AAAS 2024 Conference Booklet

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 2020s:
DISCIPLINARY, ETHNIC, DIASPORIC IDENTITIES
2020s:
Asian American Studies
in the
Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities
ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

ANNUAL CONFERENCE
SEATTLE, WA
APRIL 25-27,
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ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 2020s:
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 DISCIPLINARY, ETHNIC, DIASPORIC IDENTITIES
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AAAS Board Members...............................................................................4
Association for Asian American Studies.....................................................
Mission, Activities, & Membership...............................................5
Welcome from the President.....................................................................6
Welcome from the Program Committee....................................................8
Welcome from the Site Committee..........................................................10
Conference Committees.........................................................................12
AAAS Presidents.....................................................................................14
Book Awards...........................................................................................16
Honors & Awards.....................................................................................30
Lifetime Members....................................................................................42
Tenure-Track Faculty Symposium & Mentoring Program........................44
Plenary Sessions.....................................................................................52
Mentorship Panels...................................................................................74
Section Meetings.....................................................................................78
Graduate Student Sessions.....................................................................79
Tours........................................................................................................80
2024 Exhibitors........................................................................................85
Receptions...............................................................................................86
Call for Papers 2025...............................................................................88
Conference Schedule..................................................................................
Thursday.....................................................................................90
Friday........................................................................................134
Saturday....................................................................................180
Sponsors & Donors................................................................................212
Index......................................................................................................214
Advertisements......................................................................................228
PROGRAM DESIGNED BY:

JUSTIN GONZALEZ
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AAAS BOARD MEMBERS 2024 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
President Northern California Representative Mission

Pawan Dhingra James Zarsadiaz Founded in 1979, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Amherst College University of San Francisco
Term: 2023-2026
has emerged as a primary research and teaching hub for Asian American
Term: 2022-2024
Studies, an interdisciplinary field born out of the 1960s movements for
President-Elect Section Representative racial justice and student activism. Invested in advancing the highest
Martin Manalansan Thaomi Michelle Dinh professional standards of research, teaching, and service in the field
Rutgers University University of Washington, Seattle of Asian American Studies, the AAAS is committed to sponsoring
Term: 2023-2024 Term: 2022-2025
conferences, symposia, special projects, and events, which engage
Interior West/South Representative Archivist the association’s priorities with regard to scholarship, mentorship, and
Francis Tanglao Aguas Julia Huỳnh pedagogy. Equally important is the degree to which the association’s
College of William and Mary Term: 2023-2025 various objectives – specifically as they intersect with advocating and
Term: 2022-2025 representing the interests and welfare of Asian American Studies and
Student Representative
Asian Americans – reflect multiple communities and varied identities.
Mid-Atlantic Representative Khoi Nguyen
Gina Velasco University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Haverford College Term: 2022-2024 Activities
Term: 2022-2025
Contingent Faculty Representative
Since 1980, the AAAS has sponsored an annual national conference,
Mid-West Representative Rishi Guné which remains the central academic venue for Asian American Studies
Shalini Shankar Princeton University as a dynamic interdisciplinary field. The AAAS publishes an esteemed
Northwestern University Term: 2023-2025 peer-reviewed journal (the Journal of Asian American Studies); sponsors
Term: 2023-2026 convenings for directors and chairs of Asian American studies programs
and departments; hosts workshops for junior faculty; stages “drop-in” job
New England/Central and Eastern
Canada Representative market clinics for graduate students; recognizes cutting-edge research
Sony Coráñez Bolton via its book awards; celebrates the work of field founders and community
Amherst College organizers; and serves as an information/advocacy resource on matters
Term: 2023-2026 concerning Asian Americans and Asian American Studies.
Pacific Northwest, Hawai'i and
Pacific Islands, & Western Canada Membership
Representative Comprised of researchers, teachers, and students, the membership for
Linh Thuy Nguyen
University of Washington, Seattle
the AAAS reflects the disciplinary diversity of the field and its practitioners.
Term: 2022-2025 The membership also includes those in the private and public sectors,
activists, artists, writers, journalists, archivists and librarians, policy
Southern California Representative makers, and community organizers. Membership in the AAAS is based on
Josen Masangkay Diaz a calendar year (January 1 – December 31). A member in good standing
University of San Diego
Term: 2023-2026
is one whose paid membership is current in the calendar year. Those
in good standing will receive AAAS email announcements, reduced
conference registration rates, the Journal of Asian American Studies,
voting and advocacy privileges, and access to special programs.
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WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT

April 2024
Welcome to Seattle, the ancestral lands of the Duwamish, Suquamish, and At a time when the humanities are under threat, and the most basic principles
other indigenous peoples! As we all still confront the lingering effects of the of equity and inclusion are politically challenged, a strong AAAS is all the
global pandemic, I appreciate that we can meet in person to learn from one more important. Our advocacy this past year includes the endorsement of
another and be in community. Whether this is your 20th AAAS conference the Solidarity with Palestine Statement, primarily authored by the members
or your first, I hope it is memorable. of our SWANA section, and four statements by the association.
Recurring members often refer to AAAS as a family. The conferences let us

meet people with shared interests and commitments, which is especially Finally, this commitment to an expansive AAAS requires a material
meaningful when pursuing Asian American studies is an isolating experience commitment. I am proud that last year's board approved changes in our
on our campuses. However, a family also means closed boundaries and spending so that we could double the number of contingent faculty and
insider-outsider statuses. Since I’ve been a member of AAAS since the graduate students who can register for our conference for free and discount
mid-1990s, we have questioned who is at the center and who remains the fees for all of the others. This is our first year with those changes in
peripheral in the field. That continues today. place, and it strengthens the conference as a result.
AAAS and the field overall are stronger when we have more (inter)disciplines, Thank you all for making my presidency a meaningful part of my life. Thanks
more groups, and more types of attendees. In my second and final year as to the program committee co-chairs, Nadia Kim and Sameer Pandya, and
president, I am excited that we are building off of the momentum from last the site committee co-chairs Moon-Ho Jung and Tracy Lai. I especially
year’s conference to intentionally include a wide range of members and want to thank our staff, Anna Gonzalez, Jennifer DeLuna, Tamara Ko, and
community groups, which the program and site committees have done. Alex Parker-Guerrero. They are the backbone of our association, making
Beyond the conference itself, we are hosting our first-ever symposium possible so much of what we take for granted. And a huge thanks to our
and mentoring program for tenure-track faculty. Faculty specializing in board, who have thoughtfully and passionately helped lead our association.
the social sciences, education, and the arts – all under-represented in the
association – have been given priority.
This is a historic moment for AAAS, for we have just received $100,000
in grants from The Asian American Foundation and The Henry Luce
Foundation. In addition to the symposium and mentoring program, the
grants allow us to conduct our first-ever self-study. This self-study will
position us to advance the association in line with our long-standing values
and priorities, with oversight by the board. It is the expectation that these Pawan Dhingra
grants will lead to future grants. After years of working towards more AAAS President
funding, we are on a pathway. Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the
Faculty
Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank ’55 Professor of U.S.
Immigration Studies, Amherst College
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WELCOME FROM THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
A heart-felt welcome to the 2024 Association for Asian American Studies We want to thank President Pawan Dhingra and the board for their time
conference in Seattle, Washington! The name “Seattle” comes from Chief and dedication to making this meeting happen, as well as the often
Si’ahl, making Seattle the only major American city named after a Native unseen, tireless work of our volunteers Anna Gonzalez, Tamara Ko,
chief. Chief Si’ahl led both the Suquamish and Duwamish people, the Jennifer DeLuna, and Alex Parker-Guerrero. The site committee chairs
latter’s lands which currently make up metropolitan Seattle and on which Moon-Ho Jung and Tracy Lai– have put together a wonderful program in
we are honored to hold the AAAS gathering this year. We also honor this gorgeous city that we hope many of you will enjoy.
the Muckleshoot, Puyallup, Snoqualmie, Tulalip, and other Coast Salish
peoples of the greater Seattle, Washington region. Thank you for all that you do – seen and unseen, acknowledged and
unacknowledged – and thank you for caring, for your passion, and for
As program co-chairs for this year’s conference, our primary goal has being here. AAAS is in very good hands and we are excited to see where
been to initiate a broad-ranging conversation in which we consider Asian we will go together.
American Studies in the 2020s. As we wrote in our conference theme,
“how might we reevaluate and remap what disciplines, ethnoracial
groups, and diasporic processes have defined Asian American Studies Nadia Y. Kim, Texas A&M University
and, by extension, decentered others?” In putting together such a wide Sameer Pandya, University of California, Santa Barbara
variety of panels, workshops, roundtables, plenary sessions, readings, AAAS 2024 Program Committee Co-Chairs
and films across disciplines, specialties, geographic locales, and schools
of thought, we hope to have created the space for necessary conversation
and much needed community as the world seems to feel less and less
stable.
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WELCOME FROM THE SITE COMMITTEE

When you need a break from the conference hotel, we hope that you will
consider paying a visit to Anida Yoeu Ali’s exhibit, “Hybrid Skin, Mythical
Presence,” at the Seattle Asian Art Museum on Capitol Hill. A guided
Welcome to the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian American tour and a conversation with Ali are scheduled for a limited number of
Studies in Seattle, Washington, located on the ancestral homelands of conference participants on Sunday, April 28, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Connie
the Duwamish, Suquamish, Muckleshoot, Tulalip, Snoqualmie, Puyallup, So, who has been teaching Asian American Studies at the University of
and other Coast Salish peoples. We acknowledge that past and present Washington for decades, will be leading a walking tour of Capitol Hill,
to remind ourselves that we are meeting on colonized land and that the including a stop at Bruce Lee’s gravesite. She and her students will also
racial and colonial violence waged and financed by the US empire is lead another tour of the UW campus.
ongoing, here and around the world. Or, in the words of the dynamic hip
hop duo Blue Scholars, welcome to the Upper Left, “Live from occupied There are so many community-based organizations in Seattle doing
Duwamish territory/ Where Carlos Bulosan once lived to tell the story.” good work that we had a really hard time choosing one (or two) for the
Community Award. Just to name a few, the International Examiner, a lifeline
Seattle is full of contradictions. Since we last met here in 2013, Seattle’s of information on Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, is
landscape has changed dramatically, perhaps visible most readily in celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year. The Wing Luke Museum and
Amazon’s huge footprint in South Lake Union. You have no doubt heard of Densho continue to collect and disseminate knowledge to wider publics.
Seattle’s other hometown icons of global capitalism—Boeing, Microsoft, API Chaya has brought to light gender-based violence and human
Starbucks—that have all profited immensely from labor exploitation and trafficking in our communities and carries out programs to support and
state violence. But there are so many other, more interesting stories to empower survivors and their loved ones. Local chapters of Tsuru for
uncover, including in Chinatown-International District, home to generations Solidarity and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance have been very
of Asian American communities. We invite you to two organized tours of active in demanding justice for those who suffer under the wrath of mass
the neighborhood, to get glimpses of past and current struggles and to incarceration and racial capitalism. The list could go on and on.
eat good food. Everyone should check out Hood Famous, owned and
operated by Chera Amlag and Geo Quibuyen (of Blue Scholars). In the end, we decided to narrow our criteria to organizations focused on
the themes of our plenaries: organizing labor and interracial solidarity. We
Because organizing labor and interracial solidarity have been so central to concluded that two organizations equally deserved the award in 2024,
Asian American history in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, we planned recognizing one (Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing) for the
two plenary sessions around those themes. The first (Thursday, 1-2:30 work it has done over the decades and another (Massage Parlor Outreach
p.m., Metropolitan A) will focus on Alaskan cannery workers’ struggles Project) for its innovative work at the current moment. LELO and MPOP,
that culminated in the historic decision, Wards Cove Packing Company v. we believe, are carrying on the founding mission of Asian American
Atonio (1989), and connect those struggles to contemporary organizing Studies: To use knowledge by and about Asian American communities to
among local Asian American massage parlor and hotel workers. The generate radical critique and collective action. As we convene in Seattle
second (Friday, 8:15-9:45 a.m., Metropolitan A) will be a roundtable on for a few days, we hope that everyone will feel more motivated to advance
“Forging Radical Struggles in Multiracial Seattle,” featuring Megan Asaka that mission, in the Upper Left and far beyond.
and Diana Johnson, authors of two recent books on Seattle, and Mike
Tagawa, the former Black Panther and veteran Asian American activist.
For those of you who will stay through Sunday, we encourage you to Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington, Seattle
participate in a march for Remembrance and Resistance in Tacoma, Tracy Lai, Seattle Central College
where longstanding US policies of incarceration and deportation are AAAS 2024 Site Committee Co-Chairs
being carried out at the Northwest Detention Center.
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEES CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
PROGRAM COMMITTEE SITE COMMITTEE

Nadia Y. Kim, Texas A&M University, Co-Chair Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington, Seattle, Co-Chair
Sameer Pandya, University of California, Santa Barbara, Co-Chair Tracy Lai, Seattle Central College, Co-Chair
Constancio Arnaldo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ching-in Chen, University of Washington, Bothell
Falu Bakrania, San Francisco State University Cindy Domingo, Community Activist
Rick Bonus, University of Washington
Rahul Gupta, Wing Luke Museum
Kavita Daiya, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
Eunice How, Community and Labor Activist
Yến Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Kikuchi, South Seattle College
Rachael Joo, Middlebury College Charlene Mano-Shen, Wing Luke Museum
Simi Kang, University of Victoria Vince Schleitwiler, University of Washington, Seattle
Nhu Le, University of South Florida Connie So, University of Washington, Seattle
Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado Boulder
Jan Padios, Wlliams College
Jyoti Puri, Simmons University
Junaid Rana, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University
Curtiss Rooks, Loyola Marymount University
Bindi Shah, University of Southhampton
Lila Sharif, Arizona State University
Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University
Ivan Small, University of Houston
Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Nishant Upadhya, University of Colorado Boulder
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AAAS PRESIDENTS
Douglas W. Lee 1979-1980
Sucheng Chan 1981-1983
Don T. Nakanishi 1983-1985
Gary Y. Okihiro 1985-1987
Shirley Hune 1987-1989
Franklin Odo 1989-1991
Elaine H. Kim 1991-1993
Kenyon S. Chan 1993-1995
Gail M. Nomura 1995-1997
Yen Le Espiritu 1997-1998
Stephen H. Sumida 1999-2000
Hien Duc Do 2000-2002
Dana Y. Takagi 2002-2004
Franklin Ng 2004-2006
Rajini Srikanth 2006-2008
Rick Bonus 2008-2010
Josephine Lee 2010-2012
Mary Yu Danico 2012-2014
Linda Trinh Võ 2014-2016
Cathy Schlund-Vials 2016-2018
Theodore S. Gonzalves 2018-2020
Jennifer Ho 2020-2022
Pawan Dhingra 2022-2024
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BOOK AWARDS
CREATIVE WRITING (POETRY) CREATIVE WRITING (POETRY)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT HONORABLE MENTIONS
Indecent Hours by James Fujinami Moore Customs by Solmaz Sharif

(Four Way Books) (Graywolf Press)
James Fujinami Moore’s Indecent Hours wakes you up and you’lI find
yourself in the future, surrounded by carrion and shitake light. Amid
the evocations of the visceral in these poems are journeys of memory
and experience, ones that recount things as myriad as bad apples in All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
Vermont, the invisible Buddha of Kyoto, and Tinder-recommended Hot (Penguin Random House)
Witches in Salem. Moore's poetry recalls such historical events as the
1982 match between Ray Mancini and Duk-koo Kim (which led to the
death of the Korean boxer) and the World War II Japanese American
incarceration. Yet the present is also accounted for when, for instance,
a poem relays the casual racism of its narrator being asked, while at a
urinal, if he knew Bruce Lee. Moore is a gifted writer who infuses his
poems with humor and an intoxicating candor. In one poem, a speak-
er declares “I am so tired of talking about Manzanar. / Lord let me talk
about anything / else instead. The moon, the sea, even fucking flow-
ers…” Later, a poem is titled “I want to tell you about even the fucking
flowers.” History, survival, pleasure – all are tended to with fierce imag-
ination. These poems are tonally percussive, viscerally intimate, and
lyrically incisive.
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CREATIVE WRITING (PROSE)

BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION
CREATIVE WRITING (PROSE)

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT Mother Ocean Father Nation by Nishant Batsha
(Ecco, HarperCollins)
Nuclear Family by Joseph Han

(Counterpoint Press)
Nishant Batsha’s Mother Ocean Father Nation is an engaging novel that
offers thoughtful characterizations throughout, while examining themes
of family, identity, and dislocation. Batsha’s gift of rendering complex
interiority and the fullness of one’s inner life made this novel standout.
Tender, funny, and filled with linguistic experiments, Joseph Han’s

Nuclear Family is a compelling narrative that traverses literal and figu-
rative landscapes of family, intergenerational trauma, and queerness.
Linking together the novel’s exploration of such liminal spaces is a
consciousness crafted by an agile and inventive authorial interpretation.
Such a perspective makes this novel wholly original in its scope and
memorable for its voice resonating with poignancy and humor.
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HISTORY
BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTIONS
Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the
HISTORY Transpacific Origins of the US Security State
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT by Moon-Ho Jung (University of California Press)
A literal tour-de-force, Moon-Ho Jung’s Menace to

Empire traces colonial violence across the Pacific.
Jung centers the international connections among
Race for Revival: How Cold War South Korea Asian radicals who confronted colonial power,
Shaped the American Evangelical Empire adeptly linking revolutionary movements in the Phil-
by Helen Jin Kim (Oxford University Press) ippines, India, Hawai’i, Japan. As Jung shows, U.S. authorities merged
fears of the yellow peril and the red scare, surveilled and suppressed
anti-colonial activism and, in the process, created the origins of the
national security state. Jung identifies panethnic, anticolonial strug-
gles emerging from the Philippine-American war through World War II,
long before the established periodization. This multisited history tells a
In Race for Revival, Helen Jin Kim traces not only the rise of Christi- powerful alternative genealogy of Asian American history and anti-Asian
anity in South Korea as a response to the Cold War, but also how this racism that undermines the liberal narrative of the United States as a
rise revived evangelical crusades in the U.S. More than mimicking nation of immigrants.
their imperial progenitors like BIlly Graham, Korean protestant leaders
had their own aspirations in the new world order. This remarkable and Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial
meticulous study is only possible through diligent archival research and Relations in the American Colonial Philippines,
oral histories conducted over two continents and in two languages. The 1898-1946
intermingling religious histories of the U.S. and Korea forecast the rise by Tessa Winkelmann (Cornell University Press)
of Christian Right from the Reagan era to this day and add an important
layer of heterogeneity to our conception of Asian America. It’s a timely Tessa Winkelmann's insightful study of interracial
contribution to both the field of transpacific history and our understand- social relations in the U.S. Philippine colony and
ing of how religion continues to shape politics today. commonwealth in Dangerous Intercourse
foregrounds the terrain of race, gender, and sex as
a foundational area of inquiry in understanding the reach and limits of
imperial power. Her deft use of a range of multilingual sources, and her
readings of colonial materials against the grain deepen our understand-
ing of the everyday negotiations of Filipinas under U.S. occupation.
Winkelmann’s history offers a sustained analysis that centers Filipina life
and desire, and expands our knowledge of the anxieties they presented
for colonial authorities.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY / MULTIDISCIPLINARY
BOOK AWARDS HONORABLE MENTIONS
Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect
INTERDISCIPLINARY / MULTIDISCIPLINARY Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT

America, 1890-1950
by Jeannie Shinozuka
(The University of Chicago Press)
Jeannie Shinozuka's Biotic Borders: Transpacific

Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian
in Cambodia Racism in America, 1890-1950 is a pathbreaking and
by Y-Dang Troeung (Temple University Press) unique study of anti-Asian racism focusing on the histories of Japanese
American communities (mostly in the US but also hemispherically). This
book presses Asian American Studies to address the complexity of
agrarian, public health, and environmental relationships that forge the
grounds of border regulation, racialization, and settler colonialism. The
author is informed by a variety of interdisciplinary approaches that bring
Y-Dang Troeung’s Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in together the biological sciences, attention to landscape, gardening, and
Cambodia makes vital contributions to Asian American Studies through agriculture, analysis of race in public health and law, and trade and com-
the lens of the Cambodian experience of the Cold War. Foregrounding mercial histories. Arguably, in doing so, the book goes “out on a limb”
an approach to critical refugee studies that allows for a complex under- and crosses the humanities and the sciences–for example, bringing to
standing of empire, militarism, and genocide as key aspects of Cambo- bear the fields of entomology and public health on studies of race and
dian refugee experience, the book blends autotheory with cultural and ethnicity.
historical analysis to give a multifaceted account of refugee subjectivity.
In the process, the book engages deeply with disability studies, ana- Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and
lyzing how representations of disability appear across a wide archive of Transpacific Imaginaries
Cambodian and Cambodian diasporic media. Refugee Lifeworlds in the by Jodi Kim (Duke University Press)
process helps Asian Americanists rethink the frame of the Cold War by
creating a method for bridging an understanding of state and imperial Jodi Kim's Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism,
violence with the multifaceted strategies that refugees use to navigate Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries offers a novel
changing conditions across dispersed geographies. Troeung ultimately approach to theorizing race and the United States
offers a beautiful and devastating account of refugee life that bridges the empire through debt. Analyzing how the
body and politics, media and performance, and theory and experience. exceptionalist debt relationship of the U.S. to the
rest of the world has created a settler colonial “garrison” of transpacific
militarized zones, Kim reads a variety of cultural productions forge anti-
militarist imaginaries that can be resources for challenging this form of
empire. In the process, Kim offers new and exciting critical approaches
to a number of fields including settler colonial studies, racial capitalism
theories, and oceanic studies.
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LITERARY STUDIES
Pedagogies of Woundedness
LITERARY STUDIES by James Kyung-jin Lee
(Temple University Press)
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT
James Kyung-jin Lee’s Pedagogies of Woundedness
interrogates and reframes categories of disability
within Asian American studies through an
examination of illness autobiographies to identify
Minor Salvage by Stephen Hong Sohn how they intervene in model minority discourse. By
(University of Michigan Press) tracing how Asian American authors narratively negotiate the contradic-
tion between the model minority myth’s idealized and racialized body
with the realities of illness, Pedagogies posits that illness should not be
seen as less than but taken on its own terms, as a form of subjectivity
that deserves full consideration. This is an exploration that astutely
draws on East and South Asian demographics, all the while reconstitut-
Innovative in framing and method, Stephen Hong Sohn’s Minor Sal- ing how we can think critically about activism within disability studies.
vage offers a novel means of interpreting Korean American literature by Especially fascinating is Lee’s emphasis on how the reader comes into
elevating understudied life writings and familial archives and recontex- these narratives, and how they challenge and open up silences within
tualizing them as refugee literature, thereby enfolding the Korean War the Asian American archive. Richly textured and critically incisive, Ped-
and Korean America within critical refugee studies. A deeply personal agogies of Woundedness challenges the field to claim and engage with
work, Minor Salvage embraces family lore and history as a legitimate generative alterities of body and mind.
archive worthy of scholarly engagement alongside literary texts and
films against the backdrop of military and state discourse. Sohn crafts a
clear, recuperative methodology around a set of post-Korean War texts,
authors, subjects that have mostly been forgotten or are inaccessible;
in giving them serious consideration, Sohn’s study highlights the capa-
cious value of life writing as a space for deeper investigation into the
recurring forced displacement of Koreans both during the war and in
subsequent literary and narrative senses in the United States. Ambitious
in scale, skillful in execution, and compellingly affecting, Sohn’s schol-
arship–through unexpected avenues–demonstrates how theory can
open the fraught legacies of nationalism, militarism, and displacement to
critical discernment.
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MEDIA, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL STUDIES

Model Minority Masochism: Performing
MEDIA, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL STUDIES the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity
by Takeo Rivera
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT (Oxford University Press)
Provocatively self-critical of Asian American

masculinity which may be challenging for people to
comprehend, and a new way of understanding Asian
Vulgar Beauty: Acting Chinese in the Global American history (e.g., the killing of Vincent Chin and
Sensorium by Mila Zuo gendered, raced mico- and macro-aggressions then and now).
(Duke University Press) Following the long tradition of feminist and queer Asian American
scholarship that has named the masculinist impulse in the field, Rivera
puts pressure on model minority myth and offers fresh insight on Asian
American politics and provides a framework for rethinking intersectional,
structural violence.
Offering a new analytic of Asian American media performance, Zuo’s

theorization of vulgar beauty specifically offers a provocative, fresh way
to theorize gender, race in the global which we believe will have contri-
butions to Asian American Studies, Asian studies, diaspora studies and
beyond. This evocative work enacts the idea of vulgarity and excess
in a theoretically-rich and groundbreaking study. Fun, pleasurable, and
potentially field changing for thinking through gender and race through
diaspora. Mila’s writing style offers both a theorization and “how to”-
-she teaches us how to understand things that we don’t commonly
put together. Poetically written and theoretically synesthetic, this book
embodies its high-stakes theory by incorporating the five tastes/flavors
with a global purview that challenges the boundaries of Asia and North
America, addressing its audience’s doubled gazes, refracting circuits of
desire and despair.
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers,
SOCIAL SCIENCES Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent
Visa Program
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT by Pallavi Banerjee
(NYU, 2022)
vv We are recognizing The Opportunity Trap with an

honorable mention for its multiple levels of analysis
Contesting the last frontier: race, gender, ethnicity, and skillful bridging of empiricism and theoretical
and political representation of Asian Americans development in the study of the visa regime, the way it subordinates
by Pei-Te Lien and Nicole Filler spouses of skilled migrants, and restructures race, gender, and family
(Oxford, 2022) relations in the process. The book laudably connects global hierarchy,
the transnational, and neoliberal racial capitalism on the one hand, to
gendered and familial lives of South Asian migrants holding these visas
on the other hand. The Opportunity Trap also draws on multiple forms
of data, the most sophisticated of which are its in-depth interviews and
ethnographic observations. This is a welcome addition to the Asian
In mainstream politics, Asian Americans as a voting bloc or political Americanist social science category.
force are rarely ever invoked. Despite their status as the fastest grow-
ing population of color, Asian Americans are rarely included with the
“White,” “Black,” and increasingly “Latino” electorate; pundits blame
small numbers/small influence, but have slowly begun to respond to
Asian Americans’ self-positioning in the polity, the ascendancy of Asian
nations abroad, and to Trump’s anti-China and “Kung Flu” demagogu-
ery that spawned racist violence and death. To read Lien’s and Filler’s
Contesting the Last Frontier in this moment is a revelation. Using rich
forms of data and original mixed methodologies, the authors burst
through the traditional but delimited study of electoral politics, which as
a book would have been a major undertaking in and of itself; instead,
they begin from the historic Asian American Movement – especially the
women’s movement, which has been severely understudied in favor of
the masculinist/patriarchal history of race mobilizations – and trace the
arc into the electoral mainstream. To do so, they conduct oral history
and in-depth interviews with past and present Asian American elected
officers, filling in a major gap in (qualitative) and historical research and
centering an unacknowledged and submerged legacy. Contesting the
Last Frontier is a pathbreaking and trailblazing work of Asian American-
ist social science.
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EARLY CAREER ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

