author the award-winning books, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 and Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (co-authored with Judy Yung), as well as The Making of Asian America: A History.
Daryl Joji Maeda is the author of Rethinking the Asian American Movement and Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America. He is Chair and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire After 9/11. Her co-edited books include Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America, which won the American Book Award in 1997, and The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent.
Simeon Man teaches in the History Department at University of California, San Diego. He is currently at work on his first book, Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific (forthcoming).
Franklin Odo is currently the John Jay McCloy Visiting Professor of American Institutions and Foreign Diplomacy at Amherst College. He led the National Park Service Theme Study on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Greg Robinson, a native of New York City, is Professor of U.S. History at l'Université du Québec À Montréal. His books include By Order of the President; A Tragedy of Democracy; and After Camp. He has also published widely in law journals and legal media.
John P. Rosa is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He has published Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case and the Culture of History, as well as articles in Amerasia Journal, the Journal of Asian American Studies, and AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, Practice, and Community.
Amy Sueyoshi is the Associate Dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University and the author of Queer Compulsions. Her second book titled Sex Acts is forthcoming. She is also a founding co-curator of the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco, the first free standing museum on queer history in the nation.
Eileen H. Tamura is Professor of History of Education and Chair of the Department of Educational Foundations, College of Education, University of Hawai'i. Her publications include In Defense of Justice: Joseph Kurihara and the Japanese American Struggle for Equality; The History of Discrimination in U.S. Education: Marginality, Agency, and Power (edited); Asian and Pacific Islander American Education: Social, Cultural, and Historical Contexts (edited); and Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii. Tamura is past President of the History of Education Society.
Timothy Tseng is the Pastor of English Ministries at Canaan Taiwanese Christian Church in San Jose, California and was the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Asian American Christianity (ISAAC). He has served as faculty at Denver Seminary, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and as Associate Professor of American Religious History and Director of the Asian American Center at the American Baptist Seminary of the West/Graduate Theological Union.
Chia Youyee Vang is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on American involvement in Southeast Asia in the post-WWII era and the large flow of refugees in the aftermath of the American war in Vietnam to the United States. She is author of Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora.
Adrienne A. Winans is an Assistant Professor of History at Utah Valley University. Her current research project interrogates the intersection of gender, race, and space through the everyday experiences of Chinese American women and families. It re-maps exclusion era Chinese America from the margins using INS Chinese Exclusion Act files of women, transnational students, and mixed-race families.
K. Scott Wong is the James Phinney Baxter III Professor of History and Public Affairs at Williams College where he teaches a variety of courses in Asian American history, comparative immigration history, history and memory, and the history of race and ethnicity in American culture. In addition to numerous articles in journals and anthologies, he is the co-editor, with Sucheng Chan, of Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era and the author of "Americans First": Chinese Americans and the Second World War. He is also a series editor for the Asian American History and Culture series.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era. She co-edits Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Women's America: Refocusing the Past, 8th Edition and a book series with Brill on "Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race." She is working with Gwendolyn Mink on a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color U.S. congressional representatives and the co-sponsor of Title IX.
David K. Yoo is Professor of Asian American Studies and Director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or editor of seven books, including Contentious Spirits: Religion in Korean American History, 1903-1945.
Henry Yu received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Ph.D. in History from Princeton University. After teaching at UCLA for a decade, Yu returned to the University of British Columbia as Professor to build new on-campus and community-engaged programs to recover the histories of trans-Pacific migrants to Canada. The history of the Pacific region and the Americas as an engagement between trans-Pacific migrants, trans-Atlantic migrants, and indigenous peoples has been the focus of his scholarly research, student teaching, and university/community collaborations.
Xiaojian Zhao is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 (winner of the History Book Award from the Association of Asian American Studies) and The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and social Hierarchy.