HONORS + AWARDS Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Assistant Professor of Elementary Educa-
tion & Educational Justice, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan
State University
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Noreen Naseem Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor
Dr. Huping Ling, Professor of History Emerita, Truman State University
of Elementary Education and Educational Justice in
the Department of Teacher Education and core
An internationally renowned historian and prolific
faculty in the Asian Pacific American Studies
award-winning writer, Huping Ling (令狐萍) is Professor
program at Michigan State University. Her research
of History Emerita, the founder of the Asian/Asian
engages critical race frameworks to explore the
American Studies Program, and the past department
pedagogical practices of teachers of color and the
chair at Truman State University. She is the Visiting
teaching of so-called difficult histories through
Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University,
children's literature and primary sources. She has
the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Scholar Chair
published over three dozen peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in
Professor of the Chinese Ministry of Education,
scholarly and practitioner journals such as Harvard Educational Review,
Distinguished Honorary Professor at Lishui University,
Journal of Children's Literature, Social Studies and the Young Learn-
and a Visiting Professor of the Institute of Overseas Chinese Studies at
er, and Literacy Today and is co-author of Social Studies for a Better
Jinan University. She is the funding and inaugural book series sole Edi-
World: An Anti-Oppressive Approach for Elementary Educators with Katy
tor-in-Chief Asian American Studies Today with Rutgers University Press,
Swalwell and the forthcoming Teaching Asian America in Elementary
on the Editorial Board of Overseas Chinese History Study, the Overseas
Classrooms with Sohyun An and Esther Kim. Before becoming a teacher
Chinese History Research Institution, Beijing, China, and served as the
educator, Noreen was a bilingual elementary teacher in Austin, Texas for
Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS
nine years.
2008-2012). She is also on the Board of Directors of the Chinese Histori-
cal Society of Overseas Chinese Studies, the editorial board of Overseas
Chinese History Studies, and serves as a consultant to the Overseas
Chinese Affairs Office of Guangdong Provincial Government.
A Ford Foundation Prize-winning author, she has authored/edited 34

books and published over 200 articles in Asian American studies, on
immigration and ethnicity, assimilation and adaptation, transnationalism,
family and marriage, employment patterns, and community structures.
She has been featured in PBS, Top China, The World Journal, Chicago
Daily Herald, Dallas Morning News, West End Word, St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, St. Louis Chinese American News, St. Louis Chinese Journal, the
Overseas Chinese World, River Front Times, among others, and appeared
at “Charles Brennan Show” KMOX 1120, “Voice of St. Louis”, KWMU
90.7 (NPR in St. Louis) “St. Louis on the Air”, among others. She has also
been included in many books/encyclopedias on famous Chinese Amer-
icans and authors. She is frequently invited to lecture on Asian cultures
and Asian American experiences at conferences, universities, schools,
libraries, government and private agencies, and community organizations,
nationally and internationally.
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ENGAGED SCHOLAR AWARD MENTORSHIP AWARD

Tracy Lai, Social Sciences Professor, Seattle Central College Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubalesi, Asian American Studies Professor,
College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University
Born and raised in Bay Area, California, Lai has
always seen schools as doors to new opportunities. Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is an Asian American
She completed her undergraduate degree in Third Studies Professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at
World Women’s Literature at Brown University and San Francisco State University. Since 2000, she has
the University of California, Berkeley. There, she taught courses in Asian American Studies focused
became involved in the Asian American studies on Filipina/x/o (American) Studies, women studies,
program and worked as a tutor. Her journey and courses focused on the praxis of Ethnic Studies
continued with a Multicultural Studies master’s pedagogy. She is also an affiliated faculty member in
program at the University of Washington, where she the Educational Leadership. She has taught and
became a teaching assistant, fostering her passion for education. mentored thousands of students, many of whom
are critical master’s and doctoral students, now teaching and working
As a scholar activist, Tracy is a member of national AFT's Civil and Hu- in schools, colleges, and community organizations nationwide. Before
man Rights committee, co-chair of national AFT's Asian American and her position at SFSU, she did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley in
Pacific Islander Task force and Vice President of Seattle APALA. She Ethnic Studies and received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Education. In 2001,
teaches history, ethnic and women's studies at Seattle Central College. she founded Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that
Tracy’s scholarship includes co-authoring a book with Michael Liu and provides Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, develops radical edu-
Kim Geron, The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, cators, and creates resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly
Vision and Power, an analysis of the Asian American movement. She marginalized people. Over the past two decades, she has worked with
also co-authored several articles with APALA members that appear in school districts, counties, and states to co-develop community-rooted
aapi nexus (UCLA journal) on Asian and Pacific Islander workers, as well Ethnic Studies, Social Justice, and Filipino Language curricula. She has
as exposing students to the labor movement through service-learning developed models of teacher development that are being used through-
with union campaigns. Tracy collaborated with Kent Wong, Kim Geron, out California and beyond. She is also the co-founder and director of
Emmelle Israel and Julie Monroe on a history of APALA through oral his- Community Responsive Education (CRE), a national firm that supports
tories: Asian American Workers Rising: APALA's Struggle to Transform the development of responsive, equitable, and justice-driven educators.
the Labor Movement in celebration of APALA's 30th anniversary. She also serves as the curriculum and teacher development director on
UCLA’s Asian American Multimedia Textbook project. She is the author
Tracy Lai is a social sciences professor at Seattle Central College where of four books of curriculum and many articles focused on the applica-
she teaches history, ethnic studies and women’s studies. She was tions of critical pedagogy, Ethnic Studies curriculum, Motherscholarship,
recently awarded the Mellon/ACLS Community College Faculty Fellow- and Pinayism.
ship to research the Wards Cove v. Atonio Supreme Court case and the
struggle of Filipino cannery workers against racism in Alaskan canneries.
Lai is currently co-authoring a chapter on AAPIs and Labor for UCLA's
Foundations and Futures: Asian American and Pacific Islander multime-
dia textbook
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MENTORSHIP AWARD - HONORABLE MENTION and sometime mistress of General Douglas MacArthur. It received an
Association for Asian American Studies Honorable Mention for History in
Dr. Aimee Bahng, Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies,
Pomona College 2023.
Aimee Bahng is an associate professor of Gender She is coeditor, with Hōkūlani K. Aikau, of Detours: A Decolonial Guide
and Women’s Studies at Pomona College. Her book, to Hawai’i (Duke 2019), which curates alternative, place based narra-
Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in tives, art, and itineraries that present a decolonial archive and vision for
Financial Times (Duke University Press, 2018; SFTS life in Hawai’i. Detours now anchors a book series with Duke University
Book Prize 2018), examines narrations of futurity Press, with volumes on Guåhan/Guam, Palestine, Okinawa, Singapore,
across various platforms, from speculative fiction by Korea, the San Francisco Bay Area and other sites in development.
writers of color to the financial speculations of the
1%. A member of the Keywords Feminist Editorial Her first book, Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and
Collective, she co-edited the Keywords for Gender the Philippines (Duke 2013) won the Association for Asian American
and Sexuality Studies (New York University Press 2021), co-authoring Studies book award for the best book in cultural studies published in
the Introduction and the entry on “Race,” as well. She has also co-ed- 2013. In 2016, she co-edited, with Jana K. Lipman and Teresia Teaiwa,
ited with Christine Mok a special issue of Journal of Asian American an American Quarterly special issue on the convergences of tourism
Studies on Transpacific Futurities (20:1, February 2017). Her current and militarism. Her other published work can be found in several col-
teaching and research interests focus on the conjuncture of critical lections, including Tourism Geopolitics (U. Arizona 2021); Making the
environmental justice, US imperialism in the Pacific, and queer-feminist Empire Work (NYU 2015); Mobile Desires (Palgrave 2015); Transnational
science and technology studies. Her second monograph, tentatively Crossroads (U. Nebraska 2012); as well as in journals such as Journal
titled “Settler Environmentalism and Pacific Resurgence,” is currently of Tourism History (2020); Shima (2020); Radical History Review (2017
underway. and 2015); The Journal of Sustainable Tourism (2017); and Critical Ethnic
Studies (2017).
MENTORSHIP AWARD - HONORABLE MENTION She is co-editor of Bangtan Remixed: A Critical BTS Reader, an interdis-
Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Asian ciplinary collection about the K-Pop group BTS with Patty Ahn, Michelle
American and Asian Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley Cho, Rani Neutill, Mimi Thi Nguyen, and Yutian Wong (forthcoming 2024,
Duke) and is at work on a book about hospitality and its discontents.
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Professor of Ethnic
Studies and Asian American and Asian Diaspora
Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She
previously taught at the University of Hawai‘i at
Mānoa and St. Lawrence University. Her areas of
research include studies of tourism and militarism,
transnational cultural studies, feminist theory,
postcolonial studies, and cultural studies with a
focus on Asia and the Pacific. She has a PhD in Eth-
nic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated
Emphasis in Women, Gender and Sexuality.
Her most recent monograph, Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario

Cooper (Duke 2021) is an exploration of the intimacies of imperial geo-
politics through the life story of a mixed-race vaudeville and film actress
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AWARD

Legacy of Equality, Leadership and Organizing
Formerly known as the Northwest Labor and Employment Law Office, In recent years, LELO has shifted from strategic lawsuits to community
LELO was founded in Seattle in 1972 when Black workers from the organizing, political education, and international networking to empower
United Construction Workers Association (UCWA), Asian workers from workers of color and women workers to find and use their own voices.
the Alaska Cannery Workers Association, and Latinx workers from the Consistent with its roots, LELO continues to focus on mobilizing Asian
Northwest Chapter of the United Farmworkers of America came togeth- American communities and forging multiracial and global alliances to
er to work for racial and economic justice. challenge the destructive effects of racial capitalism and US imperialism.
In the 1970s, LELO used the 1964 Civil Rights Act to file class action
lawsuits, in combination with direct action, to empower workers of color
and to support the grassroots organizing of the three founding groups.
LELO’s first lawsuits were launched on behalf of Black construction
workers, led by Tyree Scott and UCWA. Through LELO’s legal action
and grassroots organizing, the number of Black workers in the Seattle
construction trades rose from less than 10 in 1970 to more than 600 by
1979.
With money raised through those legal victories, LELO was able to
launch successful suits on behalf of Asian, Pacific Islander, and Alaska
Native cannery workers and then on behalf of farmworkers and their
right to organize. In conjunction with its litigation work, LELO organized
street protests and direct actions, led by workers of color, to bring atten-
tion and awareness to their struggles for better working conditions and
just treatment.
The assassination of Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes in 1981, two

founding members of LELO’s board, framed the organization’s work in
the 1980s. Evidence demonstrated later that the murders were ordered
by President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines in retaliation for
their work to build alliances and solidarities across the Pacific. LELO
responded by building a broad coalition to hold the Marcos regime ac-
countable. After a long struggle, the Domingo and Viernes families were
awarded $23.5 million in an unprecedented case that found a head of a
foreign government responsible for the assassination of US citizens on
US soil. The families are continuing to investigate the US government’s
role in the murders.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION AWARD

Massage Parlor Outreach Project
Massage Parlor Outreach Project is a grassroots formation of Asian/

Asian American community members organizing to provide support to
migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers
in the Seattle Chinatown/International District and the greater Seattle
area. Its main objective is to build worker power through organizing
and leadership development by connecting workers to local resources,
assisting with language access, and providing political education and
other training to increase community safety and multiracial solidarity.
MPOP centers its work on workers who confront the consequences of
gender-based violence, colonization, and criminalization.
Formed in 2018, MPOP’s founders recognized that many massage par-

lors face hostility from other local businesses. Stigmatized for their work
and alienated from mainstream society by race, gender, and language,
massage parlor workers endured mass raids by the Seattle Police
Department in 2019. In response, MPOP renewed its outreach efforts to
massage parlors in Chinatown/International District by distributing zines
with culturally relevant information about the current political environ-
ment, legal and language support, and mutual aid resources.
Following the tragic shooting in Atlanta targeting Asian spas in March

2021, MPOP held a community vigil in collaboration with local grass-
roots organizers and nonprofits. The tragedy pointed to the need to
expose the ongoing effects of racism, imperialism, and patriarchy in
the working lives of the most vulnerable members of Asian American
communities.
MPOP is currently building new initiatives to increase worker leadership

and power. MPOP seeks to build its vision of safety and dignity for all
massage parlor workers and all gendered care labor, including sex work,
in a manner that is community driven, relationally framed, and culturally
relevant.
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BEST GRADUATE PAPER AURA WINNERS

Loveleen Brar, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Department of
American Culture Chrysanthemum, Providence Poetry Slam
Andy Chan, University of San Francisco
Loveleen Brar (she/her) is a doctoral candidate at the Beth Harrington, Beth Harrington Production
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in the department Vinh Hua, Sông2Sea
of American Culture. She holds an MA degree from Paul Kim, Duke University
the University of California Berkeley in Global Gabbie Mangaser, Burke Musem of Natural History and Culture
Studies, and a BA from the University of California Kathy Nguyen, Sông2Sea
Berkeley in International Development Studies. Her Vian Nguyen, Harvard Graduate School of Education
research focuses on working class diasporas, Saiyare Refaei, Justseeds
feminist approaches to care and reproductive labor, Annie Sing, Bao Bao Somatics
and Asian American religions.
GRADUATE PAPER - HONORABLE MENTION

Linda Luu, New York University
Linda Luu is a PhD candidate in American Studies at

New York University. Their dissertation, "Affective
Empire: Race, Psychology, and Trauma in the
Vietnam War Era," examines how U.S. empire
instrumentalized psychological knowledge to shape
new grammars of racialized gender, victimhood, and
trauma during the Vietnam War era. Linda’s research
and teaching interests lie broadly in U.S. empire and
militarism, biopolitics, affect, embodiment, critical
refugee studies, and feminist science studies. Linda holds a BA in
Sociology from Hunter College, where they also organized for Asian
American studies.
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LIFETIME MEMBERS
Shelley Lee Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
Karin Aguilar-San Juan Donatella Galella Jennifer Lee Nayan Shah
Angelica Allen Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi Marie Myung-Ok Lee Shalini Shankar
Krupal Amin Anna K. Gonzalez Karen J. Leong Nitasha Sharma
Paul Michael L. Atienza Theo Gonzalves Beth Lew-Williams Jeff Sheng
Aimee S. Bahng Jennifer Hayashida Pei-te Lien Chad Shomura
Rick Bonus Alvin Henry Eng-Beng Lim Balbir K. Singh
Kyung-Sook Boo Cheryl Higashida Lori Lopez Davorn Sisavath
Noelle Brada-Williams Jennifer Ho Daryl Maeda Lok Siu
Daniel Bronstein Caroline K. Hong Martin F. Manalansan Christine So
Tracy L. Buenavista Mai-Linh Hong Anita Mannur Min H. Song
Long Bui Madeline Hsu Glenn Morey Anna M. Storti
Faye C. Caronan Chen Brian Hu Norris S. Nagao Stephen C. Suh
John Paul Catungal Peter H. Huang Lisa Nakamura Stephen Sumida
Kenyon S. Chan Shirley Hune Tom Nakayama Erin Suzuki
Juliana Chang Allan P. Isaac William Nessly Amy C. Tang
Edward Chang Douglas S. Ishii Franklin Ng Eric Tang
Floyd Cheung Shangri La Museum of Tu-Uyen Nguyen Francis Tanglao Aguas
Margaret M. Chin Islamic Art, Culture & Viet Nguyen Sonja Thomas
Gabriel J. Chin Design Patricia Nguyen Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
David S. Cho Lynn Itagaki Leilani Nishime Donna Tong
Catherine C. Choy Michele Janette Gail M. Nomura Monica Trieu
Clara M. Chu Russell Jeung Anthony Ocampo Jasmine Ueng-McHale
Brian Su-Jen Chung Kimberly Jew Stella Oh Karen Umemoto
Genevieve Clutario Khyati Y. Joshi Michael Omi Linda T. Vo
Edward Curammeng Simi A. Kang Kent A. Ono Thuy Vo Dang
Sarah P. Dahlen Mimi Khúc Jerry Z. Park Jennifer Wang
Kavita Daiya (she, her) Daniel Kim Kim Park Nelson Marie T. Winkelmann
Mary Yu Danico Barbara Kim Rhacel Parrenas Lia Wolock
Shilpa Dave Heidi Kim Eric J. Pido Janelle S. Wong
Jigna Desai Sue J. Kim JoAnna Poblete Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Pawan Dhingra Elizabeth Kim Greg Robinson Cynthia Wu
Lan Dong Michelle Ko Robyn M. Rodriguez Sunny Yang
Rachel Endo Scott Kurashige David Roh Christine R. Yano
Chris A. Eng Roderick Labrador Roshni Rustomji-Kerns Jennifer A. Yee
Augusto Espiritu Paul Lai Jocyl Sacramento Grace J. Yoo
Tara Fickle Long Le-Khac Mark J. Sanchez Emily K. Yoon
Diane Fujino Josephine Lee Thomas X. Sarmiento Ji-Yeon Yuh
Catherine Fung James K. Lee Jeremiah C. Sataraka
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tions and Divergences: Contemporary Asian American Communities

TENURE-TRACK FACULTY SYMPOSIUM (Temple 2002), The “Other” Students: Filipino Americans, Education, and
Power (Information Age, 2013), Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning,
& MENTORING PROGRAM Reclamation, Transformation (Fordham 2022), as well as several journal
The free symposium will feature in-depth, interactive sessions and will essays and book chapters. His latest book, The Ocean in the School,
pair attendees with a tenured faculty member for a year-long mentoring out of Duke University Press, is based on an ethnography of Pacific
program. Up to 25 pre-tenure faculty across the country will be accept- Islander and other underrepresented students whose college experi-
ed for the symposium. Faculty will also be provided mentoring for 12 ences become generative sites for critiquing and transforming university
months following the conference. schooling. He is currently editor-in-chief of the Journal of Asian Amer-
ican Studies and ALON: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic
Symposium Learning Outcomes: Studies, and is co-editor of the Asian American History and Culture
1. How to support students while also making sufficient time Series at Temple University Press. He earned his PhD in Communication
to advance their research. from the University of California, San Diego.
2. How to manage common department-level challenges, especially
as members of racial, gender, and/or other minoritized Augusto Espiritu was born and raised in the
communities, in the humanities and social sciences across Philippines, went to high school in Los Angeles, and
different institutions. received his Ph.D. in history at UCLA. He have been
3. How to make the most out of their mentoring relationships, in the faculty of the Department of History and Asian
including peer mentoring, led by award-winning mentors. American Studies at the University of Illinois at
4. How to build up Asian American Studies while still focusing on Urbana-Champaign for two decades. He has
their career needs, led by faculty who have built up programs. published two books and many scholarly articles,
taught for an overseas program known as Semester
**The Tenure-Track symposium has been made possible by generous at Sea, led an academic department, and have con-
donations from the Henry Luce Foundation, and from Theodore S. Gon- siderable experience mentoring at all levels.
zalves, Charita L. Castro, and Shirley Hune.
Anita Mannur is professor of English at Miami
Mentors: University and author of Intimate EatingL Racialized
Spaces and Radical Belonging (DUKE UP 2022) and
Rick Bonus is Professor and Chair of American culinary fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic
Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington (UW). Culture (Temple UP 2010). She is a former editor of
He directs UW’s Diversity Minor Program and the JAAS and has edited several collections and has
Oceania and Pacific Islander Studies Minor published in journals including Americna Quarterly,
Program, and is an Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Verge, Melus, Cultural Studies. She is committed to
Southeast Asia and its Diasporas. He is primarily a creating structures of access and equity and has
scholar of American ethnic and Asian American and worked to build structures of mentoring. She is the AAAS 2019 recipient
Filipinx American studies, but he also has strong of the Excellence in Mentoring Award. She is also a part-time indoor
interests in the conjunctions among American stud- cycle/ spin instructor.
ies, Pacific Islander Studies, and Southeast Asian studies, particularly as
they deal with the historical and contemporary phenomena of migration,
transnationalism, interdisciplinary work, and multicultural pedagogy and
mentorship. He is the author of Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity
and the Cultural Politics of Space (Temple 2000), co-editor of Intersec-
Mentors continue on the next page.
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Dina C. Maramba is Professor of Higher Education Karthick Ramakrishnan has served in leadership
in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont roles that span academia, government, public policy,
Graduate University. She also worked in higher and philanthropy. He is currently a professor of
education/student affairs administration in residential public policy at UC Riverside and director of AAPI
life and TRIO Student Support Services. Using Data, a nationally recognized publisher of
critical qualitative methodologies, her research demographic data and policy research on Asian
focuses on equity and social justice in higher Americans and Pacific Islanders. Ramakrishnan has
education and the educational trajectories of published many articles and 7 books, including most
first-generation college students of color and Filip- recently, Citizenship Reimagined (Cambridge, 2020)
inx Americans. Her book publications include Transformative Practices and Framing Immigrants (Russell Sage, 2016), and has written dozens
for minority student success: Accomplishments of Asian American and of opeds and has appeared in nearly 3,000 news stories. Ramakrish-
Native American Pacific Islander serving institutions; The “Other” Stu- nan was named to the Frederick Douglass 200 and is currently working
dents: Filipino Americans, Education and Power. She also published in on projects related to equitable futures and innovative governance. He
the Review of Educational Research, International Journal of Qualitative holds a BA in international relations from Brown University and a PhD in
Studies in Education and Journal of Higher Education. politics from Princeton.
Natalie Masuoka is Associate Professor of Political

Science and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her
research investigates the political consequences
of racial classification in the United States,
specifically how Americans view and define
membership in a racial group. Her book, The Politics
of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion and
Immigration, argues that given the racial foundations
of American identity, one’s position on the racial or-
der informs how an individual makes judgments about immigration pol-
icy. The second book, Multiracial Identification and Racial Politics in the
United States, builds from the bureaucratic decision to allow Americans
to select more than one racial category when answering the racial identi-
fication question on the U.S. Census and other federal forms. Recently,
her research has pivoted to focus on the area of Asian American politics.
One goal is to develop research that speaks to the greater community
by engaging with public policy and community needs. She currently
serves as the Faculty Director for the new Asian American Policy Initia-
tive at the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
Mentors continue on the next page.

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Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales was born and raised Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is professor of History and Asian
on Ohlone land with parents who were immigrants American Studies at the University of California,
from the Philippines--womb (Batangas) and seed Irvine. She also serves as faculty director of the
(Tarlac). She is a distinguished professor in the Humanities Center and Associate Dean in the School
College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State of Humanities of Research, Faculty Development,
University. Since 2000, she’s been teaching Asian and Public Engagement. She is the inaugural director
American Studies focusing on Filipina/x/o of the Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and
(American) Studies. She is also an affiliated faculty Belonging (C-LAB). Her most recent publication is
member in the Educational Leadership. She is Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First
currently the director of curriculum for UCLA’s Foundations and Fu- Woman of Color in Congress (New York University Press, 2022), is a
tures: Asian American and Pacific Islander Multimedia Textbook. In collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink and received the
2024, she was honored with the Wang Family Award, one of the most 2023 Mary Nickliss Prize, which recognizes the best publication in U.S.
prestigious honors faculty can receive in the California State University Women’s/Gender History from the Organization of American Historians.
(CSU) system for her teaching, service, and scholarship. Also, in 2024, Wu also received the 2023 AAAS Excellence in Mentorship Award.
she became an American Educational Research Association Fellow.
She was also featured in this years, Asian Women Are Strong event. Hyung Chol (Brandon) Yoo is an Associate Professor
And just yesterday, she received the announcement that she is being with a joint appointment in the School of Social and
honored with the Association of Asian American Studies Mentorship Family Dynamics (Family and Human Development)
award. She has mentored hundreds of critical undergraduate, master’s, and the School of Social Transformation (Asian
and doctoral students who are now teaching and working in schools, Pacific American Studies) at Arizona State
colleges, and community organizations across the nation. Prior to her University. His background in counseling psychology
position at SFSU, she did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley in frames both his research and teaching interests.
Ethnic Studies and received her Ph.D. from UCLA in Education. In 2001, In particular, he is interested in examining unique
she founded Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that racialized risk and resiliency and their impact on the
provides Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, develops radical edu- mental health of Asian American youth and families. In collaboration with
cators, and creates resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly students and colleagues across disciplines, Yoo has published on topics
marginalized people. She has worked with many educators, schools, of critical consciousness, perceived racism, internalization of the model
and school districts throughout the nation to co-develop curriculum minority myth, acculturation/enculturation, ethnic and racial identity,
and frameworks that center pedagogies rooted in Ethnic Studies, social ethnic and racial socialization, and measurement development. He has
justice, wellness, artivism, praxis, solidarity, and humanization. She is similarly taught and will continue to teach courses related to the mental
also the co-founder and director of Community Responsive Education health issues of racial minorities, including introduction to Asian Pacific
(CRE), a national firm that supports the development of responsive, American Studies, cultural psychology, race and child development, and
equitable, and justice-driven educators. Dr. Tintiangco-Cubales is also a Asian American psychology.
producer for Larry the Musical and the Art of Work Film, both premiering
in 2024. She is the author of many books, articles, and essays focused
on the applications of critical pedagogy, the Ethnic Studies curriculum,
Motherscholarship, and Pinayism. She has also served as an editor for
several anthologies and journals such as At 40: Asian American Stud-
ies, the Journal of Asian American Studies, Asian American and Pacific
Islander Nexus, and co-editor for the Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o
American Studies. Allyson is a loving partner to Val Tintiangco-Cubales,
a phenomenal teacher and leader, and the mother of Mahalaya, a prolific Mentees continue on the next page.
dancer and artist.
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Mentees:
Kavita Kaur Atwal, Cal State University, East Bay

Keva X. Bui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Emma Chen, Western Washington University
Alison Yeh Cheung, California Polytechnic State University, San
Luis Obispo
Chinbo Chong, Northeastern University
Samah Choudhury, Ithaca College
Giselle D. Cunanan, California State University, Sacramento
Amrit P. Deol, California State University, Fresno
Dennis D. Gupa, University of Winnipeg
Hyoseol Ha, Creighton University
Jennifer Huynh, University of Notre Dame
Beth Kopacz, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
Janet Kong-Chow, University of Rhode Island
Samuel H. Kye, Washington University, St. Louis
Carl E. Kubler, Carnegie Mellon University
Michelle Minyoung Lee, Amherst College
Ly Thuy Nguyen, Augsburg University
Catherine H. Nguyen, Emerson College
Ankita Nikalje, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Chulwoo Park, San José State University
Sophea Seng, California State University, Long Beach
Lainey Sevillano, Portland State University
David Shuang Song (宋爽), University of Oklahoma
Dieu M. Truong, Sam Houston State University
Yeng Yang, Hartnell College
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Yến Lê Espiritu is Distinguished Professor of Ethnic

Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
PLENARY SESSIONS Espiritu has served as Department Chair, President
of the Association of Asian American Studies, and
Vice President of the Pacific Sociological
Thursday, April 25th Association. She also has extensive experience
10:00am-11:30am working with refugee and immigrant communities in
Metropolitan A San Diego. An award-winning author and a recipient
of multiple grants, Espiritu has published extensively
on Asian American communities, critical immigration and refugee stud-
T19 Program Committee Plenary: ies, and U.S. colonialism and wars in Asia. A founding member of the
On Disciplinarity and Asian American Studies Critical Refugee Studies Collective (CRSC), Espiritu is the lead author
of Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies (University of
As we have crossed the half century mark of Asian American Studies as California Press, 2022), written collaboratively by CRSC members.
a distinct field of scholarly inquiry, it seems a propitious moment to fo-
cus on the question of disciplinarity: the prominent disciplines that have Eleana Kim is a sociocultural anthropologist with
shaped and centered our knowledges, the disciplines that have been expertise in kinship, migration, war, and militarized
marginalized, and the implications of both. The panelists will explore ecologies. She is Professor of Anthropology and
their thoughts on the origins, trajectory, and/or patterns of Asian Ameri- Asian American Studies at University of California
can Studies. What have been the productive and reductive tensions be- Irvine, and has served as president of the Society for
tween the humanities and the social sciences? What does it mean to be Cultural Anthropology and multiple editorial boards.
an inter-/multi-/trans-disciplinary Asian American Studies scholar now? She is the author of Making Peace with Nature:
What are the implications not just for knowledge but for how we address Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ (Duke
the people and politics on the ground that launched Ethnic and Asian University Press 2022), Adopted Territory: Transna-
American Studies? Should we consider moving towards undisciplining? tional Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke University
We pose these questions to three major figures in the field, all working in Press 2010), and co-editor with David Fedman and Albert Park of Forces
and across different disciplines: the ethnic studies scholar and sociolo- of Nature: New Perspectives on Korean Environments (Cornell University
gist Yến Lê Espiritu, and the anthropologist Eleana Kim. Press 2023).
Moderators:
Nadia Kim, Texas A&M University &
Sameer Pandya, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Thursday, April 25th In the early 1970s, David Della helped organize
the Alaska Cannery Workers Association (ACWA)
1:00pm-2:30pm to fight racial discrimination in the industry and was
Metropolitan Ballroom A active in efforts to reform Local 37. He worked as a
Dispatcher, Contract Negotiator, and eight years
T50 Site Committee Plenary: as Secretary-Treasurer. When Local 37 merged with
the International Boatman’s Union (IBU) to become
Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio - its Legacies Region 37 in 1987, Della became a national
and Asian American Workers Organizing Today organizer with IBU.
The struggles of Asian American workers have shaped the Pacific North-
west and its communities. Tracy Lai will moderate a panel of speakers In summer of 1971, young Asian cannery workers
whose firsthand experiences span 50 years of organizing workers. David at New England Fish Co.’s Uganik Bay Cannery
Della and Nemesio Domingo speak to the organizing of the Alaskan questioned housing conditions, job opportunities,
Cannery Workers Association, modeled on the African American United and choice of eating facilities. They asked
Construction Workers Association. One of the cannery workers cases Nemesio and Silme Domingo to present these
was ultimately decided at the Supreme Court (Wards Cove Packing Co. concerns to the superintendent. At the end of the
v. Atonio, 1989) and reshaped the Civil Rights Act of 1991. J.M. Wong canning season, Nemesio and Silme received
will share the innovative organizing by the local Massage Parlor Organiz- “blacklist’ letters. A grievance meeting ended in a
ing Project (MPOP) one of this year’s AAAS Community Award winners. wild shouting match between the cannery union and
Eunice How represents both UNITE HERE Local 8 (hospitality workers NEFCO administers. The blacklisting remained. The following week,
union) and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. Join us for a rich Nemesio filed a complaint with Equal Employment Opportunity Commis-
conversation on Asian American workers organizing, their issues and sion. This EEOC complaint would give legal standing two years later in
impact. class action litigation against the Alaska canning industry. In the fall of
1972, a dozen young Asian American and Native Alaskan workers from
Tracy Lai teaches history, Ethnic and Women & the Alaska salmon canneries met in the office of the United Construction
Gender Studies at Seattle Central College. Workers Association (UCWA). Silme Domingo and Michael Woo con-
In 2022-23, she received a Mellon/American Council vened this meeting after organizing workers at several Alaskan canner-
of Learned Societies community college fellowship ies. The purpose of this meeting was to organize a Title VII class action
to research “Burden of Proof: Wards Cove v. Atonio, litigation to integrate the cannery work force, integrate the housing and
a Bittersweet Landmark Court Case.” She’s currently eating facilities, and seek compensatory damages.
co-authoring a chapter on Asian American and
Pacific Islander Workers Organizing with Kim Geron
(California State University, East Bay) for UCLA’s
Foundations and Futures Asian American and Pacific Islander multime-
dia textbook.
Panelists continue on the next page.
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J.M. Wong (they/them) is a queer child of the

Chinese diaspora living on Duwamish lands (Seattle)
via Malaysia/Singapore and many cities in between.
They believe in the power, brilliance, and resilience
of the global working class. They are the organizing
director at Puget Sound Sage and core member with
the Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) based
in Chinatown-International District.
Eunice How (she/her) is the president of the Seattle

chapter of APALA, the Asian Pacific American Labor
Alliance, AFL-CIO. She is a lead community and
political organizer in Seattle, Washington
(Duwamish land) at UNITE HERE Local 8, the
hospitality workers’ labor union where she has
worked since 2013. She represents UNITE HERE
on the APALA National Executive Board. She is a
member of University Lutheran Church - Seattle
(ELCA). She earned a Bachelor's degree in Public Health with a minor in
Geography from the University of Washington. She is the proud daugh-
ter of Chinese Malaysians and was raised in Illinois and Singapore.
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Friday, April 26th Diana Johnson is Associate Professor of History and

Ethnic Studies at California State University, San
8:15am-9:45am Bernardino, and the current chair of Ethnic Studies.
Metropolitan A She received her MA and PhD in History from the
University of California Davis. Johnson specializes in
F1 Site Committee Plenary: the history of race and ethnicity in the United States,
political activism, and oral history. She recently
Roundtable: Forging Radical Struggles published her first monograph, Seattle in Coalition:
in Multiracial Seattle Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational
Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999 (University of North Caroli-
Chair/Moderator: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington na Press, 2023).
Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History and the Harry

Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies at the Born in a US concentration camp (Minidoka) and
University of Washington. He is the author of Menace raised in Seattle’s historically Black neighborhood
to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the of Central Area (the CD), Mike Tagawa’s activism
Transpacific Origins of the US Security State began in the antiwar movement of the 1960s. In
(University of California Press, 2022). 1968, he joined the Seattle chapter of the Black
Panther Party, one of three known Japanese
Americans in the organization. Tagawa later became
involved in the Asian American movement,
organizing students at Seattle Central Community
Speakers: College in 1971. For 36 years, he worked as a Metro bus driver in Seattle.
Megan Asaka is Associate Professor of History at

the University of California, Riverside, where she
specializes in Asian American history, urban history,
and public humanities. She is the author of Seattle
from the Margins: Exclusion, Erasure, and the
Making of a Pacific Coast City (University of
Washington Press, 2022), which examines the erased
histories of communities that built Seattle. The book
was inspired by her own family history in Seattle as
well as her work as an archivist and oral historian for Densho, a commu-
nity-based organization that seeks to preserve and share stories of the
wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans.
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Friday, April 26th Panelists:

Celine Parreñas Shimizu, film scholar and filmmaker, is
10:00am-11:30am Dean of the Division of Arts and Distinguished Professor
Metropolitan A of Film and Digital Media at the University of
California at Santa Cruz. She is formerly Professor and
F19 Presidential Plenary: Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco
State University and Professor of Asian American,
From Ethnic Studies to Administration: Feminist and Film and Media Studies at UC Santa
Can We Be the Change to the Institution? Barbara where she was Chair of the Senior Women’s
Council. She was also a Visiting Professor in Film and
Faculty in Asian American Studies have been around long enough to now be Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz in 2013. Sole-authored books include The
appointed to major positions of authority within their institutions, whether as Movies of Racial Childhoods (Duke, 2024), The Proximity of Other Skins
presidents, deans, chairs of campus-wide committees, or otherwise. At the (Oxford, 2020), Straitjacket Sexualities (Stanford, 2012), and The Hypersex-
same time, others turn down such opportunities, believing that such positions uality of Race (Duke, 2007) which won Best Book in Cultural Studies from
make us co-opted by the neoliberal academy. What change can Asian Amer- the Association for Asian American Studies in 2009. She co-edited The
ican Studies faculty make in higher education? Is this a pathway to pursue Feminist Porn Book (The Feminist Press, 2013) and The Unwatchability
or avoid for ethnic studies faculty? We will be joined by three panelists and a of Whiteness (Brill, 2018). Her recent films The Celine Archive (2020), won
moderator who, grounded in ethnic studies, have taken on different types of several festival awards and 80 Years Later: On Japanese American Racial
administrative duties in diverse institutions. Inheritance (2022) screened at 50 film festivals and won 15 awards for best
historical documentary or excellence in directing awards. Both are distribut-
Chair/Moderator: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College ed by Women Make Movies.
Pawan Dhingra is Associate Provost and Associate Dean of She has served as a reviewer for the Ford Foundation and the National En-
the Faculty and the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank ’55 Professor dowment for the Humanities. Her numerous peer-reviewed articles appear
of U.S. Immigration Studies, at Amherst College. He is in top journals in the fields of cinema, performance, ethnic, feminist, sexuali-
president of the Association for Asian American Studies. He ty studies, and transnational popular culture in Asia and Asian America. She
researches and teaches on racial capitalism, white is formerly Associate Editor of Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ), founding
supremacy, immigration, and education. Dhingra co-curated USA editor of Asian Diasporas and Visual Cultures of the Americas and
the Smithsonian Institution exhibition, Beyond Bollywood: Asian Indian Ameri- Associate Editor of Women Studies International Forum.
cans Shape the Nation. He is a former president of the board of the South Asian
American Digital Archive. His byline includes The New York Times, CNN, Time Her research and creative activity have received support from the Motion
Magazine, The Conversation, and many other venues, and he and his work have Picture Association of America, the Social Science Research Council, the
been profiled in The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Times of India, and James Pendleton Foundation, and the Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund.
elsewhere. His most recent monograph is the award-winning Hyper Education: She has additionally received fellowships from the United States Studies
Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are Not Enough (New Centre at the University of Sydney and the Research Institute for Compar-
York University Press 2020), which author Min Jin Lee has said, "gets to the root ative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford. In 2022-23, she won the
of education obsessions." He speaks from this work in the Netflix documentary, Excellence in Mentorship Award from the Association for Asian American
Spelling the Dream. He is the author of the multiple award-winning Life Behind Studies. She received her Ph.D. in Modern Thought and Literature from
the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream (Stanford Stanford University, her M.F.A. in Film Directing and Production from UCLA
University Press, 2012). He also wrote the award-winning Managing Multicultur- School of Theater, Film and Television and her B.A. in Ethnic Studies from
al Lives: Asian American Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities U.C. Berkeley.
(Stanford University Press, 2007). Dhingra co-authored with Robyn Rodriguez
Asian America, which is in its second edition (Polity Press, 2014 and 2021) and Panelists continue on the next page.
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American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (New York University Press, 2023).
Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and Dylan has written for a wide variety of scholarly and popular venues, includ-
collaborator who has maintained a day job as a ing Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Harvard Law Review, American Quar-
Professor at the University of California-Riverside since terly, Social Text, and Radical History Review. He has appeared in dozens
2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created of podcasts, live interviews, experimental media projects, and livestreams
Department of Black Study as well as the Department including Huffington Post Live, The Real News, “Beyond Prisons,” “iMix-
of Media and Cultural Studies. Dylan served as Chair WhatiLike,” “This Is Revolution,” “In the Black Podcast,” “Millennials Are
of the Department of Ethnic Studies from 2009-2016, Killing Capitalism,” and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, among
Chair of the UCR Academic Senate from 2016-2020, others.
and has worked as the Co-Director of the UCR Center Most importantly, Dylan believes in the right—in fact, the obligation—of
for Ideas and Society since 2021. As the Co-Director of the Center, he cre- occupied, colonized, and incarcerated peoples to fight for their liberation
ated the Decolonizing Humanism(?) programming stream, which features against external oppressors as well as internal reactionaries, and the parallel
scholars, artists, and intellectuals based in revolutionary, anti-colonial, and responsibility of those who profess solidarity to take all necessary measures
liberationist movements from all over the world. Dylan was elected Presi- to protect, defend, and advance liberation struggle, whatever forms it may
dent of the American Studies Association by his peers in 2020, the same take.
year in which he was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars,
a national award program that intends to “recognize the role that Freedom
Scholars play in cultivating and nurturing movements for justice and free- Floyd Cheung guides the development and
dom.” administration of all equity- and inclusion-related
initiatives and programs at Smith. Among his
Dylan’s lifework focuses on liberationist, anticolonial, and abolitionist con- responsibilities are multicultural affairs, religious and
frontations with the antiblack, colonial, and white supremacist violences spiritual life, equal opportunity and Title IX compliance,
that permeate the ongoing Civilization project. He is devoted to studying and the recruitment and retention of a diverse faculty,
and teaching the historical, collective genius of rebellion, survival, and in- staff and student body. A professor of English language
surgent futurity that radically challenge dominant forms of authority, power, and literature and American studies, Cheung was the
and institutionality. founding chair of the Five College Asian/Pacific/Ameri-
can Studies Certificate Program. He most recently served as faculty director
Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of orga- of the Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning.
nizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies
Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR
Department of Black Study, among others. He has worked closely with
Southern California Library, Critical Resistance Abolitionist Educators, Strike
MoMA, Underground Scholars Initiative, Dissenters, and numerous other
organizations and collectives. He is the author of three books, Forced Pas-
sages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime (Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 2006), Suspended Apocalypse: White Supremacy,
Genocide, and the Filipino Condition (University of Minnesota Press, 2009),
and most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic
of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021) which won the 2022
Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
He is a co-editor of the field shaping text Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader
(Duke University Press, 2016).
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Friday, April 26th Friday, April 26th

11:45am-12:45pm 4:30pm-6:00pm
Ravenna B Metropolitan A
F41 President Session: F83 Executive Board Plenary:

How to Publish Palestine and the Work of Solidarity
in Asian American Studies
Some of the discussion topics we would like to cover are as follows:
how members can get published, the steps they should be taking, net- This plenary will address the tensions between Palestine as a site of
working opportunities, and how to reach out to publishers. theoretical speculation, silence, and solidarity within Asian American
Studies. We ended 2023 and began 2024 as worldwide witnesses to the
Moderator: Pawan Dhingra, Amhurst College Israeli state’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. US taxpayers have
also acted as genocide’s collaborators. Meanwhile, those of us in the
Rahne Alexander is the Senior Publicist for the academy who have mobilized our expertise, platforms, and classrooms
Journals Division of Hopkins Press, and an to contextualize settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing in historic
intermedia artist and writer based in Baltimore, Palestine have been met with a concerted campaign of repression,
Maryland. orchestrated by private and state actors. This moment is not historically
unique, yet it is also particular. On the one hand, Cold War and War on
Terror policies have contributed to the silencing of Palestinian speech
within the academy. On the other hand, disciplines like Asian Ameri-
can Studies have increasingly commodified Palestine into an object of
theoretical speculation—even as Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim scholars
Melany De La Cruz Viesca is the Deputy Director of are disproportionately targeted in the academy and even as pro-Pal-
the UCLA Asian American Studies Center and estine student activists face retribution and arrest. At this conjuncture,
Managing Editor of the AAPI Nexus Journal: Policy, we revisit the question of solidarity as a disciplinary genealogy, material
Practice and Community. AAPI Nexus is a national praxis, and unfinished work of Ethnic Studies. We turn to Palestine as
journal that draws from professional schools and one node or barometer for the future viability, if any, of Asian American,
applied social science scholars as well as Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies. Panelists will collectively discuss: What
practitioners and public policy advocates with the is Palestine—as a peopled place and a transnational political para-
goal of reinvigorating Asian American Studies’ digm—to Asian American Studies? When Asian Americanists repeatedly
mission of serving communities and generating cite Edward Said’s Orientalism, what historical conditions of intellectual
practical research. production do we invoke or belie? What does solidarity mean in the
context of ongoing genocide? Under gendered, racialized, and classed
Shaun Vigil is Acquisitions Editor for Humanities and forms of academic precarity and the policing of our campuses, how
Cultural Studies at Temple University Press. Shaun's might we re-orient student protection and academic freedom toward
list focuses range from Critical Ethnic Studies to collective projects? Our panelists include scholar-activists working
Critical Disability Studies, American Studies to between Asian American, Arab American, Critical Muslim, and Pales-
Queer Studies. At the Press, Shaun has the pleasure tine Studies. This plenary is convened by the SWANA Diaspora Studies
of stewarding such field-defining series as Asian section of the AAAS.
American History and Culture; Critical Race,
Indigeneity, and Relationality; Dis/color; and Sexuality Discussants and Panelists continue on the next page.
Studies.
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Discussants: Umayyah Cable (they/them/their) is assistant

professor of American culture and film, television,
Amira Jarmakani, she/they, is Professor of Women’s, and media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty Their research and teaching interests span the fields
with the Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies and of race and ethnic studies, film and media studies,
LGBTQ+ studies at San Diego State University. Her anti-colonial studies, and queer theory, with a
most recent book, An Imperialist Love Story: Desert particular focus on the roles that art, film, and media
Romances and the War on Terror (NYU Press 2015), play in the mobilization of Palestine solidarity politics
explores the crucial role of desire in understanding in the United States. Their research has been supported
how the war on terror works and how it perseveres. through fellowships at Northwestern University and Harvard University.
She also authored Imagining Arab Womanhood: The
Cultural Mythology of Veils, Harems, and Belly Dancers in the U.S.(Pal- Dana M. Olwan is Associate Professor of Women’s
grave Macmillan 2008), which won the National Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Syracuse University where
Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize. She is co-editor, with Pauline she is also affiliated with the Middle Eastern Studies
Homsi Vinson and Louise Cainkar, of Sajjilu Arab American: A Reader in and Native American and Indigenous Studies
SWANA Studies (Syracuse University Press, 2022) and a Series Advisor programs. Her work is located at the nexus of
for the Critical Arab American Studies Series with Syracuse Universi- feminist theorizations of gender, transnational
ty Press. She has served as president of the Arab American Studies solidarities, and critical feminist pedagogies and has
Association (2018-2022), board member for the Association of Middle appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
East Women’s Studies (2017-2019) and Assistant Editor for the Encyclo- Society, Feminist Formations, the Journal of Settler Co-
pedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (2011-2013). She is an organizer lonial Studies, and Feral Feminisms. Her first book Gender Violence and The
with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and a member of the Palestinian Transnational Politics of the Honor Crime was published by the Ohio State
Feminist Collective. University Press in 2021. With Carol Fadda, she is currently working on the
Black Arab Relationalities Initiative, a three-year project funded by a Mellon
Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary scholar of race, Foundation Higher Learning Open Grant, focusing on experiences of racism
gender, sexuality, and Islam in/and the United States, and discrimination and histories of solidarity between Arab and Black com-
working at the intersection of politics, aesthetics, and munities in Syracuse, New York. She serves as an Associate Editor of the
critical theory. Her research uses cultural politics to Encyclopedia of Muslim Women and Cultures (published by Brill). She is a
study the gendered and sexual governance of race member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and co-founding member of
and religion in the US and its empire in the 20th and Faculty for Palestine at Syracuse University.
21st centuries, with particular interest in the global
war on terror. Some of her more recent writing is
available or forthcoming in American Quarterly, The
Immanent Frame, The AMP, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the
anthology Cultural Studies in the Interregnum. She is currently a Society
of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University, formerly a Mel-
lon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College, and received her PhD in
American Studies at Yale University.
Panelists continue on the next page.
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Lila Sharif is a creative writer, researcher, and

assistant professor at the School of Social
Transformation at Arizona State University. She is Saturday, April 27th
currently writing a book about the ways in which fair 8:15am-9:45am
trade economies, settler colonialism, environmental Virginia
destruction, and storytelling converge at Palestine's
historic olive tree, which has been harvested by
Palestinians for over 6,000 years. Sharif develops S1 Board Plenary:
the concept of Vanishment to critique global racial The Role of Asian American Studies
capitalism and settler colonialism. in K-12 Education
Sharif researches and publishes articles, essays, and poetry in various ac-
ademic and public journals on the topics of Palestinian food and environ- In recent years, conservative organizations and officials have attacked
ments, Palestinian Indigenous epistemologies, global feminisms, critical critical race theory and denounced what they have deemed its focus
refugee studies, and ethnic and racial studies. She co-authored the book on racial difference over universalism and its espousal of anti-American
Departures (UC Press, 2022), with the Critical Refugee Studies Collective beliefs. In these characterizations, critical race theory circulates as an
and is working on its sequel. She is also co-editing A Decolonial Guide- ill-defined and amorphous entity, a rallying point for organizing attacks
book to Historic Palestine with Jennifer Kelly and Somdeep Sen and against “wokeness.” As a result, efforts to ban critical race theory in
Sage's Encyclopedia of Critical Refugee Studies with the Critical Refugee K-12 education have spread across the country and become increas-
Studies Collective. She is a co-founding member of the Critical Refu- ingly politicized in electoral politics, school board meetings, and other
gee Studies Collective as well as a founding member of the Palestinian public forums. In May of this year, however, Florida Governor Ron De-
Feminist Collective. Sharif is the first Palestinian to earn a Ph.D. in ethnic Santis signed a law that mandated the inclusion of Asian American and
studies which she holds simultaneously with a PhD in Sociology. Pacific Islander studies into K-12 curriculum, coinciding with another
bill that aimed to ban public colleges from spending money on diversity,
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali is a queer Palestinian equity, and inclusion efforts and limit the way that race and gender is
poet and an associate professor in Gender, Women’s, taught in higher education. This roundtable gathers scholars, organizers,
and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland and community members to reflect upon recent debates about critical
Baltimore County. Her poetry can be read in Copper race theory through the lens of Asian American studies. What is the role
Nickel, Tinderbox, Diode Press, The Pinch Journal, of Asian American studies in K-12 education, and how have educators
Mizna, and elsewhere. She has published articles in incorporated Asian American studies in the K-12 classroom? What can
Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US, the Journal of we make of the incorporation of Asian American studies and the si-
Middle East Women’s Studies, and several edited multaneous attack on critical race theory, African American and Black
collections. Her first book, Between Banat: Queer Arab studies, and queer and trans studies in places like Florida and Virginia?
Critique and Transnational Arab Archives is available from Duke University Understanding the challenges we face and the practical application of
Press. Her chapbook agriculture of grief: prayers for my father’s dementia our field to real world conditions, the roundtable will explore the strate-
is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press (August 2024). During the 23-34 gies, structures, resources, and narratives needed to counter the current
academic year, she is in residence as a fellow at Cornell’s Society for the backlash.
Humanities working on her second project, Palestine Matters.
Chair and Panelists continue on the next page.
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Karen Umemoto is a professor in the departments

Chair/Moderator: Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies and
is the inaugural Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed
Jason Oliver Chang, born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is an Director’s Chair of the Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Center. Professor Umemoto received her Ph.D. in
Studies. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Urban Studies from Massachusetts Institute of
Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Technology and holds a M.A. in Asian American
Berkeley in 2010. While there he received research Studies from UCLA and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary
support from the Center for Race and Gender, the Social Science from San Francisco State University.
Historical Society of Southern California, the Chiang
Ching-Kuo Foundation, and several UC offices. Devin Israel Cabanilla’s core AAPI history work is
Before coming to UConn, Dr. Chang was a Lecturer for done regularly with Filipino American National
the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Historical Society Greater Seattle Chapter and
Dr. Chang also holds a Masters of Public Policy and Administration from the engages in community building with Filipinotown
University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he focused on the enforce- Seattle. He is a frequent speaker on Asian Pacific
ment of immigration law at the U.S.-Mexico border. American issues, and organizes public events
around ethnic history and social justice. His graduate
Panelists: work was around International Community
Development and Business Administration.
William Gow is a California-based community
historian, educator, and documentary filmmaker. Virginia Nguyen, a dedicated K-12 educator from
A fourth-generation Chinese American and a proud Irvine, CA, is committed to cultivating just and
graduate of the San Francisco Unified School liberated school communities while advocating for
District, he holds an M.A. in Asian American Studies educational equity nationwide. As a co-founder of
from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies with a Educate to Empower and a member of the founding
designated emphasis in Film Studies from UC committee of the annual Teaching for Justice
Berkeley. Before joining the faculty at Sacramento Conference, she brings a transformative approach to
State, he taught Asian American Studies courses at her work. This conference has successfully brought
Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. together educators, students, and community
members to uplift and amplify AAPI voices in K-12 education. Drawing
Dr. Virginia Loh-Hagan has written over 400 books, inspiration from her Vietnamese heritage, Virginia shares strategies for
including A is for Asian American and Popo’s Lucky bridging communities to support K-12 students and empowering educa-
Chinese New Year. She is a former elementary school tors to create inclusive classrooms.
teacher and currently teaches at San Diego State
University where she directs the Asian Pacific
Islander Desi American (APIDA) Center. She writes
about many topics, but especially likes to write about
powerful women and her Asian American heritage.
She lives in San Diego with her family and two dogs.
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Saturday, April 27th Panelists:

Kshama Sawant, PhD, is a socialist economist and
10:00am-11:30am activist who was a member of the Seattle City
Metropolitan A Council from 2014-2024. During her tenure she
passed landmark legislation, including passing a $15
S19 Presidential Plenary: minimum wage, legal protection against caste
discrimination among many other political victories.
Examining Anti-Caste Reform in Revolutionary Times She has a long track record advocating for
oppressed and marginalized community members
In this talk, we will discuss Kshama Sawant's organizing work that led
in Seattle and beyond.
to the successful passage granting caste as a protected category in
Seattle. We will discuss the campaign, Sawant's political and organizing
Rishi Guné, MA (they, them, theirs) is a Ph.D. student
philosophy, the potential and limitations of legal reform, and the place of
at the University of California, Irvine, in the Culture
the academy in a larger fight against global exploitation and oppression.
and Theory program. Their work examines how caste
tethers to US imperialism as manifested through
Chair/Moderator: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
gender, race, sexuality, and class. Before starting
their Ph.D. program, they taught at multiple
Pawan Dhingra is Associate Provost and Associate
universities around the country.
Dean of the Faculty and the Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank
’55 Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, at Amherst
College. He is president of the Association for Asian
American Studies. Dhingra co-curated the Smithsonian
Institution exhibition, Beyond Bollywood: Asian Indian
Americans Shape the Nation. His byline includes The
New York Times, CNN, Time Magazine, The
Conversation, and many other venues, and he and
his work have been profiled in The Washington Post, NPR, The Guard-
ian, Times of India, and elsewhere. His most recent monograph is Hyper
Education: Why Good Schools, Good Grades, and Good Behavior Are
Not Enough (New York University Press 2020), which author Min Jin Lee
has said, "gets to the root of education obsessions." He speaks from this
work in the Netflix documentary, Spelling the Dream. He is the author of
the multiple award-winning Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel
Owners and the American Dream (Stanford University Press, 2012). He also
wrote the award-winning Managing Multicultural Lives: Asian American
Professionals and the Challenge of Multiple Identities (Stanford University
Press, 2007). Dhingra co-authored Asian America: Sociological and Inter-
disciplinary Perspectives, which is in its second edition (Polity Press, 2014
and 2021) and co-edited the forthcoming, Disciplinary Futures: Sociology
in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies (New York
University Press, 2023).
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Panelists:
MENTORSHIP PANELS Pawan Dhingra, Associate Provost and Associate

Dean of the Faculty; Aliki Perroti and Seth Frank '55
Professor of U.S. Immigration Studies, in American
Thursday, April 25th Studies and AAPI Studies, Amherst College;
4:30pm-6:00pm President of the Association of Asian American
Metropolitan A Studies
Preparing for Tenure & Promotion
This panel will feature senior and recently tenured faculty members
Elliott H. Powell, Beverly and Richard Fink Professor
who will share their experience and advice for preparing for tenure and
in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of American
promotion spanning different kinds of institutional contexts: teaching
Studies and Asian American Studies, the University
focused institutions such as small liberal arts colleges and Research 1
of Minnesota
universities. The panel will also discuss strategies you can employ early
on in the tenure track and during time when one stands for tenure. A
focus will be placed on how to prepare a strong dossier as an interdis-
ciplinary scholar and as a more disciplinary-focused scholar; on how to
speak compellingly and meaningfully about teaching; and aspects of the
process panelists wish they had known now on the other side. The panel
will focus on relatively brief comments to leave time for Q&A.
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Associate Professor of
Asian American Studies, the University of California,
Chair:
Los Angeles
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Associate Professor
of English, Spanish, and Asian American and Pacific
Islander American Studies; Chair of Latinx and Latin
American Studies, Amherst College
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Saturday, April 27th Martin F. Manalansan, Professor of Women’s,

Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University,
1:00pm-2:30pm New Brunswick; president-elect of the Association
Ballard for Asian American Studies
Preparing for the Job Market
This panel will feature speakers who have successfully and, in some
cases, who have recently navigated the job market. This panel is geared
toward those that might be curious or interested in tenure track po-
sitions. Panelists will speak about their experiences preparing appli- Stef Torralba, Visiting Assistant Professor of English,
cations for, interviewing at, and campus visit interviews at a variety of Pomona College; incoming Assistant Professor of
institutional contexts such as small liberal arts colleges and research English at Grinnell College
universities. They will also speak as interdisciplinary scholars that have
had to prepare for interviews in a variety of different fields. Panelists may
also share their experiences moving from institutions if there is strong
interest. This panel will focus on relatively short presentations and com-
ments in order to leave time for Q&A.
Chair:
Sony Coráñez Bolton, Associate Professor

of English, Spanish, and Asian American and Pacific
Islander American Studies; Chair of Latinx and Latin
American Studies, Amherst College
Panelists:
Ava L J Kim, Assistant Professor of Gender,

Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of
California, Davis
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SECTION MEETINGS GRADUATE STUDENT SESSIONS

Thursday, April 25th Meet The Professor
11:45am-12:45pm Metropolitan Ballroom A
SC1 Asian Settler Colonialism
(Metropolitan Ballroom A) The meet the professor's individual sessions will happen throughout the
conference. All individuals who have set up individual meetings with a
SC2 Ending the Korean War
professor will meet in the Metropolitan Ballroom A and move to another
(Ballard) Friday, April 26th location within the conference hotel.
SC3 Southeast Asian 11:45am-12:45pm
(Capitol Hill) SC5 Asian American Feminisms
(Metropolitan Ballroom A)
SC4 K-12
SC6 Critical Adoption Studies
(Issaquah A) Friday, April 26th
(Ballard)
2:45pm-4:15pm
SC7 History Ballard
(Capitol Hill)
SC8 Hmong
The Tea Room
(Greenwood)
Come for snacks and stay for tea. Attending an academic conference
SC9 South Asian can be intimidating especially if you don't know anyone or are the sole
(Issaquah A) representative from your institution. Please join us for light refreshments
Saturday, April 27th and meet some folx. Let's build community.
SC10 Comfort Women
11:45am-12:45pm (Issaquah B) This event is made possible with the support of the Association for Asian
SC14 East of California (EOC)
(Metropolitan Ballroom) American Studies and the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Asian
SC11 CHALIS American Studies Program.
(Kirkland)
SC15 Queer Studies
(Ballard) SC12 Religion
(Leschi)
SC16 Critical Mixed
(Greenwood) SC13 Social Sciences Studies
(Medina)
SC17 SWANA
(Issaquah A)
SC18 Filipinx & Filipinx American

(Issaquah B)
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TOURS TOURS
Seattle’s Chinatown-International District - Guided Tour Volunteer Park and Lakeview Cemetery - Guided Tour
Meeting Location: Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Meeting Location: Lobby of the Sheraton Grand Seattle
American Experience (Theater) 1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
719 South King St. Seattle, WA 98104 Date: Thursday, April 25th, 2024
Date: Friday, April 26th, 2024 Time: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Ticket Price: $20
Ticket Price: $20 Cost: Shared transportation to Capitol Hill and admission tickets
Limit: 25 people (optional) to the Seattle Asian Art Museum and the Conservatory.
Transportation: Participants are kindly advised to arrange their Limit: 25 people
own transportation to and from the museum. Light rail Transportation: Connie So will update registrants on the mode of
(International District/Chinatown station) will take you to within transportation (bus or shared rides).
easy walking distance of the museum. Head Guide: Connie So, American Ethnic Studies, University of
Head Guide: Rahul K. Gupta, Director of Education and Tours, Washington
Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience
The tour will begin at Volunteer Park, created originally in “honor” of the
In an ever-changing neighborhood, Seattle’s Chinatown-International Dis- volunteers for the Spanish-American War. While the placard honoring the
trict offers a chance to understand the relationship between ethnic commu- veterans is gone, the sites nearby are significant in their own right. We will
nities and their environments, including the challenges of early immigrants begin at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, which holds historical and con-
to build and transform their surroundings. Through Nihonmachi, Chinatown temporary artworks from China, Korea, Japan, India, the Himalayas, and
and Little Saigon, we will explore the stories of migrant laborers, founding Southeast Asia. We will then stop by Isamu Noguchi’s “Black (Hole) Sun”
businesses, women leaders, political activists, innovative artists and musi- sculpture made famous by the local Seattle grunge band, Soundgarden,
cians, and more. and the Conservatory. We will conclude the tour at Lakeview Cemetery,
Seattle’s number one tourist destination where Bruce Lee and Brandon
The tour will include stops at Canton Alley, Eastern Hotel (with Cindy Do- Lee are buried.
mingo), Chiyo’s Garden, NP Hotel, Massage Parlor Outreach Project (with
Ching-In Chen), and Hing Hay Park. Notably, April is the month of Qing Ming aka Tomb Sweeping Day (April
4, 2024). As we visit Lakeview Cemetery, we will see many flowers deco-
rating the graves of the Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Mien, among other
Asian American groups. Along with Bruce and Brandon Lee, Lakeview
Cemetery is the final resting place of Goon Dip (Chinese American pioneer,
entrepreneur, and Chinese Consul to Seattle), Princess Angeline (daughter
of Chief Sealth), the Denny Party (credited with Anglo settlement of Seattle),
among other prominent Seattleites.
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TOURS TOURS
University of Washington Seattle Campus - Guided Tour Tacoma Nihongo Gakko to Northwest Detention Center:
Remembrance & Resistance
Meeting Location: Lobby of the Sheraton Grand Seattle
1400 6th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101 Meeting Location: Japanese Language School Memorial,
Date: Saturday, April 27th, 2024 S 17th Street and Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Date: Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Ticket Price: $10 Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Additional Cost: Public transportation to UW and admission fee Ticket Price: $15
to the Burke Museum (optional). Transportation: On your own
Limit: 25 people
Transportation: Participants will meet in the hotel lobby and walk Join Tsuru for Solidarity and La Resistencia on Sunday, April 28, for a
to take light rail to the UW campus. Remembrance Program and Resistance March from the Nihongo Gakko
Head Guide: Connie So, American Ethnic Studies, Memorial to Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) tracing a path of remov-
University of Washington al and resistance from past to present. The Nihongo Gakko (Japanese
Language School) served a thriving Japanese community in Tacoma until
Connie So and UW students will lead a tour of the WWII, when the U.S. government ordered the removal of all Japanese
University of Washington, including stops at: Americans on the West Coast to detention camps. A memorial to Nihongo
• Ethnic Cultural Center Gakko and this sad history was dedicated on the site in 2014. Since 2004,
• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) has used NWDC, just one mile
• Husky Union Building, featuring artwork north of the Nihongo Gakko Memorial, as a detention camp for migrants
• “Bruce Lee Ascending,” Odegaard Undergraduate Library awaiting removal orders.
• Henry Art Gallery
• Husky Football Stadium and the waterfront. #FreeThemAll
https://www.tacoma.uw.edu/news/remembering-tacomas-nihongo-gakko
https://tsuruforsolidarity.org/
https://laresistencianw.org/
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TOURS 2024 EXHIBITORS

Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) The following presses and organizations will be exhibiting and selling
National Pinoy Archives Guided Tour books and media material and providing information about their
organizations:
Tour Location: Filipino American National Historical Society
(FANHS), in the historic Immaculate Conception School Building, APIA Vote
810 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122. Ring the front doorbell to enter Asian American Studies Center Asian and Pacific Islander,
and take stairs to the basement level. (Please contact Emily University of California, Los Angeles
Lawsin (206) 477-3110 by April 19 if you require an accessible
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO
entrance or have severe food allergies.)
Date: Friday, April 26th, 2024 Duke University Press
Time: 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM Johns Hopkins University Press
Ticket Price: $35 (includes merienda/light refreshments) Kaya Press
Limit: 25 people Mimi Khúc
Transportation: Participants are kindly advised to arrange their Real Sould
own transportation to and from Filipino American National
Rutgers University Press
Historical Society (FANHS), 810 18th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122.
(King County Metro Buses #2 and #3 stop three blocks from South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)
FANHS. Or to share a taxi or ride, you can meet each other out Temple University Press
side the Sheraton Lobby Entrance and leave by 11:15 AM.) Texas Tech University Press
Head Guide: Emily P. Lawsin, 4Culture Historic Preservation Third World Newsreel
Program Manager and FANHS National President Emerita University of Washington Press
Meet and eat merienda/snacks with the 92-year-old Founder/Executive
Director of the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS), Dr. On-Site Exhibitors Hours:
Dorothy Laigo Cordova, plus National Treasurer, Maria Batayola, National Thursday, April 25th 8:30am-5:00pm
President Emerita Emily P. Lawsin, and other local volunteers, as you tour Friday, April 26th 8:30am-5:00pm
the FANHS National Office and National Pinoy Archives (NPA), located on Saturday, April 27th 8:30am-12:00pm
the basement level of the historic Immaculate Conception School in the
Central District of Seattle. Since its founding in 1982, through its all-volun-
teer-run National Office, archives, Museum, biennial conferences, Filipino
American History Month observances, Journal, and 43 chapters across the
country, FANHS collects, preserves, and shares historical records of Filipino
Americans, including primary resource materials such as newspaper and
magazine clippings, publications, research reports, oral history interviews,
photographs, political signs, and more. (Since the pandemic, FANHS is
open by appointment and masks are encouraged.) Learn more about
FANHS at www.fanhs-national.org or follow FANHS National on Facebook
or Instagram: @fanhs_national.
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RECEPTIONS RECEPTIONS
Thursday, April 25th Friday, April 26th
7:30am-8:45am 8:00pm-9:30pm
Morning Coffee Break Café, Olé!
(Exhibit Area Pre-Function) (Ballard)
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins University Press (JHUP)
Kundiman, Kaya Press, and AAAS present the inaugural AAAS Lit Cafe,
6:00pm-7:30pm a meeting place for Asian American literature and Asian American
New Books Reception Studies. Featuring Susan Lieu, Jenny Liou, and Mimi Khúc in
(Metropolitan Ballroom Pre-Function) conversation about Asian American parents and daughters, plus
Sponsored by Amherst University multimedia by artists Jess X. Snow and Cathy Linh Che.
Come early for drink and food and literary lounging! Special thanks to
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis for organizing this inaugural event.
Friday, April 26th
7:30am-8:45am This event is sponsored by APIAVote and is free and open to the public.
Morning Coffee Break
(Exhibit Area Pre-Function)
Saturday, April 27th
7:30am-8:45am
Morning Coffee Break
2:45pm-4:15pm (Exhibit Area Pre-Function)
The Tea Room
(Ballard)
First-time attendees, undergraduates, graduates, and contingent faculty
come for snacks and stay for tea. Attending an academic conference 5:30pm-7:00pm
can be intimidating especially if you don’t know anyone or the sole Awards Reception
representative from your institution. Please join us for light refreshments (Metropolitan Ballroom Pre-Function)
and meet some folx. Let's build community.
Sponsored by Association for Asian American Studies and the

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Asian American Studies Program.
6:30pm-7:30pm
Franklin Odo: Flâneur of Asian American History,
by Garrett Hongo
(Ballard)
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CALL FOR PAPERS 2025

As we converge on Boston in April 2025, how might we, for example, think of
Re-Orienting Asian American Studies in a Time the eastern seaboard, and indeed the Atlantic and Caribbean world as central
of Resurgent Ethnonationalism and Fascism to the field? How might a “yellow/brown atlantic” approach shift some of
Boston, Massachusetts our long-standing narratives and broaden our engagement with the western
April 2025 hemisphere and the world? How can the consideration of Asian American
“others” --particularly those East of California grow our understanding of
The Association for Asian American Studies(AAAS) was the first such Asian American history and who is a part of it?
association to commit to the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement,
in 2013, and it endorsed a statement of Solidarity with Palestine ten years We invite Asian American Studies practitioners, scholars, teachers, artists,
later, in 2023. In line with this commitment, for our 2025 annual conference in activists and beyond to engage broadly with the theme of re-orienting, from
Boston, Massachusetts, we invite proposals that re-orient the field of Asian their various fields, disciplines and areas of expertise including, but not
American Studies: in terms of the place of South West Asian North African limited to:
(SWANA), Muslim and Arab Americans in the field, in relation to the violence
of the U.S. settler state, and in consideration of the geographical, temporal, • Transnational and Transimperial
and cultural margins and mainstreams of the discipline. • Militarism and the settler state
• Critical pedagogies of tourism
As many scholars in Asian American studies have aptly pointed out in the • Indigeneity and the nation state
past six months, the field of Asian American Studies stands on the shoulders • Global indigeneity
of Palestinian scholar Edward Said’s pathbreaking work, Orientalism. Though • Kinship across borders
early Asian American Studies scholars understood Orientalism through the • Women, gender and sexuality
geography of East Asia (and US imperialism) and defined themselves against • Bodily autonomy
the idea in order to build their cultural nationalist scholarship, Said's Orient • Global studies
was grounded in a different Asia (and European imperialism). We call for a • Cultural studies
return to Orientalism's original context – SWANA, and the Muslim and Arab • Artificial Intelligence
world so often on the fringes of Asian American studies. This re-orienting • Trans-racial/pacific/national/etc- solidarities
is more urgent than ever, especially as we recognize the role that the US • East of California
has and continues to play in shaping the "middle east" since well before • Transnational adoption
the publication of Said's seminal work. Though we have never been without • Islamophobia Anti-Semitism?
the threat of ethno-nationalism and fascism both at home and abroad, its • History and Memory
accelerated resurgence in the past ten years should make us all question • Language politics
how we got here, and how decades of silence around Palestine have helped • Surveillance
pave the way. How does centering Said’s Orient enable us to explore our • The Neoliberal University Divestment and boycott
own complicity in state violence and the violence of the settler colonial state?
How does centering a free Palestine help us to confront the attacks on ethnic
studies across the nation, gun violence on our campuses, and the precarity
of students who dare to boycott, protest, and challenge local, state, and Tessa Winkleman, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
federal authority? As we re-orient, we must necessarily also reorient the field Andrea Louie, Michigan State University
to include locations, temporalities and subjects that have heretofore been AAAS 2025 Program Committee Co-Chairs
“Othered '' in Asian American studies.
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7:00am-5:00pm
Registration
(Metropolitan Pre-Function)
8:15am-9:45am
T1Pin@y Educational PARtnerships: Ethnic Studies Students,
Teachers and Leaders as Scholar Activists
(Ballard)
Chair: Arlene Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University
Presenters:
Roderick Daus-Magbual, Skyline College and Pin@y
Educational Partnerships Leadership Participatory Action
Research (LPAR): Critical Leadership Praxis in Action
Verma Zapanta, Pin@y Educational Partnerships;
Luan Scrivner, Janrey Javier, Evangelica “Angeli” S.
Ong, Caleb Pascual, Samantha Ng, Burton High School;
THURSDAY,
and Brianna Cariño, Jeanelle Dyan Daus, Jocelyn
“Juice” Canales, Balboa High School
Teacher Participatory Action Research at Philip and Sala
Burton, “Transformative Relationships: Teaching as a
Barangay, and Balboa High School, “Barangay
APRIL 25TH, 2024

Actualization with Love - Exploration of Barangay
Pedagogy with High School Teachers”
Rosario Macahilas, Pin@y Educational Partnerships;
Alexander Arriola, Troy Kondo, Eryca Antonio, James
Denman Middle School; and Kiana Star Signey, Julianne
Marie “Jewel” Yee, Melchor Bongato, Carolyn Chau,
Longfellow Elementary School
Youth Participatory Action Research with James
Denman Middle School, “ “Beefin’ For What?:
Navigating Student Safety in (and beyond) Denman
Middle School” and Longfellow Elementary School,
“Educate, Empower, Eradicate: Elementary School
Students United Against Asian Hate”
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T2Dreaming New Frameworks for Anti-Oppression, Healing, T4Identity Formation and the Conditions of Legibility
and Filipino/x/a American Worldmaking (Issaquah A)
(Capitol Hill) Chair: Soo Ah Kwon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Michael Viola, Saint Mary’s College of California Discussant: Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University
Discussant: MT Vallarta, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Presenters:
Presenters: Soohyung Hur, University of Washington
Michael Viola, Saint Mary's College of California The imperial conditions of legibility and the Korean
Regimes of Anti-Asian Racial Capitalism: And the Logic immigrant parent figure in post-1990s queer politics
of Filipino Annihilation Susan Yang Hsun Hou and Seonah Kim, University of
Wayne Jopanda, University of California, Davis Washington
Bridging Liberated Masculinities Across Generation: Duoethnography on Power, Mobility, and Gender:
Building the Brokada Filipinx Mens Healing Circle Conversations Between Two “International”
Pau Abustan, California State University, Los Angeles Scholars of Color
Decolonial Queer Crip Pilipinx Worldmaking Praxis in Wendy Weile Zhou, Georgia State University
Youth Culture Animated Storytelling as Collective Re-imagining Chinese American Identity:
Learning & Activism Covid-19 Narratives on Chinese Diaspora Media
T3Choreographic Orientations of "Performing Back" T5Southern Oscillation/s: Theorizing Settler Colonial Critique
from/to Canada and the Philippines in South Asian Diasporic Studies
(Greenwood) (Issaquah B)
Chair: Allen Baylosis, University of British Columbia Chair & Discussant: Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Discussant: Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns, University of California, Presenters:
Los Angeles Aanchal Saraf, Dartmouth College
Presenters: Doctors With Borders: Immigration, Epidemics, and
Clarissa Mijares, Simon Fraser University Empire in Appalachia After 9/11
Transnational and Transformative Dance: Nishant Upadhyay, University of Colorado, Boulder
Marking Dance in Canada and the Philippines Other Solidarities: Decolonial Relationalities between
Tin Gamboa, Independent Dance Artist South Asians and Indigenous peoples in Tkarón:to
Dancing Multiplicities In The Bodily Archive: Beenash Jafri, University of California, Davis
A Real-Time Practice Towards Fluid, Affective, Wild West and the Alternate Colonial and Imperial
And Empowered Identities Genealogies of Asian American Studies
Dennis Gupa, University of Winnipeg Swati Rana, University of California, Santa Barbara
Balik-Balik: The Undoing of (Self)Exoticization in Water Work and the South/South Confluence
Teaching and Performing Igal/Pangalay in Canada in Asian American Art
Ralph Escamillan, FakeKnot Arts Society and Van Vogue
Jam Arts Society
Woven Embodiment: A Kinesthetic Exploration Of
Diasporic Cultural Identity Through Textile
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T6Memory, Trauma, and the Many Facets of Post-War T8Asian American Buddhisms
Tamilness in Sri Lankan America (Medina)
(Kirkland) Chair: Sharon Suh, Seattle University
Chair & Discussant: Nalini Iyer, Seattle University Presenters:
Presenters: Sophia Mao, Tufts University
Nalin Jayasena, Miami University of Ohio Through a Glass, Clearly: Racial Embodiment &
Dislocating Transnational Tamil Identity and the Multiple Meditation in Contemporary Asian American Fictions
Lives of Shobasakthi Jon Matsuoka, Hawai`i Betsuin
Dinidu Karunanayake, Elon University Sophea Seng, California State University, Long Beach
Sri Lankan American Civil War Reimaginations and Stories from my Buddhist Mother: A Cambodian
Memories of the Soil American Perspective
Kathleen Fernando, Kenyon College, Luke Kim and David Woo, University of the West
Sam Hafetz
Putting People Back Together”: Medicine, Trauma, and T9Current Debates in Asian American History
Care-work in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
and “Hippocrates Chair: Eun-joo Lee, Sogang University
Presenters:
T7Signals from Afar: Transnational Asian/American Media John Rosa, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Activism During the 1970s-80s What Is ‘Local’?: The Complexities of a Social-Cultural
(Leschi) Identity in 21st-Century Hawai‘i
Chair: Klavier Jie-Ying Wang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Margie Tang-Oxley, University of Minnesota
University "The Oriental Julia Child": Joyce Chen, Chinese
Discussant: Lori Kido Lopez, University of Wisconsin-Madison American Cuisine, and the Relationship Between
Presenters: Authenticity and the Model Minority Myth
Klavier Jie-Ying Wang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Jesse Lee, Florida State University
University Alien Land Laws Then and Now: Contemporary
“Chinese Compatriots Home and Abroad, This is Anti-Chinese Land Laws in Historical Perspective
CCTV”: The Making of the First Chinese-Language Michael Yebisu, University of Oklahoma
Television in the US, 1970s Contested Neighborhood: Blurred Borders Between
Grace Shiu-Ping Ying, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung Chinatown, Japan Town, and Little Manilla
University Anna Nguyen, Davidson College
Resistance in the Answering Machine: Le Thi Anh and the Creation of a Transnational Forum on
Voice of Taiwan’s Sound Activism in 1970-80s Vietnamese POWs, 1977-1984
Raymond Kun-Xian Shen, University of California, Los
Angeles
“What Kind of ‘Chinese’ Chinese Are You?”:
Yellowface Cinema, Organization of Chinese Americans,
and the Multidirectional Memories of Chinese Americans
in the 1980s
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T10
Forming Kinship: Connections Across T14
Asian American Inclusion/Exclusion in Social Science
Disciplines and Histories Research
(Ravenna A) (Seneca)
Chair & Discussant: Laura Sachiko Fugikawa, Colby College Chair: Tiffany Huang, University of Pennsylvania
Participants: Presenters:
S. Moon Cassinelli, Virginia Tech Tiffany Huang, University of Pennsylvania
Feeling Fragmentation: Disjointed Narratives and Kinship Using Asian Names to Signal Race in Audit Studies
in Cha's DICTÉE SunAh Laybourn, University of Memphis
Al Evangelista, Oberlin College Hyper(in)visibility: 120 Years of Sociological Research
How Dance and Technology Might Respond on Asian Americans
to Anti-Asian Hate Sonia Giebel, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
Jay Shelat, Ursinus College Always Absent?: The Racial Positioning
Kinship and Identity in Queer Desi Millennial Fiction of Asian-Americans in Education Policy Research
David Song, University of Oklahoma &
T11
Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Anthony Lising Antonio, Stanford University
Trauma in Viet American Cultural Production Always Absent?: The Racial Positioning
(Ravenna B) of Asian-Americans in Education Policy Research
Chair: Thaomi Michelle Dinh, Stanford University
Participants: T15
Queer and Trans of Color in the Twenty-First Century Asian
Thaomi Michelle Dinh, Stanford University Diaspora
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (University)
Linh T. Nguyen, University of Washington Presenters:
Thuy Tu, New York University Alvin Henry, San Diego State University
Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Macalester College Performing Non-normative Gender and Sexuality,
a case study in Vietnamese America
T12
Who Controls History?: The Forced Unearthing of the Drew Trinidad, University of California, Riverside
Wakasa at Topaz, Utah Spectacular Body-Texts: Diasporic and Transnational
(Ravenna C) Fan Navigations of K-Pop Survival Show Boys Planet
Presenter: (2023)
Michelle G. Magalong, University of Maryland Julien De Jesus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Theorizing Beyond the Bathroom Stall: Asian American
T13
A Brilliant Light: In Honor of Valerie Matsumoto Transmasculinities and Raciosexual Ideologies
(Columbia)
Participants:
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, University of California, Irvine
Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Christie Yamasaki, University of California, San Diego
Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles
Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
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T16
Constellating Empire: (Im)Possibilities, Imaginaries, and T18
Filipinx Storytelling
Living With(in) Militarized Violence (Jefferson B)
(Virginia) Chair: Lalaine Sevillano, Portland State University
Chair: Sokunthary Svay, The Graduate Center, City University of Presenters:
New York Bernadine Cortina, Chapman University
Presenters: Ecosystems of Dreaming: Loving Toward Liberatory
Mads Le, University of California, Los Angeles Visions Through Filipina Storytelling
Chronic Possibilities: Living in and with Toxicity Jo Alvarado, University of California, Los Angeles
alice kurima newberry, University of Texas, Austin Rremixing the Filipinx: Mythmaking Toward
The Solidarity of Bones: Ancestral Lessons of Survivance a More-Than-Human World
and Care in Diaspora Joshua Bender, University of California, San Diego
Shang Yasuda, University of Pennsylvania Tabi-Tabi Po: The Language of Crisis and the Philippine
Surviving in Violence: Taiwanese Soldiering Across Time, Folk Imaginary
Space, and Empires, 1930s - 1970s Sihem Bensalah, Yonsei University
Kourtney Nham, University of California, San Francisco The Racialized Female Body as a "Burning Candle" in
Theoretical Points of Departure: Empire’s Toxic Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters Building One's Identity
Repurposings at the Military-Carceral Nexus
10:00am-11:30am
T17
Carrying the Torch Without Burnout: Imagining a T19
Program Committee Plenary:
Sustainable Future for Asian American Studies On Disciplinarity and Asian American Studies
(Jefferson A) (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Chair: LilyAnn Villaraza, City College of San Francisco Co-Chair: Nadia Kim, Texas A&M University &
Participants: Co-Chair: Sameer Pandya, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas, College of the Redwoods Participants:
Making Time: Balancing My Love of Community, Yến Lê Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
Teaching Asian American Studies, While Barely Surviving Eleana Kim, University of California, Irvine
a Post Grad Work Life
Bernard James Remollino, San Joaquin Delta College
Making Spaces to Dream: Mentorship, Curriculum, and
Solidarity in Stockton’s Asian and Pacific American
Communities
98 99
T20
On Asian American Sound T22
Under Pressure: Crises in Climate and Mental Health
(Ballard) (Greenwood)
Chair: Donna Kwon, University of Kentucky Chair: Rachel Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters: Discussant: Michelle Huang, Northwestern University
Joey Song, University of Michigan Presenters:
Are There Asian American Sounds? Anthony Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
Noah Rosen, Columbia University Object Relations in Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form
Songs for a Nation: Filipino Resistance and Alterity in and Emptiness
Sonic Representations of Mindanao James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Irvine
Nic Vigilante, Cornell University Lose Your Mother: Asian American Grief Memoirs as
The 626 Night Market: Nightlife and the Sonic Model Minority Affect
Performances of Asian American Identity Tony Wei Ling, University of California, Los Angeles
Alison Yeh Cheung, California Polytechnic State Michael Deforge, Comics, and Diagrammatic Affect
University, San Luis Obispo
The Making of an Asian American Sonic Identity T23
Transpacific, Undisciplined
Donna Kwon, University of Kentucky (Issaquah A)
The Politics of Multivocality: Female Asian American Chair: Lily Wong, American University
Musicans and the #StopAsianHate Movement Discussant: Chien-ting Lin, National Central University, Taiwan
Presenters:
T21
A Multi-Disciplinary Lens on the Environment and Asian Christopher B. Patterson, University of British Columbia
America The Art of Emotional Automation: Empathy Machines
(Capitol Hill) and Asian ‘Victims’ in Virtual Reality
Chair: Surabhi Balachander, University of Michigan Kyung Hee Ha, North Carolina State University
Presenters: Decolonial Possibilities: Transpacific Feminist Movement
Reid Uratani, University of Minnesota for Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery Issue
(No) Aloha Spirit: Affect, Ideology, and Climate Crises Quynh H. Vo, American University
in Contemporary Hawai'i Transpacific Rupture: Neoliberal Relationalities and
Wendy Feng, University of Oregon Economic Violence in the COVID Era
Asian American Environmental Justice: Leanne Day, University of Hawai’i, Hilo
Activism in Long Beach, California ‘This is Paradise’: Transpacific Labor, Indigeneity, and
Sirsha Nandi, Texas A&M University ‘Undocumented’ in Hawaiʻi’s Hospitality Industry
Between Environmental Precarity and the Logic of Josen Masangkay Diaz, University of San Diego
Belonging in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic Apprehending Filipino America
Zoe Lee-Park, Yale School of the Environment
Immigrants, Refugees, and the Future
of Environmental Justice
Emily Yoon, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Thinking Through Garbage:
Living with Climate Degradation
100 101
T24
Closer to Liberation: Pin[a/x]y Activism in Theory and T27
The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration:
Practice A Collective Voice, A New Canon
(Issaquah B) (Medina)
Chair: Amanda Solomon Amorao, University of California, Chair: Rei Magosaki, Chapman University
San Diego Presenters:
Discussant: Allyson Tintiangco Cubales, San Francisco Floyd Cheung, Smith College
State University From ‘Shikata G Nai’ to ‘Never Again Is Now’:
Participants: A Diachronic and Synchronic Analysis of Japanese
Aimee Jurado, University of California, San Diego American Narratives of Incarceration
Joanmarie Bañez, University of California, San Diego Frank Abe, Resisters.com
Jen Soriano, Author Identifying a Collective Voice Across Generations
DJ Kuttin Kandi, Asian Solidarity Collective Andrew Way Leong, University of California, Berkeley
Servants, Traitors, Soldiers, Spies: The Translators
T25
Mana to the Transfer: Expanding Access to Higher of Japanese American Incarceration Literature
Education for Pasifika Community College Students Vince Schleitwiler, University of Washington, Seattle
(Kirkland) The Non-Alien in the Struggle for Memory, or, Anthology
Chair: Zach Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles for and against Canonization
Participants:
Melody Satele, University of California, Los Angeles T28
Politics of Care and Vulnerability in AAPI Women's Narratives
Aaron Tann, University of California, Los Angeles (Ravenna A)
Papu Togafau, University of California, Los Angeles Discussant: Hyoseol Ha, Creighton University
Sydney Pike, University of California, Los Angeles Presenters:
Toese Letuli, University of California, Los Angeles Hyoseol Ha, Creighton University
Cripistemic Injustice and Communities of Care in Sui Sin
T26
Future Continuous: Interdisciplinary Artists Far’s Chinatown Stories
and Future-Making Ajitpaul Mangat, Niagara University
(Leschi) “I am a good patient”: The Myth of the “High-Functioning
Chair: Lucy Burns, University of California, Los Angeles Minority” in Esmé Weijun Wang’s The Collected
Participants: Schizophrenias
Viet Lê, California College of the Arts Heather Fryer, Independent Scholar
Lucy Burns, University of California, Los Angeles Ensnared in Care: American Dreams, Feminist Utopias,
Tiffany Lytle, University of California, Santa Barbara and the Vulnerabilities of Refugee Women
Anida Yoeu Ali, Senior Artist-in-Residence Surbhi Malik, Creighton University
Robert Karimi, Independent “I Love All People”: Emotions and Shared Vulnerabilities
in Refugee Women’s Stories
102 103
T29
Minority Aesthetics in the Context of AAPI Studies: T31
Intersectionality: Anti-Racism, Heteronormativity and
Past, Present, and Future Transness
(Ravenna B) (Columbia)
Co-Chair: Janet Eunjin Cho, Texas A&M University & Presenters:
Co-Chair: Seon-Myung Yoo, Texas A&M University Jessica Tjiu, The Ohio State University
Presenters: Sexual Labor in Racial Capitalism: Revisiting
Janet Eunjin Cho, Texas A&M University the “Yellow Slave Trade” Narrative
Alimentary Form: Food, Language, and Aesthetics Mick Min Hung Kuo, The Ohio State University
in Contemporary Asian American Women's Fiction What Non-Binary? Taiwanese Gender Non-Binary
Nayoung Yang, State University of New York, Stony Discourses and Asian America
Brook Anne Yung Van
Feel it, "Feel the Rhythm of Korea": Performing Bodies/ So, You Want to be Asian? Analyzing Oli London’s
Spaces/Nostalgia “Transracialism”
Tahereh Aghdasifar, California State University,
Dominguez Hills T31.1
Conceptualizing Caste as Discourse: India, Pakistan,
Ugly Refractions: On Panteha Abareshi and Critique and the US Through the Anti-Caste Archive
Seon-Myung Yoo, Texas A&M University (Seneca)
Cyborg Aesthetics: A Critique of the Sexualization and Chair: Nashra Mahmood, University of California, Los Angeles
Racialization of Asian American Women Discussant: Rishi Guné, University of California, Irvine
Sue-Im Lee, Temple University Presenters:
Bad Aesthetic, Good Aesthetic, and Minoritarian Nashra Mahmood, University of California, Los Angeles
Aesthetics Odd Bedfellows of Hindu Nationalism: A case of Muslim
Identity formation on Indian Twitter
T30
Hello, Is It Me You're Looking For?: Rishi Guné, University of California, Irvine
Asian American/Diasporic Literary Curation in Debrahminizing US Empire: An Analysis of Caste
Predominantly White Institutions, AKA Institutions Consciousness Against the Archival Grain
(Ravenna C) Azzah Ahmed, University of California, Irvine
Chair: Jennifer Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder Shifting Identities: How does the upper-middle class,
Participants: Pakistani American diaspora, create caste at home?
Jennifer Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder
Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Columbia University T32
Feminisms I: Urgency, Radicality, Care:
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific Asian American Feminist Responses to Crises
American Center (University)
Leah Jing McIntosh, University of Melbourne Chair: Preeti Sharma, California State University, Long Beach
Crystal Parikh, New York University Participants:
Paisley Rekdal, University of Utah Wendsor Yamashita, California State University, Sacramento
Trung Phan Quoc Nguyen, San Jose State University
Grace En-Yi Ting, University of Hong Kong
Mai-Linh K. Hong, University of California, Merced
Lei X. Ouyang, Swarthmore College
Angela Robinson, The University of Utah
104 105
T33
What Is An Asian/Pacific American Studies (APAs) 11:45am-12:45pm
Public Humanities? SC1 Asian Settler Colonialism Section Meeting
(Virginia) (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Chair: Mika Thornburg, University of California, Santa Barbara
Participants: SC2 Ending the Korean War Section Meeting
Tamara Bhalla, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Ballard)
Chrissy Lau, San Francisco State University
Andrea Louie, Michigan State University SC3 Southeast Asian Section Meeting
Kelly Fong, University of California, Los Angeles (Capitol Hill)
Shannon Toribio, University of California, Santa Barbara
Lily Anne Tamai, California State University, Sacramento SC4 K-12 Section Meeting
(Issaquah A)
T34
Contingent Solidarities, Ambivalent, Relationalities
in Asian American Studies T36
Digital Humanities and Asian American Studies:
(Jefferson A) A Workshop Discussion
Chair: Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, Kansas State University (Greenwood)
Participants: Chair: Manan Desai, University of Michigan
Martin Joseph Ponce, Ohio State University Discussant: Anne Cong-Huyen, Columbia University
Pranav Jani, Ohio State University Presenters:
Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University John Cheng, Binghamton University
Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota Crowdsourcing Asian American History: Publics,
Lynn Itagaki, University of Missouri, Columbia Possibilities, and Challenges
Margaret Rhee, The New School Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia
Storying the Past to Preserve Intangible Heritage
T35
Asian American Comic Media Ji-Yeon Huh, Northwestern University
(Jefferson B) Oral History and the Recent Past: Archives, Audiences,
Presenters: and Individuals
Carson Watlington, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hybrid Bodies, Aberrant Life, and Cybernetic Forms T38
Modeling Literary Collaboration, an Interactive Literary
in Asian American Comics Mental Health Workshop
Wyleen Olaes, Irvine Valley College (Kirkland)
(Re)presentations of Asian American Identity in Presenters:
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Diana Khoi Nguyen, University of Pittsburgh
Derek Lee, Wake Forest University Cindy Juyoung Ok, Kenyon College
The Faces of Shang Chi: Paul Englehart, Doug Moench,
Gene Luen Yang, and the Politics of Kung Fu T39
From Then to Now: Building Asian American Studies
Jeanette Roan, California College of the Arts at Community Colleges Workshop
Why Comics in Asian American Studies? (Leschi)
Presenters:
Francesca Caparas, De Anza College
Mae Lee, De Anza College
106 107
T40
Thinking Through and Beyond the Disciplines Workshop T43
They Can't Wait Us Out: Building Asian American Student
(Medina) Power Workshop
Presenters: (Ravenna C)
Saomai Nguyen, Cornell University Chair: Samip Mallick, South Asian American Digital Archive
Evan Dong, Cornell University Participants:
Brendan Ly, University of California, Los Angeles Divya Aikat, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Evan Miksovsky, Stanford University Shilpa Davé, University of Virginia
Mavis Stone, Stanford University Christina Huang, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Marina Aina, University of California, Los Angeles Anupam Sharma, Dartmouth University
Aamir Azhar, Duke University
T41
Games, Hello Kitty and Oceans: Jahnavi Kirtane, Williams College
On New Asian American Texts
(Ravenna A) T44
Utopias and Dystopias
Chair: Gia-Quan (Anna), Davidson College (Columbia)
Presenters: Chair: Nancy Cho, Carleton College
Toni Hays, University of California, Irvine Presenters:
Bi-Secting Identities: The Global Discontent of Multiracial Thomas Dai, Brown University
Asian/American Girlhood in XO, Kitty Following Monarchs: Social Ecologies of a Migratory
Katarina Yuan, University of California, Los Angeles Butterfly
Caution, Orcs at Play: Critical Hits on the Model Minority Mai Wang, University of Texas, Dallas
Myth in Dungeons and Dragons Seeking Utopia with Younghill Kang
David Pham, University of California, Berkeley and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sensing Oceanic Life and Interspecies Relation in the Elizabeth Sun, University of California, Berkeley
Works of Patty Chang and Wu Tsang Yoko Tawada's Irradiated Worlds
T42
Relational and Emotional Engagement for Transformative T45
Urban Enclaves, Ethnoburbs & Localized Empire
Teaching Workshop (Seneca)
(Ravenna B) Chair: Klavier Jie-Ying Wang, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung
Presenters: University, Taiwan
Grace S. Kim, Boston University & Presenters:
Karen L. Suyemoto, University of Massachusetts, Boston Jeremy Lee Wolin, Princeton University
Bridging Psychology and Asian American Studies: Complicating the Urban Crisis: Asian American Enclaves
Relational and Emotional Engagement in Social Scientific and Planning Rhetoric
for Transformative Teaching Nathan Kim, University of Michigan
Ethnoburbs and Invisible Enclaves: Towards an Asian
Americanist Understanding of the Midwest
Jessica Man, Boston College
The American Empire in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown
Nathan Tam, University of California, Los Angeles
Two Worlds in Chinatown: Authenticity and Identity
in Urban Ethnic Enclaves
108 109
T46
Dance, Music, Hip Hop & Asian America T49
Memory Work
(University) (Jefferson B)
Chair: Emi Sawada, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Presenters:
Presenters: Rebecca Chhay, University of California, Los Angeles
Allan Zheng, University of California, Riverside The Annual Yosemite Sing Peak Pilgrimage: Chinese
Coarseness: Voicing and Moving the Diaspora in Cambodia American Memory Work
grace shinhae jun, University of California, San Diego & Ryan Ku, Swarthmore College
Daniel Woo, Hunter College War, Representation, and Asian American Studies
Community Building: Asian American Studies Through Audrey Wu Clark, United States Naval Academy
Hip Hop Studies & Aesthetics Yan Phou Lee and Collective Trauma/Memory
Carlo Antonio Villanueva, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Re/Moving While Brown: On Disarticulation and 1:00pm-2:30pm
Dissociation in Postmodern Dance Performance T50
Site Committee Plenary:
Eric Hung, Music of Asian America Research Center Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio - its Legacies and Asian
Understanding Narratives of Decline and Identity: American Workers Organizing Today
Interviews with Asian American Community Ensemble (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Participants:
T47
The Fiction of Korea Tracy Lai, Seattle Central College
(Virginia) David Della, Alaska Cannery Workers Association
Chair: Bao Lo, California State University, Sacramento J.M. Wong, MPOP
Presenters: Nemesio Domingo, Alaska Cannery Workers Association
Long Le-Khac, University of California, Berkeley founder
The Asian American Literature We're Constructing Eunice How, APALA and UNITE-HERE Local 8
in the 2020s
Mojca Penca, University of Wisconsin-Madison T51
Empires, Colonies & Their Discontents
The Fiction of Transnationalism in Korean Adoptee (Ballard)
Narratives Chair: Sophea Seng, California State University, Long Beach
V. Lundquist, Rice University Presenters:
The Specter of North Korea in Asian-American Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University
Subjectivities Assortment of Tongues: Sinophone Literature in Cold
War Hong Kong and Singapore
T48
AI and Passing Sim Low, Johns Hopkins University
(Jefferson A) The Island of No Return: The Culion Leper Colony as the
Presenters: Intersection of Public Health & Colonialism
Robert Nguyen, The Pennsylvania State University Shalini Kakar, Independent Researcher
Oriental, Inscrutable, Unknowable: Generative AIs, Jinns War of Narratives: Christianity, Iconoclasm and
and G. Willow Wilson's *Alif the Unseen* Contextualizing Oppression in South Asia
Klara Loc-Ling Boger, University of Michigan Nalani Saito, Northwestern University
Racial Redemption: Passing and Smuggling Who is Safe Under National Security? Asian American
in Sui Sin Far's "Woo-Ma and I" Reactions to Military Disasters in Hawai'i
Chang-Hee Kim, Yonsei University
The Pan-Ethnic Post-Humanity Inherent in an Asian AI's
Yellow Body in After Yang
110 111
T52
On Dystopia and Severance T54
Beyond Cyborgs & Techies: Critical Technology Studies and
(Capitol Hill) Asian/American Life
Chair: Robert Nguyen, Pennsylvania State University (Issaquah A)
Presenters: Chair: Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan
Pamela Thoma, Washington State University Participants:
Natural Disasters: Reproductive Refusal and Post Work Kai Nham, University of California, Los Angeles
Imagination in Ling Ma's Severance Xiaowei R. Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Cherise Fung, University of Wisconsin-Madison Wells Lucas Santo, University of Michigan
Pandemic as Portal? Memory and Reproductive Futurity Wendy Sung, University of California, Los Angeles
at the End of the World in Ling Ma's Severance Cella M. Sum, Carnegie Mellon University
Tracey Wang, University of Virginia Noopur Raval, University of California, Los Angeles
Precarious Work and Dystopian Visions in Ling Ma's
Severance T55
Radical Asian American Poetics: Vernacular Solidarity and
Abigail Jinju Lee, University of Oregon Hegemonic Encounter
The Office as Dystopia: Severance, The Immortal King Rao, (Issaquah B)
and Asian American Office Labor Chair: Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania
Presenters:
T53
Reinvigorating Asian American Sociology: Introducing the Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania
NYU Press Asian American Sociology Series Hoa Nguyen's Unexpected Solidarities
(Greenwood) Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair & Discussant: Linda Trinh Vo, University of California, Irvine Janice Mirikitani and Global Anti-Colonial Struggle
Presenters: Daniel Y. Kim, Brown University
Dana Y. Nakano, California State University, Stanislaus Cathy Park Hong's Afro-Asian Vernacular
Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform: Elizabeth Kim, Haverford College
Citizenship, Belonging, and the Limits of Assimilation Don Mee Choi and Cold War Ideologies
SunAh Laybourn, University of Memphis
Out of Place: The Lives of Korean Adoptee Immigrants T56
New Archives of Asian American Art and Literature
Yaejoon Kwon, Reed College (Kirkland)
The Korean Problem: U.S. Military Occupation and Chair: Joseph Wei, Indiana University, Bloomington
Raced Technologies of Empire Presenters:
Anthony C. Ocampo, California State Polytechnic University Joseph Wei, Indiana University, Bloomington
Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons Networking Asian American Poetry
Elena Shih, Brown University Christina Ong, University of Pittsburgh
The Trafficking - Deportation Pipeline: Policing Asian Archiving Asian American Art Movements in New York
Massage Bodywork and the War on Trafficking City – Collaborative Approaches to Interdisciplinary
Excavation
Xavier Xin, University of Pennsylvania
Postsentimental Horizons in Sui Sin Far's
'In the Land of the Free'
Yanyi, Asian American Literary Archive
112 113
T57
Unsettling Diasporic Hindu Nationalism in North America T59
Decentering Asian American Education: Southeast Asian
(Leschi) Americans Across the U.S. Schooling Pipeline
Chair: Nishant Upadhyay, University of Colorado, Boulder (Ravenna A)
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Queen’s University Diana Chandara, University of Minnesota
Salwa Kazi, University of Colorado, Boulder Towards Capturing Desire of Lao and Cambodian
Sonja Thomas, Colby College American High School Girls
Nadia Hasan, York University Insil Jeon and Vichet Chhuon, University of Minnesota
Sitara Thobani, Michigan State University The Problematics of Becoming Asian American: Karen
Harshita Yalamary, Queen’s University Students in U.S. Schools
Julie Pham, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
T58
Historic Preservation: Asian Americans, Cultural We’re Going to College Too: An Examination of the
Significance, and Endangered Places College Going Process for Southeast Asian and Pacific
(Medina) Islander Students
Chair: Emily P. Lawsin, 4Culture & Filipino American National Bao Diep, University of Minnesota
Historical Society (FANHS) Hauntology in Higher Education: From a Southeast
Presenters: Asian American Perspective
Nicholas Vann, Washington State Office of Equity Thong Vang, University of Minnesota
Chinese American Exclusion in the Historic Built Bridging the Gap: The Roles of HMoob Elders
Environment in HMoob Youth Education
Rosa Woolsey, Whitman College
Documenting the Oldest Cambodian Temple in T60
New Topics in Okinawan Studies: Interdisciplinary
Washington: Cultural Sustainability through Historic Approaches to the Study of Uchinaa
Preservation (Ravenna B)
Jade Wahlgren, University of Washington Chair: Laura Kina, DePaul University
Documenting Japanese American Sites in the White Presenters:
River Valley: Cultural Significance in Historic Preservation Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku, University of California,
Huy Pham, Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Santa Cruz
Preservation (APIAHiP) Before the Okinawa "Boom:" Ethnocultural Particularity,
Reorienting Historic Preservation as a Tool for Advancing Reversion, and the Neo-Imperial Gaze in Gojira Tai
Asian American Studies Mekagojira (1974)
Micah Mizukami, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Oral Histories and the Linguistic Landscape:
Understanding Diasporic Multilingualism at the 7th
Worldwide Uchinanchu Festival in Okinawa
Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, Amherst College
Before Old Koza: Applying Yui-Maru as Indigenous
Feminist Reading Method in Okinawa’s Black District
Daniel Akihiro Iwama, Simon Fraser University
How Does Militarism Dispossess?
a Geographical History of Military Colonialism
on Okinawa Island 1945-1955
114 115
T61
Postracial Fantasies, Racialized Realities: Asian Americans T63
Choreographies of Contested Belonging: Dance and the
and the Violence of the Postracial Negotiation of Asian Diasporic Identity
(Ravenna C) (Seneca)
Chair: Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, Colgate University Chair: Rosemary Candelario, University of Texas at Austin
Presenters: Presenters:
Sarah Hae-In Idzik, Carnegie Mellon University Rosemary Candelario, University of Texas at Austin
“Except for the Oriental slant to his eyes, he was What’s “New” About the Asian New Dance Coalition?
American”: Asian American Adoptees and the Myths Fangfei Miao, University of Michigan
of Postracialism Invisible Chineseness: Shen Wei’s Early Career
Kit Myers, University of California, Merced in New York 1995-1999
Interdisciplinary Interventions in the Fight Against Hye-Won Hwang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln &
“Postracial” Anti-Asian Violence and Model Minority Jyothsna Sainath, Nitya Nritya Dance Company
Racialization Unpacking Experiences in Salpuri and Bharatanatyam:
Yilan Hu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Dance and Asian Diasporic Identity
(Il)legitimate Kinship: Race, Sexuality, and Adoption Laws
T64
Materializing Sound, Embodying Aesthetics:
T62
Beyond Hmongness as Identity: Critical Literary and Cultural Towards an Undisciplining in Asian American Art
Hmong American Studies for the 2020's (University)
(Columbia) Chair & Discussant: Susette Min, University of California, Davis
Discussant: Ma Vang, University of California, Merced Presenters:
Presenters: Nina Horisaki-Christens, Getty Research Institute
Aline Lo, Colorado College De-structured Frequencies: Affective Resonances of
Tell me a Story: Narrating the Impossible in Hmong Hồng-An Trương’s To Speak a Language (2012/18)
American Texts Justin Quang Nguyên Phan, University of Illinois, Chicago
Magnolia Yang Sao Yia, University of California, Riverside On Indochine and Colorado Springs: Tracing Hương
To be less Hmong in my mother’s eyes: competing Ngô’s Agro-Aesthetics in Ungrafting (2024)
aesthetics of Hmongness in dance Iris Blake, Loyola Marymount University
May Yang, University of California, Merced Echo, Reflection, and Deaf Time in Christine Sun Kim’s
An opening for reckoning: the limit of liberal imagination Time Owes Me Rest Again (2022)
and the Hmong woman figure
116 117
T65
Play to Win: Recreation as Forms of Liberation 2:45pm-4:15pm
for Asian American Youth T68 Contingent Faculty Listening Session
(Virginia) (Metropolitan Ballroom B)
Chair & Discussant: Steven Tran, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters: T69
Suffering, Tasting & Performing Model Minority-ness
Ryan Horio, University of California, Los Angeles (Ballard)
"Loud Children!": Expression, Connection, and Chair & Discussant: erin Khuê Ninh, University of California,
Intersectionality Among Asian Taiko Drummers at North Santa Barbara
American Universities Presenters:
Brian Kohaya, University of California, Los Angeles Oliver Yimeng Xu, Columbia University
A Homecourt for All: The lessons and pain points in the There Can Only Be Failure': Reflections on a Group
development of Terasaki Budokan Therapy Pilot for Recovering Model Minorities
Vincent Le, University of California, Los Angeles Crystal Song, University of California, Berkeley
Spark of Linsanity: How Basketball Informs Asian Permission to Pass Time: Reperforming Rope Piece and
American Youth's Imaginings of Masculinity Model Minority Relations
Olivia G. Wing, University of Oregon
T66
Dear Asian American Studies: Mimi Khúc's Dear Elia Neighborhood Royalty in Seattle's Miss International
and Critical Conversations for Our Field Center Pageant,1950s
(Jefferson A) Stacie Tao, Columbia University School of Social Work
Presenters: Not Your Model Minority: Disadvantages and Needs
erin Khuê Ninh, University of California, Santa Barbara Within the Chinese American Population
Mimi Khúc, Independent Scholar Trinh Dang, University of California, Irvine
James Kyung-Jin Lee, University of California, Irvine Tasting America: Tokenism and Model Minority
Simi Kang, University of Victoria Performativity
Hale Lam, The George Washington University
T70
Colonial, Communal & Political Identity-Making
T67
On Contemporary Literary Fiction (Capitol Hill)
(Jefferson B) Chair: Manan Desai, University of Michigan
Eun-joo Lee, Sogang University Sabiha Mohyuddin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Appropriating 'Comfort Women': The Cld War Politics of Indian American Identity Construction Through the
National Belonging in Korean American Literature Framework of Symbolic Boundaries
Soyeon Kim, Texas A&M University Joohan Son, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies &
Cunterfeit Beauty: Inscrutability of Asian Americans in Semi Yeom, University of Maryland, College Park
Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit (2022) Intersectionality of Korean American Males: Multifaceted
Hyun Lee, Ewha Womans University Influence of the Korean Wave
Ethnicity-in-Common in Chinglish Edwin Carlos, University of California, Berkeley
and Straight White Men More Than Colonial Mentality: Expanding Theories of
Ian Yi Heng Koh, Chapman University Filipino American Ethnic/Racial Identity
Mirroring Financial Speculation and Late Capitalism Sonya Chen, Princeton University
through Speculative Fiction: Worker Gullibility Negotiating Identity and Conservatism: Asian American
Candidates in the Republican Party
118 119
T71
I Love the 1990S: Re:Turns, Re/Mixes, and Retro-Directions T74
Re-Thinking Asian American Literary Criticism in the 2020s
for Asian American Cultural Studies (Kirkland)
(Greenwood) Co-Chair: Michele Janette, Kansas State University &
Chair: Anita Mannur, Miami University Co-Chair: Na-Rae Kim, University of Connecticut
Presenters: Participants:
Chris A. Eng, Washington University at St. Louis Aline Lo, Colorado College
Stuck in the Groove of Contributionism: The Hidden Binod Paudyal, University of Maryland
Track of Queer Diaspora in Oscar Campomanes’s Cherise Fung, University of Wisconsin
“New Formations of Asian American Studies” Nabiha Mansoor, University of Wisconsin
Christine Mok, University of Rhode Island Anthony Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
The House of Kondo
Wendy Allison Lee, Brown University T75
The Asian Indies: Race, Place, and Comparative Imperialisms
Remixed Figures: Laura Kang’s “Si(gh)ting Asian/ (Leschi)
American Women as Transnational Labor” Chair: Johaina Crisostomo, Johns Hopkins University
Michelle N. Huang, Northwestern University Presenters:
Against “Race as Evidence”: Mae Ngai’s “The Johaina Crisostomo, Johns Hopkins University
Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: Theorizing an Asian American diaspora through the
A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924” Spanish Pacific
Douglas S. Ishii, University of Washington Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst College
The Essay that “We Cannot Not Use”: Susan Koshy’s “Nuestros salvajes filipinos”: Settler Encounters with Black
“The Fiction of Asian American Literature” Indigeneities in the Philippines
Ernest Rafael Hartwell, Western Washington University
T72
Alon and the Decentering of Filipinx American Studies Can Lies Tell Truth? Polemical Historical Imagination in
(Issaquah A) Bontoc Eulogy (1995)
Chair & Discussant: Rick Bonus, University of Washington You Jin Kim, Princeton University
Participants: Between Accommodation and Transgression:
Edward L. Nadurata, University of California, Irvine Women in the Spanish Colonial Pacific
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State
University T76
Navigating Memory, Connection, and Intimacy
Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez, Southwestern College of Asian American Narratives
Karen Buenavista Hanna, Connecticut College (Medina)
Reuben B. Deleon, University of California, Los Angeles Discussant: Christine Peralta, Amhurst College
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr., Syracuse University Presenters:
Penelope Ha Vy Phan, Smith College
T73
Exploring Upper Caste-ness in University Spaces Love, Violence, and Mental Health: The Intersections of
(Issaquah B) War in Queer Vietnamese American Literature
Chair: Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara Nacie Loh, Tufts University
Participants: Solidarity-Building in Boston’s Black and Asian
Maya Sinha, University of California, Los Angeles Community Organizing, 1970s-1990s
Nioshi Shah, University of California, Santa Barbara Mica Nimkarn & Christine Peralta, Amherst College
Nidhi Satyagal, University of California, Santa Barbara Networks of Care in the Philippines Women's Center
Sid Barathi, University of California, Santa Barbara Jihyun Paik, Amherst College
Sensory Subjectivities: Experimental Cinema and Asian
120 American Experience 121
T77
Geographies of Exclusion Across the 49th Parallel T80
Sustaining Asian American & Pacific Islander Students
(Ravenna A) and Faculty Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chair & Discussant: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington (Columbia)
Presenters: Chair: Maharaj "Raju" Desai, California State University, East Bay
Jessica Jiang, University of California, Berkeley Presenters:
Choosing Sides: Chinese-Salish Families in the Maharaj "Raju" Desai, California State University, East Bay
Canada-U.S. Borderlands Reaching beyond the Institution: Engaging AA&PI
Janna Haider, University of California, Santa Barbara students through community responsive outreach and
Racing Silences: Lumber, Labor, and Atemporalities in recruitment
the 1910s and 1920s Arlene Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University
Nicole Yakashiro, University of British Columbia Building A Culture of Care: The Development of an
Shack Talk: Asian Transience, Permanence, and Ethnic Studies Centered Faculty Learning Community
Possession in Settler Colonial British Columbia Jocyl Sacramento, California State University, East Bay
Melanie Ng, University of Toronto Anti-Asian Sentiment, Safety, and Social Connections in
Smuggling Papers: Consolidating Racial Exclusion and the Time of COVID-19
Chinese Migration Control
T81
The “Hate Crimes” Framework of Antiviolence Activism:
T78
New Books in Conversation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Origins, Applications, and Implications
on the Past, Present, and Future of Los Angeles Chinatown (Seneca)
(Ravenna B) Chair: Maxwell Leung, California College of the Arts
Chair: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine Discussant: Elizabeth Rubio, University of California, Santa Barbara
Laureen Hom, Cal Poly Pomona Caroline Hsu, University of Michigan
The Power of Chinatown: Searching for Spatial Justice “Subtle Asian Hate”: Contemporary Digital Responses to
in Los Angeles Anti-Asian Violence
William Gow, California State University, Sacramento Daniel B. Jin, University of Michigan
Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Policing Hate: Law Enforcement, Asian American Civil
Making of a Chinese American Community Rights, and the Politics of Violence in Boston, 1982-1992
David Mori, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
T79
Racialized Language and Linguistic Racial Subjectivity Fire with Fire: Black Uprisings, Asian American Identities,
in Classroom Spaces and the Rhetoric of Hate Crimes
(Ravenna C)
Chair: Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University
Presenters:
David Shuang Song, University of Oklahoma
Asian American racialization, language identities, and
heritage language
Stephie Minjung Kang, Michigan State University
Asian Bodies in College Writing Classrooms: Stories of
Transnational Asian Writing Teachers
Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk, Northern Illinois University
Thais in Illinois Oral History Project: Oral History as
Heritage Language Pedagogy
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T82
Asian American Law Professors: Where We've Been, T85
Asian American Aesthetics
Where We're Going (Jefferson B)
(University) Chair: Andrew Leong, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Phil Tajitsu Nash, University of Maryland Presenters:
Presenters: L. Maria Bo, California State University, Fullerton
Phil Tajitsu Nash, University of Maryland Diasporic Disciplines: Translating Comparative Literature
Sustainable Legal Activism: Bridging the Courtroom, into Asian America
the Classroom and the Community Hall Asha Jeffers, Dalhousie University
Robert Chang, Seattle University School of Law The Prophetic Second Generation in Chang Rae Lee's
Gabriel "Jack" Chin, University of California, Davis Native Speaker
School of Law Christopher Seiji Berardino, University of California,
Meera Deo, Southwestern Law School Riverside
Ilhyung Lee, University of Missouri School of Law Towards an Asian American Modernism?: H.T. Tsiang's
"Revolutionary Romanticism" in the Hanging of U
T83
Asian American Religions and White Christian Nationalism
(Virginia) 4:30pm-6:00pm
Chair & Discussant: Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh Dickinson University T86
Mentorship: Tenure Track
Presenters: (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Funie Hsu, San Jose State University Chair: Sony Coráñez Bolton, Amherst College
White Christian Nationalism, Secularism, and Participants:
Mindfulness in K-12 Public Schools Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles
Sachi Edwards, Soka University Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
White Christian Nationalism in Higher Education: Elliott Powell, University of Minnesota
Manifestations and Implications
Bradley Onishi, University of San Francisco T87
Transnational Information and Communication in Asian
Ché Ahn, the New Apostolic Reformation, and Christian America: Pedagogical Interventions
Nationalism Beyond Whiteness (Ballard)
Philip R. Deslippe, University of California, Santa Barbara Presenters:
Exceptions Proving the Rule: Understanding South Sarah Nguyễn, University of Washington
Asian American Politicians and White Christian The Transnational Information Syllabus
Nationalism Through Earlier South Asian Converts to Pranav Malhotra, University of Michigan
Christianity in the United States The Transnational Information Syllabus
Jeehyun Jenny Lee, University of Washington
T84
Diasporic Lives, Diasporic Resistance: Filipinx Poets, Critical Transnational Media Pedagogy
Scholars, and Educators Against Martial Law Rachel Kuo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Jefferson A) The Transnational Information Syllabus
Chair: Jan Padios, Williams College
Discussant: Joy Sales, California State University, Los Angeles
Participants:
MT Vallarta, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Marie Joyce Artap, BAYAN USA
Troy Osaki, Poet
124 125
T88
The Sage Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies T91
Centering Writing Instruction and ES Writing Pedagogies
(Capitol Hill) in AAS to Support Student Retention
Chair: Kevin Nadal, City University of New York (Issaquah B)
Participants: Chair: Katherine H. Lee, Sonoma State University
Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University Participants:
EJR David, University of Alaska Katherine H. Lee, Sonoma State University
Stephanie Chan, Foothill College
T89
Rethinking Asian American Girlhoods Valerie Fong, Foothill College
(Greenwood) Seng Vang, California State University, Fresno
Chair & Discussant: Erica Kanesaka, Emory University Jenny Banh, California State University, Fresno
Presenters:
Kathleen Escarcha, University of Washington T92
(Dis)Connections Between Asian American Studies and
Lashon Daley, San Diego State University Psychology: Revisiting 20 Years of Discussion
Black and Asian: Constructions of Identity in Nicola (Kirkland)
Yoon's YA Novel, Everything, Everything Chair: Karen L. Suyemoto, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jay Gao, Columbia University Participants:
Some Girls Translate: Transnational Poetics in Sawako Grace S. Kim, Boston University
Nakayasu’s Some Girls Walk Into the Country Miah Theresse Sabas, University of Massachusetts, Boston
They Are From Thanh P. Nguyen, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Autism Center
Jamelah Jacob, University of Washington Min Hyoung Song, Boston College
Joanmarie Bañez, University of California, San Diego
Asian American Girlhoods across Monique Truong's T93
Chinese Communities, U.S. Empire, and Chinese Exclusion
Southern Imaginaries in the Americas and the Pacific
(Leschi)
T90
Against Settler Environmentalism: More-Than-Human Chair: Julia Schiavone Camacho, Goshen College
Relations Across the Pacific Discussant: Kathleen López, Rutgers University
(Issaquah A) Presenters:
Chair & Discussant: Neel Ahuja, University of Maryland, College Benjamin Narvaez, University of Minnesota
Park Empire, Nation, and Immigration: Chinese Exclusion and
Presenters: U.S. Policy in Panama during the Early Twentieth Century
Mariko Whitenack, New York University Kent Weber, Michigan State University
Following a Strangler Fig: Contested Reforestation in Alien Citizens and the Settler Colony: The Early Onset of
Hawaiʻi’s Watersheds Chinese Exclusion in Hawaiʻi
Heidi Amin-Hong, University of California, Santa Barbara Richard Chu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Refuge(e) Aesthetics and the Decolonizing Pacific Challenges to US Gatekeeping in the Asia-Pacific
Desiree Valadares, University of British Columbia Region: Contesting ‘Chinese’ and ‘Chinese Mestizo’
Thinking Like a Gulch: Unlikely Antiquities and Uncertain Identities during the Chinese Exclusion Era in the
Toxicities at Honouliuli Gulch in Hawaiʻi Philippines, 1898-1908
Ashanti Shih, Vassar College
Wading for Limu: Asian Settlers, Kanaka Maoli Women,
and the Vernacular Knowledge of Seaweeds in Hawai’i
126 127
T94
Our Southern Accents: How AANHPI Communities Reclaim T96
Military Afterlives: Gendered Violence and Transnational
and Reconstruct the U.S. South Kinship Ties
(Medina) (Ravenna B)
Chair: Roy Vũ, Dallas College Presenters:
Participants: Se Bin Esther Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
Roy Vũ, Dallas College Feminized Labor and Colonial Genealogies: Los Angeles
Vietnamese American Gothic: Southern Vietnamese Koreatown’s Karaoke Hostess Girls
Reckoning in the U.S. South Trinity Gabato, University of California, Los Angeles
Elaine Cho, American University The Surviving Memories and Legacies of War:
East Meets West in the South: Exploring Koreatowns of Intergenerational Communication Among Vietnamese
TX, AL, GA, VA, and MD American Women
Thao Ha, MiraCosta College Kristi Mai, University of California, Los Angeles
Justice Impacted Vietnamese in Texas: A Navigation of Online Occupation(al) Asian Bodies: Vtubing, Sex Work,
the Carceral System Militarism
Stephanie Drenka, Dallas Asian American Historical Society
Leftover: Uncovering and Building the Legacy of Chinese T97
Community Education Outside of Academia and Lessons
Americans and Chinese Cuisine in Dallas, Texas We've Learned Over 4 Years
Denise Johnson, Dallas Asian American Historical Society (Ravenna C)
Leftover: Uncovering and Building the Legacy of Chinese Chair: Linh T. Nguyen, University of Washington
Americans and Chinese Cuisine in Dallas, Texas Participants:
Christina J. Hahn, Dallas Asian American Historical Minh Do, Sông2Sea
Association Vinh Hua, Sông2Sea
Leftover: Uncovering and Building the Legacy of Chinese Kathy Nguyen, Sông2Sea
Americans and Chinese Cuisine in Dallas, Texas Nikki Châu, Sông2Sea
T95
"Radical" Kinship: Rethinking Korean Diaspora from Below T98
Confronting Asian American Neoconservative
and Beyond to Neoliberal Formations
(Ravenna A) (Columbia)
Presenters: Chair & Discussant: Sharon Luk, Simon Fraser University
Ka-eul Yoo, University of California, Irvine Presenters:
Contingent Disability: Cold War Disability Narratives and Jasmine Ehrhardt, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Transnational Adoption from the Korean War to the Platforming “Asian Hate”: Infrastructures and Networks
Vietnam War of Asian American Fascism
Elizabeth Kopacz, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Trung PQ Nguyen, San Jose State University
Histories of Rupture, Technologies of “Repair”: DNA, Un/Propertied Refugees: Recuperating Expropriation in
Transnational Korean Adoption, and the Means of the Viet/Afghan Equation
Belonging Christopher Joseph Lee, University of California, Merced
Hahkyung Darline Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz Broadcasting Chinese Transnational Transphobia
Independence Gate, a Monument for the Diasporic Citizen Ren-Yo Hwang, Mount Holyoke College
Haneul Lee, New York University Carceral Coalitions and Gay/Asian American Civil Rights
The Mechanisms/Mechanics of the U.S. Empire:
Contouring local labor for the U.S. Army in South Korea
in exchange for U.S. citizenship
128 129
T99
Living Histories of Diasporic Social Movements T101
Messy and Defiant: Complicating Queer/Trans
in Asian America Asian/American Modes of Care
(Seneca) (Virginia)
Chair: Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University Chair: Rachel Kuo, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Crystal Baik, University of California, Riverside Discussant: Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata, University of
Presenters: California, Irvine
Joy Sales, California State University, Los Angeles Presenters:
Only the Young?: Intergenerational Movement-Building Demiliza Saramosing, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
and Anti-Fascist Politics in the Filipino Diaspora Messin’ Wid Paradise: Kalihi & Oceanic Homeplace-
Ida Yalzadeh, Lehigh University Making In & Beyond the City with No Pity
Shades of Iranian America in LA: Photography as Ariel Dela Cruz, Cornell University
Diasporic Community Activism Tomboy Afterlife: Careful Listening and Tomboy Time in
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College “Before it Explodes”
Archives of Activism and Surveillance James Huỳnh, University of California, Los Angeles
Minju Bae, New York University Coalitional Care: Contradictions and Complexity in
Diaspora Against Free Trade: Organizing against the LGBTQ Non-Profit Ecosystem in Orange County, CA
Korea-US Free Trade Agreement Kai Nham, University of California, Los Angeles
Unfurling Trans Asian American Care & Digital
T100
Indian American Diaspora and Hindu Nationalism Information Infrastructure
(University)
Discussant: Sasha Sabherwal, Northeastern University T102
Ethnographies of Asian America: Fieldwork Dilemmas
Presenters: and Possibilities
Sangay K. Mishra, Drew University (Jefferson A)
Indian Americans and Hindu Nationalism: Mapping Chair & Discussant: Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, University of
Transnational Networks California, Santa Barbara
Debadatta Chakraborty, University of Massachusetts, Chair: Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst Presenters:
Caste & Lawfare: Anti-Caste legislations, Hinduphobia Elizabeth Hanna Rubio, University of California, Santa
and the case of global Hindutva in the US Barbara
Bidisha Biswas, Western Washington University Time and the Undocumented Other
Let’s Talk about the ‘Idea of India’: Indian-Americans and Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Contestations about Hindu Nationalism in the United Is it Possible to Research the “Other” Without Further
States “Othering” Them?: Fieldwork Dilemmas and
Dheepa Sundaram, University of Denver Possibilities for Asian American Feminist and
Hindutva 2.0, Student Edition: How Hindu Students Community-Based Research Methodologies
have become the Face of the US Hindu Right’s Legal Ivan V. Small, University of Houston
Strategy Interrogating (auto)Ethnography
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Ethnography and Ethnic Studies
Qing Tingting Liu, University at Albany, State University
New York
Against Methodological Nationalism
Nadia Y. Kim, Texas A&M University
130 131
What are Asian Americans Actually Saying?

T103 The Current State of Asian American Workers in Libraries
and Archives
(Jefferson B)
Chair: Eric Hung, Music of Asian America Research Center
Participants:
Adriene Lim, University of Maryland
Gerardo Colmenar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Naomi Kawamura, Densho
Mea L. Lee, Anne Arundel Community College
Keno Catabay, University of Colorado, Boulder
Gerie Ventura, Highline College
6:00pm-7:00pm
New Books Reception
(Metropolitan Ballroom Pre-Function)
7:30pm
T104
Our Mr. Matsura: Japanese Immigrant Photography,
Settler Colonialism, and Native Survivance
(Ballard)
Chair: Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine
Presenters:
Glen Mimura, University of California, Irvine
Beth Harrington, Filmmaker
Michael Holloman, Washington State University
T105
Fly in Power
(Capitol Hill)
Presenter:
Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley
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7:00am-5:00pm
Registration
(Metropolitan Pre-Function)
8:15am-9:45am
F1
Site Committee Plenary:
Forging Radical Struggles in Multiracial Seattle
(Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Chair: Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington
Participants:
Megan Asaka, University of California, Riverside
Diana Johnson, California State University, San Bernardino
Mike Tagawa, Former Black Panther and Longtime Activist
F3Emotional Asians: Theorizing the Affective Landscapes of
FRIDAY,
Asian America After 2020
(Ballard)
Chair: Leland Tabares, Colorado College
Presenters:
Jewel Pereyra, Harvard University
APRIL 26TH, 2024

Inhospitable Affects: Eisa Jocson’s Corponomy and the
Performing Filipina Body
Susan Thananopavarn, Duke University
The Story Politic: Envy and Racial Impersonation in R.F.
Kuang’s Yellowface
Jennifer Cho, University of Maryland, College Park
Kimchi Blues and Jolly Pong: Emotional Eating in Tastes
Like War and Crying in H Mart
Min Kyung Boo, Temple University
Politics of Disidentification: Jealousy and Antagonism
in Elaine Hsieh Chou's Disorientation
134 135
F4Queer Life: Art, Communities, COVID & Cruising F5APIDA STEM Students and Faculty: Lived Experiences
(Capitol Hill) at Disciplinary Intersections
Chair: Ray San Diego, Northwestern University (Greenwood)
Presenters: Chair: Nina Ha, Virginia Tech
Sophia Pan, University of Florida Presenters:
"The Wuhan I Knew": Queer Diasporic Identity in Messy Emily Kim
Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American The Applicability of Measuring Racial Attitudes Towards
Kendall Ota, University of California, Santa Barbara APIDAs
Creepy, Thirsty, and Desperate: Asian Men and the Michelle Choi Ausman, Virginia Tech
Specter of the Creep Incorporating APIDA Praxis into Engineering Identity
Zihao Yuan, University of Washington Jerry Yang, Stanford University
A Call for Advocacy and Empathy: A Study of Gay Men Overrepresented Yet Marginalized: Theorizing at the
in Chinese Dance Intersection of AsianCrit and Engineering Education
Joanna Yeh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Luke Stanley, Virginia Tech
Queer Asian American Art and Kinship Ties: Theoretical Tutoring to address the community needs of APIDAs in
Empowerment with Bernice Bing STEM
Chali Lee, Stanford University Vincent Wang, Virginia Tech
To Be Queer Hmong: Hmong Family Formation and Exploring the Impact of APIDA Student Participation
Queer Identity Formation in the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers on Their
Professional Engineering Identity Development
Annie Patrick, Georgia Tech
Unpacking Interdisciplinary Selves within STEM
Education
Jim Tokuhisa, Virginia Tech
The relevance of Asian American Studies to APIDA
students majoring in life sciences at a STEM-dominated
university
Mohammad Farooq Zahid, Virginia Tech
Gaps in Civic Engagement and Education in the APIDA
STEM Community
136 137
F6Identity, Subjectivity, and Genre in Contemporary Asian F8Environmental Entanglements in Asian America
American Literature (Kirkland)
(Issaquah A) Co-Chair: Simi Kang, University of Victoria &
Chair: Betsy Huang Co-Chair: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, University of California, Santa Barbara
Discussant: David Roh, University of Utah Presenters:
Presenters: Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito, Amherst College
Kaitlin Hoelzer, University of Utah Ecological Aftermaths in the Black Pacific: The Racial
The Lyric I and Queer Asian American Subjectivity Logics of Settler Security and Writing Toward Futurity in
Audrey Bauman, University of Utah the Poetry of Teresia Teaiwa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
Subjectlessness, Genre, and the Many Estrangements Rae Keʻala Kuruhara, University of California, Los Angeles
of Candace Chen He Inoa ‘Ala: Scent, Memory, and Identity
Ali Myers, University of Utah in Indigenous Comics
Fragmented Narrative and Fugitive Movement towards a Keva X. Bui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Future Subject Eugenic Ecologies of Herbicidal Warfare
in the Vietnam War
F7Spectral Snapshots: Ghostly Abstractions of Ornamentalism Heidi Amin-Hong, University of California, Santa Barbara
(Issaquah B) From Yosemite to the Cold War: Decomposing Settler
Chair & Discussant: Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan, Mythologies in the Asian American Outdoors
Ann Arbor Emily Hue, University of California, Riverside
Presenters: To Infinity and Beyond: Life and Death Matters in Asian
Clara Chin, University of California, Santa Barbara Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee’s Mushroom
My Tears are Shiny: Asian Sadgirl Ornamentalism Burial Suit
Irene Kim, Northwestern University
Metabolic and Lactic Asian American Femininities F9The End of Metaphor: An Experimental Writing Lab
Cecily Chen, University of Chicago (Leschi)
‘Parenthetical Subjects’: Tracing Asiatic Femininity in Chair: Muriel Leung, California Institute of the Arts
Pamela Lu’s Ambient Parking Lot Participants:
Hale Lam, The George Washington University Christopher Santiago, California Institute of the Arts
Ghost and the Machine: Techno-spectral Femininity in Jason Magabo Perez, California State University San Marcos
Ling Ma's Severance Jenny Liou, Pierce College
Truong Tran, Northeastern University
F10
Vietnamese Diasporas in Dialogue: A Roundtable of Writers
and Poets
(Medina)
Chair: Lan Duong, University of Southern California
Participants:
Lan Duong, University of Southern California
Minh Vu, Yale University
Diana Khoi Nguyen, University of Pittsburgh
Cathy Linh Che, Kundiman
Paul Tran, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network
138 139
F11
Zainichi, Nikkei, Asian America: Re-Routing Diasporic F13
AAAS and the Fight for Ethnic Studies in K-12
Identities Through a Decolonized Japan (Ravenna C)
(Ravenna A) Chair: Kelly Fong, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Haruki Eda, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Participants:
Discussant: Kyung Hee Ha, North Carolina State University Thuy Vo Dang, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters: Theodore S. Gonzalves, Smithsonian Institution
Haruki Eda, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Archipelagoes of Resistance: Political and Theoretical Diane C. Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Implications of Zainichi Korean Liberation Praxis Keith Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles
Miho Kim, San Francisco State University Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
“Exploring Paths to Genuine ‘Nikkei’ Liberation” by
Hisabetsu Nikkei Alliance-Building Project F14
Korean American Cultural Flows and Politics
Desun Oka, Stanford University (Columbia)
Decolonizing Nikkei Tour 2023 Report Back Chair: Stephen Cho Suh, San Diego State University
Presenters:
F12
Entanglements of Empires, Migations, and Diasporas Stephen Cho Suh, San Diego State University
Between Korea, the Philippines, and the Americas Feeding the 'Han'-gry Masses: Korean American Chefs
(Ravenna B) Negotiating the Contours of Korean (American) food in
Chair & Discussant: Simeon Man, University of California, the U.S. and South Korea
San Diego Carol K. Park, University of California, Riverside
Presenters: Korean American Foodways as Interethnic Dialogue:
Rachel Haejin Lim, University of California, Sacramento Masticating Stereotypes
Rescuing Koreans in Mexico: Edith Chen, California State University, Northridge
The Making of an Inter-Imperial Diaspora Korean Americans and Diabetes: Changing foodways
Joshua Acosta, University of California, Berkeley and Korean Americans in Southern California
Leprosy and Labor: The Case of a Filipino Domestic Sunmin Kim and Nolan Yee, Dartmouth College
Worker, Disease, and Deportation Heterogeneity Among Asian Americans: Policy Opinions
across U.S. Imperial Terrain of Korean Americans and Vietnamese Americans
Carolyn Choi, Princeton University
Subimperial Mobilities & Educational Tourism from South F15
Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Meets Asian American Studies
Korea to the Philippines & Saipan (University)
Daniela Pila, Southern Connecticut State University Participants:
“They don’t think I’m an illegal": Relational experiences Rupa Pillai, University of Pennsylvania
of racialized illegality from precariously legal and Sailaja Krishnamurti, Queen’s University
documented Filipinos Prea Persaud, Swarthmore College
Shreena Niketa Gandhi, Michigan State University
Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
140 141
F16
Asian American Studies in the Reactionary State of Texas F17
JSAAEA Special Issue: Toward Hmoob-Centered Inquiries
(Virginia) (Jefferson A)
Co-Chair: Bianca Mabute-Louie, Rice University & Chair: Kaozong N. Mouavangsou, University of California, Merced
Co-Chair: Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University Participants:
Presenters: Kaozong N. Mouavangsou, University of California, Merced
Bianca Mabute-Louie, Rice University Toward HMoob-centered Inquiries: Reclaiming HMoob
Chinese American Evangelicals’ Racial Attitudes in American Educational Scholarship and Curriculum
Houston, TX: Implications for Community Outreach and Pa N. Vue, University of California, Berkeley
Organizing Hmong Narratives as Testimony
Sohyun An, Kennesaw State University Mao Lee, University of Minnesota
Youth Organizing and Efforts for Asian American Studies Paj Xyeem
in Texas Choua P. Xiong, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Vanita Reddy, Texas A&M University Toward HMoob-centered Inquiries: Reclaiming HMoob
Doing Interdisciplinary Asian American Diaspora Studies American Educational Scholarship and Curriculum
Working Groups Thong Vang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Esther Kim, William & Mary HMoob Eldership as Pedagogy: Reclaiming HMoob
Youth Organizing and Efforts for Asian American Studies Knowledge as HMoob Education
in Texas Chong A. Moua, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Alden Marte-Wood, Rice University My Own Kwv Txhiaj: Reflecting on Self Learning of a
TexAsian Narratives: Experimental Student Assessments Hmong Oral Tradition
in Asian American Studies Courses in Houston
Noreen Naseem Rodriguez, Michigan State University F18
On Brown Poetics
Youth Organizing and Efforts for Asian American Studies (Jefferson B)
in Texas Chair: Junaid Rana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Villanueva, Texas A&M University Presenters:
Doing Interdisciplinary Asian American Diaspora Studies Weishun Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Working Groups “Where Are You From?": Poetic Difficulty as a Response
Zainab Abdali, Rice University to the Affect of the Questionable
Lessons in Flexibility: Lessons from the Rice Asian Samuel Wee, Nanyang Technological University
Diasporic and Asian American Research Collective Curbed by a Distant Audience: The Mediatic Poetics of
Divya Victor and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Rishi Guné, University of California, Irvine
No Other Worlds: Caste Consciousness at the Nexus of
Imperial Homonormativity
Nabiha Mansoor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Post-9/11 Racialization and Cross-Ethnic Solidarity in
Contemporary Muslim American Poetry
142 143
10:00am-11:30am F22
Serving the People at the Cal States: Community-Rooted
F19
Presidential Plenary: Research, Learning, and Organizing
From Ethnic Studies to Administration: (Greenwood)
Can We Be the Change to the Institution? Chair & Discussant: May Lin, California State University, Long
(Metropolitan Ballroom A) Beach
Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College Presenters:
Panelists: May Lin, California State University, Long Beach
Celine Parreñas Shimizu, University of California, Movement-Based Research and Organizing:
Santa Cruz Supporting the Long Beach People’s Budget
Dylan Rodríguez, University of California, Riverside Demetrius Tien, University of California, Irvine
Floyd Cheung, Smith Project Resilience at CSULB: Community-Based
Internships and Learning
F20
Teaching Side By Side: Engaging Korean Adoptee Yvonne Kwan, San Jose State University
Experiences in Interdisciplinary Contexts Serving the People: Community-Rooted Research &
(Ballard) Learning at SJSU
Chair & Discussant: Glenn Morey, Producer/Co-Director, Side by R. Varisa Patraporn, California State University, Long
Side Project Beach
Participants: Building Asian American Nonprofit Capacity to Serve
Kira Donnell, San Francisco State University Small Business Owners: Lessons Learned from a
Amber Davies-Sloan, DigiPen Institute of Technology National Peer-to-Peer Model for Technical Assistance
Aeriel A. Ashlee, St. Cloud State University Madison San Luis, California State University, Long
JaeRan Kim, University of Washington, Tacoma Beach
Kim Park Nelson, Winona State University Project Resilience at CSULB: Community-Based
Internships and Learning
F21
Home on the Horizon: Towards Trans-Disciplinary Charlotte Austria, California State University, Long Beach
in Queer and Trans Filipinx Studies Project Resilience at CSULB: Community-Based
(Capitol Hill) Internships and Learning
Co-Chair: Julien De Jesus, University of California, Santa Barbara
Co-Chair: Johansen C. Pico, University of California, Irvine F23
Technosciences of Asian Racialization in Times of Total War
Participants: (Issaquah A)
Julien De Jesus, University of California, Santa Barbara Chair & Discussant: Neda Atanasoski, University of Maryland,
Jon Joey Telebrico, Claremont McKenna College College Park
Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Cal Poly Humboldt Presenters:
Isabel Felix Gonzales, University of Virginia Keva X. Bui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
stef torralba, Pomona College America’s Napalm
Peter Villafañe, Trash Mag Clare S. Kim, University of Illinois Chicago
Filtering for the Yellow Peril: Race and Datafication
of the Enemy in the Pacific War
Huan He, Vanderbilt University
Core Memory
144 145
F24
Racist Love and Monstrous Asians in Contemporary F27
Transnational Histories of Public Health: The Queer-Feminist
Pop Culture Politics of Asian/American Embodiment
(Issaquah B) (Medina)
Chair: Anne Mai Yee Jansen, California Polytechnic State Chair & Discussant: John Paul (JP) Catungal, University of
University, San Luis Obispo British Columbia
Anne Mai Yee Jansen, California Polytechnic State David K. Seitz, Harvey Mudd College
University, San Luis Obispo “The Grief that Does Not Speak”: The Minor
Haunting the House of History: Monster Theory and Abstractions and Intimacies of Pei-Hsien Lim
Asian American Feminisms Vicky Hsing, University of California, Irvine
Alison Yeh Cheung, California Polytechnic State Militarism and Colonial Sexology: Comfort Station’s
University, San Luis Obispo Public Hygiene Management as Remembered by
Aliens & Figurines: Constructing Colonial Intimacy in Sanzao Island Residents
Marvel’s Paternal Relationships Preeti Sharma, California State University, Long Beach
Krupal Amin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The Virality of Nail Salons: Asian/American Women’s
Diasporic Monstrosity and Asian American Normalcy: Service Work, State Care, and Mutuality in COVID-19
The Tolerable Other in Naomi Novik’s The Golden Jih-Fei Cheng, Scripps College
Enclaves Indenturing Intellectual Property: The Queer Coolitude of
Laura A. Wright, University of Montana, Western Taiwan/America from Syphilis to HIV/AIDS to COVID-19
Finding the Monsters in Monstress
F28
Asian American Studies from Cradle to Graduate School
F25
Performance, Memory, and Nostalgia Across Asian America (Ravenna A)
(Kirkland) Chair & Discussant: Patricia A. Neilson, Educational Consultant
Chair: Francis Tanglao Aguas, Drexel University Presenters:
Discussant: Allan Zheng, University of California, Riverside Faye Caronan, University of Colorado, Denver
Presenters: Transforming the Asian American Pacific Islander
Prahas Rudraraju, University of California, Los Angeles Student Experience in the Denver Metro Area
Dancing on the Edge of the Homeland: Reckoning with Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut, Hartford
Nostalgia in a Hindu Nationalist Present Serving Central Connecticut's Asian American
Rane Prak, University of California, Los Angeles Communities: Building Upon Success in K-12 for
Khmeraspora: A Multivocal and Collaborative Improving Post-Secondary Outcomes
Cambodian American Musical Experience Phitsamay S. Uy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Mel Liu, University of California, Los Angeles Leveraging Community Partners to Serve Asian
Asian American and Immigrant Music Performance and American American Students and Their Families
Nostalgia in Chinatown
F26
Visually Mapping Ourselves and Our Communities
(Leschi)
Presenters:
Julia Huỳnh, Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective
Chrisna Khuon, Emerging Artist & Scholar
Vian Nguyen, Illustrator
146 147
F29
Music in Asian American Studies: A Community Dialogue F32
BTS as Lens for Asian American Studies in the 2020s
(Ravenna B) (Seneca)
Chair: Francis Wong, Musician/Scholar Chair: Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley
Noah Kawaguchi, San Francisco State University Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of California,
Kei Terauchi, San Francisco State University Berkeley
Francis Wong, Musician/Scholar Empire Goes On: Circuits of Asian Care Work
Wesley Ueunten, San Francisco State University Andrea Acosta, Pitzer College
Scott Oshiro, Music Technology Researcher Recoding the Bot: ARMY and Digital Transgression
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
F30
Feminisms II: The Self in Study: Identities Within Asian Jung Kook’s Button, or the Gif that Keeps on Giving
American Feminisms UyenThi Tran Myhre, Writer
(Ravenna C) ‘Let Us Light Up the Night’: BTS and Abolitionist
Chair: Karen Siu, Rice University Possibilities at the End of the World
Participants: Havannah Tran, Artist
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, Stony Brook University BTS Stands for Bisexuals, Trans Folks, & Sapphics
Van Ngoc Tran Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park Yutian Wong, San Francisco State University
Catherine Ma, City University of New York Martha and the Swans: BTS, ‘Black Swan,’ and Cold
Lili Shi, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY War Dance History
Raymond San Diego, Northwestern University
F31
Lesser Known Histories of Chinese America 50 Shades of Butter: Consensual Non-Consent
(Columbia) in BTS Fanfiction
Chair: Carl Kubler, Carnegie Mellon University
Presenters: F33
Filipinx Freedom School Now: Contesting Disinformation
Jiajia Zhang, Harvard University in the Diaspora
Brother Seamen in Arms: The Transatlantic Struggle (University)
Against Asiatic Exclusion on the High Seas Chair: Karen Buenavista Hanna, Connecticut College
David Rouff, University of California, Merced Presenters:
Positivist Archives, Ghostly Analysis: Re-Imagining of Allan Lumba, Concordia University
American Chinese Urbanism, Activism, and Belo Battling Disinformation Through An Online Freedom
Shinya Yoshida, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities School
The Possibility of Pan-Asian Solidarity among Chinese Alden Marte-Wood, Rice University
and Japanese Immigrants in America during the 1930s Radical Pedogagy in Relation
Jian Gao, University of Texas at Austin Mark Sanchez, Vanderbilt University
The Rise of Anti-Chinismo in Mexico: “Through the Bars, Darkly”: Anti-Authoritarian Solidarities
A Multi-Scalar Perspective Past and Present
Cindy Domingo
The efforts of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP)
Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda
Lessons from the Tyree Scott Freedom School
148 149
F34
Lessons Learned: Past, Present, & Future Directions of AAS F36
On Multiple Asian/American Solidarities
at Williams College (Jefferson B)
(Virginia) Presenters:
Participants: Natalie El-Eid, Syracuse University
Sunny Hu, Williams College “The Edge of Each Other's Battles":
Hannah Bae, Williams College Arab/Asian American Studies and Investments
Ray Wang, Williams College Mieko Anders, Columbia University
William Huang, Williams College “We Won't Be Contract Labor": Settler Idealism and
Jahnavi Kirtane, Williams College Agrarian Innovation in Brazil-Maru
Rika Nakato, Williams College Surabhi Balachander, University of Michigan
Frances Leung, Williams College Two Kinds of Indian: South Asian and Native American
Audrey Liu, Williams College Confusions in the West
Juan Carlos Fermin, University of California, Irvine
F35
Minor Infrastructures of Cold War Asia Yellow Peril, Black Power: The Boundaries and Horizons
(Jefferson A) of Afro-Asian Coalition Politics
Chair: Naveen Minai, University of Toronto
Discussant: Junyoung Verónica Kim, University of Pittsburgh F37
Poster Session:
Presenters: Food Experiences and Understanding of Food Security of
Tandee Wang, University of California, Santa Barbara AANHPI in O'ahu, Hawai'i: A Qualitative Study
“Hundreds of Fucking Vietnamese Balts”: Cold War (Book Exhibit)
Militarism and Refugee Racialization in the Transpacific Presenters:
after 1975 Preeti Juturu, University of California, Los Angeles
Maile Aihua Young, University of California, Santa Barbara Jessica Fay, University of California, Los Angeles
Capitalism, Communism, Population: Asian American
Visions of Global Aid in Cold War India and Vietnam F38
Poster Session:
Minjung Noh, Lehigh University Museum Roles in Heritage Connections
Racialization, Evangelicals, and the US Empire: (Book Exhibit)
Transnational Salvations Across Korea, US, and Haiti Presenter:
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo Gabbie Mangaser, Burke Museum of Natural History and
Promise in Peril: Dr Pak Chue Chan, Promise Inc., and Culture
anti-communism between Asia and Iowa
Chris Chien, Tulane University F39
Poster Session:
“A Ubiquity Made Visible”: Non-Sovereign Visuality, Sojourners or What: The Ambiguity of Chinese Americans
Plastic Flowers, and Labor in Cold War Hong Kong in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands
Lucy Fang, University of California, Irvine (Book Exhibit)
Promiscuous Vocabularies: Tongzhi Culture as Reroutes Presenter:
of Infrastructure in post-Martial Law Taiwan Linfei Yi, University of Arizona
150 151
11:45am-12:45pm F41
Exhibitor Session - So You Want to Publish?
SC5 Asian American Feminisms Section (Ravenna B)
(Metropolitan Ballroom A) Chair: Jennifer A. Yee, California State University, Fullerton
Presenters:
SC6 Critical Adoption Studies Section Sophia Soberon, Council on American Islamic Relations -
(Ballard) Los Angeles, formerly with The Cambodian Family
Lucy Ngo, Ahri Center
SC7 History Section Uyen Hoang, Viet Rainbow of Orange County
(Capitol Hill) Minji Kim, Viet Rainbow of Orange County
Alex Sanchez, The Cambodian Family
SC8 Hmong Section My Nguyen, Viet Rainbow of Orange County
(Greenwood) Susan Cheng, Ahri Center
SC9 South Asian Section F42

On the Complexities of South Asian/America
(Issaquah A) (Ravenna C)
Chair: Sabnam Ghosh, University of Washington in St. Louis
SC10 Comfort Women Section Presenters:
(Issaquah B) Urnisa Karmakar, Texas A&M University
From Conception to Control: Navigating the Colonization
SC11 CHALIS Section of the Womb, Epigenetics and Eugenics
(Kirkland) Samah Choudhury, Ithaca College
Hasan Minhaj and the "Emotional Truth" of Being Muslim
SC12 Religion Section Jean Lee, Western Washington University
(Leschi) Women of Color Liberal Feminism in Gaiutra Bahadur's
Coolie Woman
SC13 Social Sciences Studies Section
(Medina) F43
Asian American Art in a Transnational/Transhistorical Frame
(Columbia)
F40
Plagues and Persecution Presenters:
(Ravenna A) Carlo Tuason, University of Southern California
Chair: Naoko Wake, Michigan State University Speed and Diasporic Time in the Hong Kong
Presenters: International Airport
Stephanie Lu, University of British Columbia Liz Kim, Texas A&M University
Jack London's Anxious Engagement with "Yellow Peril" Visualizing Race and Class in US Agriculture During the
Discourse 1930s: Hung Liu's Remaking of Dorothea Lange
Ryan Hackenbracht, Texas Tech University Phuong T. Vuong, University of California, San Diego
Japanese Americans and Shakespeare: Performing Yellow Woman As (Object/Plant/Land/Human) Being: In
Compliance in the Internment Camps Kelly Akashi's Formations Exhibit
Chassidy Wen, University of Washington
Plague and Persecution in San Francisco and Honolulu
Chinatown
152 153
F44
Asian American History Curriculum Development 1:00pm-2:30pm
in Standardized Curriculum and Heritage Schools F48 JAAS Session
(Seneca) (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Chair: Diana Kim, William & Mary
Participants: F49 Mentorship Session: Meet The Professor
Diana Kim, William & Mary (Ballard)
Collin Absher, William & Mary
F50
So you want to be a curator? Challenging the Discipline
F45
Naming Our Rage, Building Our Power of Asian American Studies to Train the Next Generation of
(University) AAPI Museum Professionals
Presenters: (Capitol Hill)
Katherine Nasol, AAPI Women Lead Chair: Theodore S. Gonzalves, Smithsonian Institution
Connie Wun, AAPI Women Lead Discussant: Tamara Bhalla, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lily Wong, American University County
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State Participants:
University Thanh Lieu, Smithsonian Institution
Grace Yasumura, Smithsonian American Art Museum
F46
Reframing the Middle: New Perspectives in Asian American Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific
Midwest Studies American Center
(Jefferson A)
Participants: F51
The Secret Histories of Trans Literature
Donna Doan Anderson, University of California, Santa (Issaquah A)
Barbara Chair: Ching-In Chen, University of Washington, Bothell
Rebecca Jo Kinney, Bowling Green State University Participants:
Giang Nguyen-Dien, University of Kansas V. Jo Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
Kong Pheng Pha, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chrysanthemum, Providence Poetry Slam
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento, Kansas State University Trish Salah, Queen’s University, Kingston
Lily Chen, University of Michigan
F52
Geographies of Entanglement: Waterways, Landscapes,
F47
Lau V Nichols (1974): 50 Years of Legacy in Education, and Diaspora
Language Access, and Civil Rights (Issaquah B)
(Jefferson B) Chair: Trisha Remetir, University of California, Riverside
Presenters: Participants:
Sally Chen, Chinese for Affirmative Action Natalia Duong, University of California, Los Angeles
Alice Cheng, Chinese for Affirmative Action Josephine Faith Ong, University of California, Los Angeles
Trish Morita-Mullaney, Purdue University Adhy Kim, Harvard University
Aimee Bahng, Pomona College
Neel Ahuja, University of Maryland, College Park
Jacinda Tran, Harvard University
154 155
F53
Reimagining Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies: F56
Cold War, Hot Takes: Unfreezing Asian Subjects
Reflections of SFSU Ethnic Studies Alum (Ravenna A)
(Kirkland) Discussant: Aaron Gozum, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Von Torres, Clovis Community College Presenters:
Participants: Tony Cho, University of California, San Diego
Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cal Poly Pomona The Imperial Gaze: State Descriptions of Korean
Giselle Dejamco Cunanan, California State University, Geography
Sacramento Aaron Gozum, University of California, San Diego
Sarah Lynn Miralles, Educator History Repeats Itself: Disco, Dictatorship and
Democracy in Here Lies Love
F54
Asian America Breaks the Internet: Complicating Teresa Naval, University of California, San Diego
Authenticity, Consumption, and Digital Communities National Study, Foreign Labor
(Leschi) Jae Hwan Lim, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Angel Trazo, University of California, Davis Pride Solidarity: The Modes of “Yielding” in the 20th
Presenters: Seoul Queer Parade
Angel Trazo, University of California, Davis
How the Asian Baby Girl (ABG) Went Viral: A Case Study F57
Global Asias and Diaspora: Genre, Space, and Identities
of Asian Female Hypersexualization and East Asian (Ravenna B)
Dominance on Asian American Social Media Chair: Ka-eul Yoo, University of California, Irvine
Kelli Kimura, University of California, Irvine Presenters:
Chopsticks and Clicks: Navigating Authenticity in Asian Jiyon Byun, University of California, Irvine
American Food Narratives Online Performing Korean American Daughter: Indebtedness
Zach Anderson, University of California, Los Angeles and Impersonation in Suki Kim's The Interpreter
#ThirstTrap: How Himbos, Kevin Nguyen, and Yue Chen, Yonsei University
Swagapinos Are Redefining Asian Masculinity Resonance from the Past to the Future: Comparative
on The Internet Analysis of Chinese and Western Mythologies in Science
Manny De Leon, University of California, Davis Fiction Films
Transnational Interactions on Kumu: Implications for Nayun Kwon, Yonsei University
Global Filipino Subjectivity Humanity for the Human Rats: The Abjection and
Agency of the Reyes Sisters in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s
F55
Asiatic Bodies, Transpacific Images Blu’s Hanging
(Medina) Soojin Jeong, University of California, Irvine
Chair & Discussant: Kent Ono, University of Utah Postcoloniality in Colors: White and Purple by Sata Ineko
Presenters:
Kelsey Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara
'Take a Look Around You. It’s Still Here.’: Stepping into
Masaki Fujihata’s BeHere/1942
Brenda Wang, University of California, Los Angeles
Deform me to your likeness': Toxic Longings in
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
Miya Moriwaki, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unearthing Narrative Intersections: Grounds for
Decolonial Solidarities and a Place-Based Study of
156 History 157
F58
Making the Asian American City F60
Asian American Activism: The Struggle to Bring Community
(Ravenna C) College to San Francisco's Chinatown
Chair: James Zarsadiaz, University of San Francisco (Seneca)
Discussant: Shelley Lee, Brown University Chair: Vincent Pan, Chinese for Affirmative Action
Presenters: Discussant: Lok Siu, University of California, Berkeley
Crystal Luo, Georgetown University Presenters:
With and against: Asian American nonprofits and Vincent Pan, Chinese for Affirmative Action
globalization in Oakland, 1977-1993 From Vision to Reality: The Role of Community Activism
Carolyn Lau, Brown University in Shaping the Future of San Francisco’s Chinatown
The Myth of an Asian Gambling Culture: Hao Zou, University of California, Davis
Casino Development in Flushing, New York Revising the Narrative Arc of Asian American Activism:
Meredith Oda, University of Nevada, Reno The Grassroots Struggle for the San Francisco City
Redrawing and Reimagining Communities and Selves: College Chinatown North Beach Campus Facility
Japanese American Resettlement in WWII Chicago Henry Der, Chinese for Affirmative Action Oral History
Project, a partnership with University of California Berkeley
F59
Place, Practice, and Ethics: Interracial Engagements of Asian American Research Center & Ethnic Studies Library
Spirituality, Land, and Relationality Building Our Future: Student By Student
(Columbia)
Chair: Tammy Ho, University of California, Riverside F61
Kuwentuhan as Transnational and Intergenerational Filipinx
Presenters: Praxis
Tammy Ho, University of California, Riverside (University)
“The land is a place where refugees are teachers”: Discussant: Michael Joseph Viola, Saint Marys College of California
Refugees from Myanmar, Traditional Ecological Presenters:
Knowledges, and Ethics of Burmese Re-settlement Amanda Solomon Amorao, University of California,
Eleanor Craig, Harvard University San Diego
“You don’t have to consume the space to exist”: Kuwentuhan as Decolonial Dialogue in San Diego’s
Entangled Aliveness in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Kuya Ate Mentorship Program
Himanee Gupta, SUNY, Empire State University Edwin Carlos, University of California, Berkeley
Cultivating Abundance on and off the Land Kuwentuhan Across Generations: Intragenerational
Nathan Samayo, Princeton Theological Seminary Participatory Methods & Intergenerational Exchanges
Fighting Emus Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, San Francisco State
Renee Susanto, Harvard University University
An Ethical Framework of Care: Lessons from Palestinian Kuwentuhan Across Generations: Intragenerational
Settler Colonialism for Asian Americans Participatory Methods & Intergenerational Exchanges
Annelle Maranan Garcia, San Francisco State University
Collective Care and Solidarity as Praxis in Transpacific
FA Movements
158 159
F62
Transnational Racialization, Empire, and Diasporic Identities F64
Returning to Kingston/Cha/Ozeki
in Asian/American Foodways (Jefferson B)
(Virginia) Chair: Heidi Amin-Hong, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Jin Choi, University of Maryland Presenters:
Presenters: Julia Walton, Columbia University
Megu Itoh, University of Maryland “I-I”: Transpacific Feminism and the Politics of Genre in
Cooking Through Colonial Tensions: Japanese Women Ruth Ozeki's Tale for the Time Being
Navigating Empire and Agency Under American Hans Su, The Pennsylvania State University
Occupation “Rain Dreams the Sound": Sonic Diaspora in Theresa
GJ Sevillano, The George Washington University Hak Kyung Cha's "Dictée" and "Mouth to Mouth"
Transpacific Kitchens: The Makings of the Diasporic Leah Jing McIntosh, University of Melbourne
Kusinera Maxine Hong Kingston's Autofictive Legacy
George Villanueva, Texas A&M University Mai Wang, University of Texas, Dallas
Comparative Racialized Foodways and Communicative Melville Vs. Whitman in Maxine Hong Kingston's
Belonging for Filipinx and Mexican Diaspora in Chicago Tripmaster Monkey
Corinne Mitsuye Sugino, Gonzaga University
Culinary Empire and Transnational Racialization in
Japanese Food Cultures
F63
Roundtable in Honor of Roger Daniels: A Tribute
(Jefferson A)
Chair: Greg Robinson, l'Université du Québec À Montréal
Discussant: Jonathan van Harmelen, University of California,
Santa Cruz
Participants:
Frank Abe, Resisters.com
Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University
Madeline Hsu, University of Maryland, College Park
Huping Ling, Truman State University
160 161
2:45pm-4:15pm F67
Games and Asia/America: A Roundtable
F65 Graduate Student Panel: Tea Time (Capitol Hill)
(Ballard) Chair: Christopher B. Patterson, University of British Columbia
Presenters:
F66
Racial Trauma, Mental Health & Healthcare Edmond Y. Chang, Ohio University
(Metropolitan Ballroom A) Imagining Asian American Games
Presenters: Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Loyola University Chicago
Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University, School of Communication
Maria Zhang, Mercer Island High School, High-Tech Orientalism at Work
Heejung (Julie) Kim, Nova Southeastern University Patel Miyoko Conley, Center on Race and Digital Justice
College of Allopathic Medicine, Romancing the Night Away: Queering Animate
Alicia Leong, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai & Hierarchies in Hatoful Boyfriend and Tusks
Joyce Mok, San Francisco State University Takeo Rivera, Boston University
Anti-Asian Hate, Racial Trauma and Posttraumatic Growth Asian, Adjacent: Utopian Longing and Model Minority
Richie Chu, University of California, Los Angeles Mediation in Disco Elysium
Association of Adverse and Positive Childhood Yasheng She, University of California, Santa Cruz
Experiences with Mental Health Outcomes Among Designing the Global Body: Japan’s Postwar Modernity
Asian Americans in Death Stranding
Kayan Khraisheh, Texas A&M University
Healthcare Equity Through Advocacy: Insights from the
Arab Community in the US
Jessica Montez, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Memoir and Memory: Tracing Transgenerational Trauma
in Asian American Families
162 163
F68
Research and Community in Asian American Graduate F69
Asian American Pedagogy and Student Life
Studies in the 2020s (Issaquah A)
(Greenwood) Chair: Mika Kennedy, Ithaca College
Chair: Bianca Ling, San Francisco State University Presenters:
Presenters: Janrey Javier, University of California, Berkeley
Shan Siddiqui, State University of New York, Farmingdale "Filipino Enough": Racism & Filipino American Student
Embraced or Exploited? Asian International Students in Leadership
U.S. Higher Education Pamela Sari, Purdue University &
Daniel Pai, Columbia University Manabu Taketani, Purdue University
Racial Melancholia and Transnational Identity Formation Connecting Asian American Studies and University
for Asian American "Third Culure Kids" Cultural Centers: Impact of Weekly Lecture Series on
Bianca Ling, San Francisco State University Faculty and Staff Belonging
Safety and Community Among Asian American Women/ Farah Nousheen, University of New Mexico
Female Small Business Owners UNM AAPI Resource Center: First Years, Insights, Analysis
Jeanelle Dyan Daus, San Francisco State University
Grief, Legacy, and Meaning in Asian American Families F70
Recontructing and Re-Imagining Community Storytelling:
Bereaved by Cancer Ethics, Memory, and Resistance
Nori Henk, San Francisco State University (Issaquah B)
Korean Adoptees Who Resettle in Korea (Permanently Chair & Discussant: Saba Vlach, University of Iowa
or Semi-Permanently) Presenters:
Melchor Bongato, San Francisco State University Victoria Pham, Northwestern University
Field Study of Asian Americans Living Fort Indiantown Gap: A Site of Contingency
with a Mental Illness Koby Song-Nichols, University of Toronto
Caleb Pascual, San Francisco State University Remembering to Eat: Finding Intertemporal Care and
Evolution of Asian Representation in American Nourishment through Writing Chinese Arizonan Food
Entertainment through Media Activism History
Jocelyn Canales, San Francisco State University Jin Chang, University of Iowa &
Malong Mentorship in the PEP (Pin@y Educational Kimberly Long, University of Iowa
Partnerships) Classroom “Let Me Tell You Who Not To Interview” An Oral Historian
Jo Pandac, San Francisco State University and Narrator’s Decision to Exclude ‘Important’ Rapists
Filipino American Oral History in Santa Maria, California from Community History
Eryca Antonio, San Francisco State University Michelle Lê, Independent Researcher
Filipino American Family Relationships after Infidelity Remember me in all my glory, in all my pieces, and all
my losses: The Memory of Little Saigon in the Oral
History of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California
164 165
F71
Asian American Pedagogies Now and Toward Collaborative F73
Across the (Pilipinx) Universe: Bridges and Divides in the
Futures Philippine Diaspora
(Kirkland) (Medina)
Chair: Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza, Cal Poly Humboldt Chair: Joaquin (Jay) Gonzalez, Golden Gate University
Saugher Nojan, San Jose State University Evelyn I. Rodriguez, University of San Francisco
Making SWANA and Muslim Diasporas Visible in Asian Labas sa mga Linya: Thinking Outside the Lines About
American Studies through Critical Juxtaposition the Philippine Diaspora
Lauren Arzaga Daus, University of California, Los Angeles Jenifer Wofford, University of San Francisco
Teaching with a RADical Asian American Studies Filipino American Art: An evolving conversation
Pedagogy Estelle Petrocelli, University of San Francisco
Jocyl Sacramento, California State University, East Bay & Assigned Pinoy at Birth: Queer Philippine Media
Danvy Le, California State University, East Bay Representation, a Comparison of Vice Ganda
Asian American Studies Across the Disciplines: and Jake Zyrus
Ethnic Studies-Political Science-Liberal Studies Leslie Leuterio, University of San Francisco
Partnerships in the Time of AB 1460 Foreigner vs. Family: A Study on What Defines 'Filipino,'
May Lin, California State University, Long Beach as Discussed on TikTok
Relational Ethnic Studies & Community-Rooted Learning
in Asian American Studies at Cal State Long Beach F74
Asian/American Classical Reception
(Ravenna A)
F72
Medina By the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival Chair: Kelly Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
(Leschi) Presenters:
Chair: Sharon Luk, Simon Fraser University Kelly Nguyen, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Maryam Kashani, University of Illinois, Refugee Biomythography: Linda Lê, Ocean Vuong
Urbana Champaign and Ovid
Participants: Erynn Kim, Yale University
Sharon Luk, Simon Fraser University Divided We Stand: Euripides’ Bacchae and the
Bilal Nasir, Pomona College Doubleness of Asian American Identity
Najwa Mayer, Boston University in Monica Youn’s From From
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University Kiran Mansukhani, Brown University
Youssef Carter, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Redefining Utopia: Caste in Plato’s Republic
Christopher Waldo, University of Washington, Seattle
Mapping the Mythological Los Angeles in Johanna
Hedva’s Odyssey Odyssey
166 167
F75
Reframing Storytelling and Activism in South Asian America: F77
Theorizing Asian American Aesthetics and Politics
Hidden Histories, Memories, Literatures Against the Legible
(Ravenna B) (Columbia)
Chair: Kavita Daiya, George Washington University Chair & Discussant: Bakirathi Mani, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Hardeep Dhillon, University of Pennsylvania Presenters:
Presenters: Balbir K. Singh, Concordia University
Gurkirat Singh Sekhon, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Opacity’s Abolitionist Value: Art and Community Defense
Genre and Generosity: Secular Sikhism Amidst Anti-Asian Violence
and Christian Sentimentalism Sue Shon, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Binod Paudyal, University of Maryland, College Park Race Authority: Reflections on the Death of the Author
Stories from the Margin: Reframing South Asian Vivian L. Huang, San Francisco State University
American Studies Queering Asian Abstraction: Bernice Bing, Inclusion,
Amrit Deol, California State University, Fresno and Inscrutability
Surveying Sedition: A History of Ghadar Publications Wendy Sung, University of California, Los Angeles
Across the Globe in the Early Twentieth Century Indistinguishability/Inscrutability: Tommy Kha’s Façade,
Joy Ma, Author Facial Recognition Technologies, and the Logics of Asian
The Deoliwallahs: The Chinese-Indian Experience American Faciality
in an Internment Camp
F78
Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen I
F76
Queer Asian American Diasporas in the 2020s: (Seneca)
Critical Queer Dialogical Perspectives Chair: Krystyn R. Moon, University of Mary Washington
(Ravenna C) Discussant: Sylvia Shin Huey Chong, University of Virginia
Chair & Discussant: Alexander Tang, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Presenters:
Presenters: Donatella Galella, University of California, Riverside
Aydin Quach, University of British Columbia "If You Want to Know Who We Are": Casting The Mikado
Where is “home” for the Queer Asian Diaspora?: as Multiracial Fantasy
Towards a Theory of Diasporic Joy and Resistance in Tara Rodman, University of California, Irvine
“Gaysian” America in the 2020s Cakewalking in Kimono
Zihan Loo, University of California, Berkeley Arnab Banerji, Loyola Marymount University
‘All Look At Me’: Performing Model Minority Masochism Shades of Brown: South Asia and South Asians in
in Gay Fetish Studio Pornography American Film, TV, and Stage
Bernice Chau, University of Toronto
Remembering an Queer Icon for 20 Years: Migration, F79
Asian American Studies Then and Now: By Us, For Us
Transnational Expansions of Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing’s (University)
fandoms and Collective Nostalgia of Hong Kong Chair: Ida Yalzadeh, Lehigh University
Gloria Pham, University of Wisconsin-Madison Participants:
Resignifying Vietnamese Fugi Yanyi, Asian American Literary Archive
Eng-Beng Lim, Dartmouth College
Ching-In Chen, University of Washington, Bothell
Sine Hwang Jensen, University of California, Berkeley
168 169
F80
Interrogating the Colonized Mind through Contemporary Art 4:30pm-6:00pm
Practices F83
Board Plenary:
(Virginia) Palestine and the Work of Solidarity in
Presenter: Asian American Studies
Sharon Ria, Washington University at St. Louis (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
Co-Discussant: Amira Jarmakani, San Diego State University &
F81
Roundtable on Land-Based Pedagogy and Filipinx Diaspora(s) Co-Discussant: Najwa Mayer, Boston University
(Jefferson A) Participants:
Chair: Robyn Rodriguez, Amado Khaya Foundation Umayyah Cable, University of Michigan
Participants: Dana Olwan, Syracuse University
Katherine Achacoso, Dartmouth College Lila Sharif, Arizona State University
Malaya Caligtan-Tran, Fulbright Research Grantee Mejdulene B. Shomali, University of Maryland
Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt, Laing/Hiroshima University
Shannon Cristobal, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa F84
Connecting Social Science, Its Methods & Asian American
May Farrales, Simon Fraser University Studies
(Ballard)
F82
On Asian American Feelings/Controversies Chair: Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk, Northern Illinois University
(Jefferson B) Presenters:
Chair: Martha Cheng Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenters: Exploring Ethnic Diversity in the Last Frontier: Gender,
Jul Parke, University of Toronto Immigration Generation, and Political Representation
Fan Ethnocentrism: Netflix's Singles Inferno and the Among Asian American Elected Officials
'Colourism Controversy' Guizhen Ma, Delta State University
Nancy Cho, Carleton College Racial Differences in Job Attitutes of Early-Career
Reading (and Teaching) Minor Feelings Academics: The Experiences of Asians and Asian
Helen Cho, Northwestern University Americans
The Love is Blind Bind: Asian Bodies and Reality TV Alex Chew, NORC University of Chicago &
Leland Tabares, Colorado College Daphne Kwok, AAPI Audience
Unhappy Asians: Decolonizing the Good Life The Development of High Quality Survey Research
in Lee Jin's Beef Access of AANHPI Populations
C.N. Le, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Intersections of Pan-Ethnic Marriages, Cultural
Trends, and Asian American Identity
170 171
F85
Bodies in Motion: Histories of Asian Labor in Gendered and F88
Locating Global Asias: Diasporic Placemaking in North
Racialized Space in Latin America America, Asia, and the Academy
(Capitol Hill) (Issaquah B)
Chair & Discussant: Tavleen Kaur, California State University, Fullerton Chair: Janet Louie, Harvard University
Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine Janet Louie, Harvard University
The Pativilca Rebellion: Chinese Labor and Male Transpacific Film Networks: Chinese-Language Theaters
Solidarity in Peru in Los Angeles
Hongyan Yang, Boston College Elissa “E” Domingo Badiqué, Cornell University
Chinese Servants: Food, Architecture and American Virtual Ludic Space is the Place Where We “ALL LOOK
Domestic Culture, 1880-1950 SAME”: Asian Cross-Ethnic Performance on New Media
Yareli Castro Sevilla, Harvard University Platforms
Networks of Solidarity/Redes de Solidaridad: Chinese Yareli Castro Sevilla, Harvard University
Mexican Intimacies amid Twentieth Century Sinophobia Mapping Asia-Latin America in Asian American Studies:
Rosanne Sia, University of British Columbia Chinese Mexican Food and Culinary Memories
The Promises of Inclusion, Affect, and Border-Crossing: Kevin Kandamby, University of California, Los Angeles
Asian American Entertainers in the Postwar Era AsianLatines in the United States: mixed diasporic
identity formation, cultural belonging, and intimacy
F86
Fish, Ice, and Spices: Sustaining an Asian American Critical in the 21st century
Food Studies
(Greenwood) F89
X Marks the Spot: Locating Taiwan and Northeast Asia in
Chair: Athia Choudhury, Duke University Asian/Amercica
Presenters: (Kirkland)
Anita Mannur, Miami University Chair: Christopher Fan, University of California, Irvine
Povvo Pride: Shabaz Ali, Luxury Ice and the Critique of Presenters:
Obnoxious Wealth Christopher Fan, University of California, Irvine
Sang Eun Eunice Lee, Indiana University, Bloomington Asian American Fiction after 1965: Transnational
Fishing Desires: Locating the Margins of the US Empire Fantasies of Economic Mobility
through Tuna Fishing in the Pacific Wendy Cheng, Scripps College
Andrew Parayil Boge, University of Iowa Lily Wong, American University
A New Era of Asian American Food Brand: Leo Ching, Duke University
The Racial Politics of Hyper-Authenticity
F90
The Intimacies of Kith: Between Asian America and
F87
Inter/Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Studying Vietnam's America's Asia
Global Diaspora(s) (Leschi)
(Issaquah A) Co-Chair: Carlina Duan, University of Michigan &
Chair: Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, New York University Co-Chair: Samuel Caleb Wee, Nanyang Technological University
Participants: Participants:
Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles Huan He, Vanderbilt University
Alvin Bùi, University of Washington, Seattle Carlina Duan, University of Michigan
Thi Nguyen, Independent Scholar Jane Wong, Western Washington University
Y Thien Nguyen, California State University, Dominguez Hills Urvi Kumbhat, Princeton University
Catherine H. Nguyen, Emerson College Primrose, University of British Columbia
172 173
F91
The Place of Marxism in Asian American Studies, F93
Creative Works in an AAS MA Program?:
Past and Present Q&A with AAS MA Alumni
(Medina) (Ravenna B)
Presenters: Chair: Veronica Anne Francisco, San Francisco State University
Jane Komori, University of British Columbia Discussant: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco
Excavating Labor in Asian American Studies State University
Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Presenters:
Antonio Gramsci and Asian American Studies: New Veronica Anne Francisco, San Francisco State University
Questions in a New Era of Incipient Fascism The Half ‘n’ Half Cafe: Queer Filipina American Young
and Anti-Asian Racism Adult Narratives
Calvin Cheung-Miaw, Duke University, Annie Sing, Bao Bao Somatics
Cynthia Gao, New York University & Embracing Emergence: An Autoethnograpy of Applying
Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley Somatics to Myself
Global Maoism Then and Now Kei Terauchi, San Francisco State University
Mark Chiang, University of Illinois at Chicago From Critical Thinking to Creativity (or How I Make Music
Asian Racialization and the Informal Economy Under to Say What I’m Really Saying)
Racial Capitalism Angelica Macalisang, San Francisco State University
Portraits of Filipina Healers: Reconnecting to and
F92
Asian American Filmmaking in the 21st Century: Creating Panumdoman (Memory)
The Perils and Pleasures of Narrative Plenitude
(Ravenna A) F94
Affective Undercurrents:
Chair: Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University Asian American Nostalgia, Yearning, Joy
Presenters: (Ravenna C)
Valerie Soe, San Francisco State University Chair: Annabelle Tseng, Columbia University
As Long As There Is Breath: Recent Experimental Asian Discussant: Summer Kim Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
American Filmmaking Presenters:
Brian Hu, San Diego State University Annabelle Tseng, Columbia University
A24 and the Asian American Prestige Film Subtle Intensities: Yearning & Desire
Viola Lasmana, Rutgers University - New Brunswick in Asian American Narratives
Asian American Affinities Yasmin Yoon, Northwestern University
Anita Wen-Shin Chang, California State University, East Bay A “strange new flatness”: situating nostalgia
Locality/Translocality: Asian American Documentary in the “rise of Asia”
Production in the 21st Century Chad Shomura, University of Colorado, Denver
Notes on Asian American Joy: or, Toward
an Affirmative Politics
174 175
F95
New Directions in Sikh American Studies: F97
Re/Cultivating Justice: Ecological and Decolonial
Interrogating Race, Religion, Caste, Gender, and Space Approaches to Race and the Land
(Columbia) (University)
Chair: Anneeth Kaur Hundle, University of California, Irvine Chair: Ga Young Chung, University of California, Davis
Presenters: Discussant: Karen Umemoto, University of California, Los Angeles
Sasha Sabherwal, Northeastern University Presenters:
Renovations and Rebuilding in the Ravidassia Ga Young Chung, University of California, Davis
Community and Sikh Diaspora of the Lower Mainland The Traveling Seeds: Agricultural Racial Capitalism and
British Columbia, Canada Decolonial Imagination
Amrit Deol, California State University, Fresno Robyn Rodriguez, Reimagination Farm
Mutiny on the Move: A History of Ghadar Publications Home/Land: Reflections on Land and Liberation
across the Globe in the Early Twentieth Century C. Lilian Thaoxaochay, University of California Agriculture
Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal, University of California, Riverside and Natural Resources
Stockton and the Panth: Understanding Stockton Southeast Asian “Refugee-Farmers” in the California
Gurdwara as a Transnational Institution Central Valley
Tavleen Kaur, California State University, Fullerton Pam Tau Lee, Environmental Justice Activist
Sikhs in Hollywood: Critical Visual Geographies and the Movement Builders and Solutionaries
Silver Screen Killing Machine
Navdeep Singh, Sikh American History Project F98
Abunai! Critical Nikkei Studies from the Margins
Reflections on Organizing Sikh Americans (Virginia)
Chair: Wesley Ueunten, San Francisco State University
F96
Racial Politics in the City of Angels: Presenters:
A View from South Asian America Kyle Kajihiro, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
(Seneca) The Un-making of a “Japanese American”
Discussant: Jigna Desai, University of California, Santa Barbara in U.S.-occupied Hawaiʻi
Presenters: Scott Tsuchitani, San Francisco State University
Hareem Khan, California State University, San Bernardino Learning from Iwaishima: Tracing Diasporic Strands of
‘Real over Perfect’: Ayurvedic Beauty Companies and Resistance
the Selling of Authenticity in Global Los Angeles Miya Sommers, Berkeley City College
Ahmed Afzal, California State University, Fullerton The Pandemic is a Portal: Radical Nikkei Organizing
Interrogating Working-Class and Undocumented South in the Time of COVID-19
Asian Transmigrant Experiences in a Pakistani Drama
Series, Jackson Heights
Bilal Nasir, Pomona College
Take Me to Freedom City: Looking to Lahore
and Gaza in Watts to Rethink Afro-Asia
176 177
F99
Diasporic Reframings and Critical Refugee Studies: 6:30pm-7:30pm
South Asian/American Studies Franklin Odo: Flâneur of Asian American History,
(Jefferson A) By Garrett Hongo
Co-Chair: Dorothy Fujita-Rony, University of California, Irvine & (Ballard)
Co-Chair: Kavita Daiya, George Washington University
Presenters:
Dorothy Fujita-Rony, University of California, Irvine 7:30pm
Making Visible What Has Not Been Seen: Indonesian F101
“Art of Work” Film Project: When Filipina/x/o American
American Migration and the Category of “Refugee” Studies Meets Hip Hop Dance
Gunindu Abeysekera, University of California, (Metropolitan Ballroom)
Los Angeles Chair: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University
Los Angeles “Nuwara”: Performing Arts Festivities in the Discussant: Roderick Daus-Magbual, Skyline College
Sri Lankan American Diaspora of Southern California Presenters:
Kavita Daiya, George Washington University Arlene Daus-Magbual, San Francisco State University
Toward Migrant Justice: Critical Refugee Studies and Patrick Cruz, The Company, Kinjaz, Westlake School for
Transnational South Asian Migration Stories the Performing Arts
Ann Thuy-Ling Tran, California State University,
Long Beach 8:00pm-9:30pm
Refugee Cultural Archives in Suspended Spaces AAAS Lit Cafe Night
of Global Việt Nam: KT Food Stories and (Ballard)
Gastro-cartographies of the Inscrutable Sponsored by APIAVote
F100
Diasporas in Film, Food, and Fiction
(Jefferson B)
Chair: John Park, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenters:
L.S. Kim, University of California, Santa Cruz
Asian American Film Studies: Histories and Pedagogies
Minu Park, University of California, Irvine
Food and Korean Diaspora: Embodying Belonging in the
Mundane
Da Som Lee, University of Maryland, College Park
Language in Transit: A Comparative Study of Min Jin
Lee's Pachinko in English, Korean, and Japanese
Jeff Noh, Clark University
Recovering Lost & Forgotten Koreans: Richard E. Kim
and Dai Sil Kim-Gibson's Documentary Aesthetics
178 179
8:15am-9:45am
S1Board Plenary:
The Role of Asian American Studies in K-12 Education
(Virginia)
Chair: Jason Oliver Chang, University of Connecticut
Participants:
William Gow, California State University, Sacramento
Virginia Loh-Hagan, San Diego State University
Karen Umemoto, University of California, Los Angeles
Devin Cabanilla, Seattle Public Schools
Virginia Nguyen, K-12 Practitioner
S2Thinking Filipinx Canadian Studies On, From & Through

British Columbia
(Capitol Hill)
SATURDAY,
Chair: May Farrales, Simon Fraser University
Discussant: James Pangilinan, University of British Columbia
Presenters:
May Farrales, Simon Fraser University
Reanimating Place: Stories of place and kinship in the
APRIL 27TH, 2024

diasporic lives of Filipinx peoples in northern
“British Columbia”
John Paul (JP) Catungal, University of British Columbia
Community Storytelling as Refusal and Reclamation:
A Genealogy of the “Kuwentong Pamamahay”
Oral History Project
Christine Añonuevo, University of Northern
British Columbia
A Filipinx poet(h)ics of relationality and responsibility
in so-called British Columbia
Allen B. Baylosis, University of British Columbia
Diasporic Dreaming: Staging Filipinx Migration and
Embodying Homecoming on Colonial British Columbia
Alyssa Reyes, Simon Fraser University
Migrant worker movement: the meanings of physical
activity for migrant workers in Canada
180 181
S3“Asian/America” Unbound: Towards Global Feminist, Queer, S6Hmong American Studies in the 2020s: Education, Health,
and Trans Diasporic Aesthetics and STEM
(Ballard) (Issaquah A)
Chair: Wenxuan Xue, Tufts University Chair: Aline Lo, Colorado College
Wenxuan Xue, Tufts University Kong Pheng Pha, University of Wisconsin-Madison &
Trans Diasporic Ancestors: Archipelagic Fabulation Ananthipol Thao, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
in Kama La Mackerel’s Multimedia Performances Hmong Studies as Buffer to Racism in STEM
Ryan Persadie, Connecticut College Ma Vang, University of California, Merced
The Indentured Promise: Locating Freedom Breaking up (with) Culture in Critical Hmong Studies
and the Politics of Harm in the Queer Fete Mai See Thao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Manjari Mukherjee, Tufts University The Refugee Comes Back to Life:
Minor Stories, Micro Communities: Tracing the Echoes Hmong Feminist Perspective on Life and Living
of Baghdadi Jewish Actresses on Bollywood Screen in the Chronicity of US Empire
Abigail Clemens, Skyline College
The Art is a Host, Ghost, and Guest: A Look at the Role S7Relationality and Solidarity in Critical Refugee
of Hospitality in Feminist Diasporic Aesthetics and Migration Research
(Issaquah B)
S5Undoing, Unbecoming: Grief, Care, and Asian American Chair: Thy Phu, University of Toronto
Artist-Scholarship Participants:
(Greenwood) Anh Ngo, Wilfrid Laurier University
Presenters: Rui Liu, New York University
Takeo Rivera, Boston University Moska Rokay, University of Toronto
Selling Salt: Grief Praxis & Diasporic Absurdism in the Maral Aguilera-Moradipour, University of Toronto
Work of Van Tran Nguyen
Van Ngoc Tran Nguyen, University of Maryland, College Park S8Asian Settler Decolonization
Selling Salt: Grief Praxis & Diasporic Absurdism (Kirkland)
in the Work of Van Tran Nguyen Chair: Sam Ikehara, University of California, Santa Cruz
Lena Chen, University of California, Berkeley Presenters:
Body/Work: Performances of Care by Massage Leah Kuragano, The University of Winnipeg
and Sex Workers in the Asian Diaspora The Land’s Warm Welcome: Relationality, Indigenous
Evan Sakuma, University of California, Berkeley Solidarity, and Asian Canadian Decolonization Activism
Already Elsewhere, All At Once: Performing Finality Ryan Buyco, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
as Mode of Radical Asiatic Existence “Drifting Islands, Still Water:” Travel Writing
and Filipinx American Critique in Okinawa
Candace Fujikane, University of Hawai’i
Asian Settler Activation: Restoring Mokuʻula
in Lahaina, Maui
182 183
S9Asian American Racialization, Community Health, S11

Inquires of Arrival: "Contemporary" Asian/American
and Environmental Imaginaries Dance/Studies in the 2020s
(Leschi) (Ravenna A)
Chair: Tamara Venit-Shelton, Claremont McKenna College Chair: Miya Shaffer, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters: Discussant: grace shinhae jun, University of California, San Diego
Hongdeng Gao, Harvard University Presenters:
Winning the New Gouverneur: A Multiethnic Health Magnolia Yang Sao Yia, University of California, Riverside
Movement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side Hmong Dance in the U.S. Diaspora:
Tamara Venit-Shelton, Claremont McKenna College A Contemporary Tradition
Tuberculosis and the Chinese American Environmental Preethi Ramaprasad, University of California, Riverside
Imaginary in San Francisco Movements and Migration: Bharatanatyam
Mich Ling, Rutgers University - New Brunswick Choreography in the United States
Race for the Pacific: Settler Science and East Asian MiRi Park, University of California, Los Angeles
Racialization in the 19th Century Freestyle Summit: Oral histories of B-Boy Cros One
Lisa Ng, University of California, Berkeley and B-Girl Asia One
“A little guy sitting over there changing the energy”: Sanchita Sharma, University of California, Los Angeles
Pháp Duyên Tự (Oakland Buddha) in Little Saigon Practice of Deep Resistance, Hope, and Resilience in
Contemporary Dance in Manipur
S10
Asian American Art, Photography, and Archives
(Medina) S12
Asian American Solidarity in Times of Crisis and Beyond
Chair: Bakirathi Mani, University of Pennsylvania (Ravenna B)
Discussant: Anna Pegler-Gordon, Michigan State University Participants:
Presenters: Deepa Iyer, Building Movement Project
Bakirathi Mani, University of Pennsylvania Mike Ishii, Tsuru for Solidarity
Family Photography and South Asian Diasporas Christina Reiko Shimizu, Puget Sound Sage
Susette Min, University of California, Davis Imraan Siddiqi, Council on American Islamic Relations,
Immigrant Acts of Love Washington State Chapter
stef torralba, Pomona College
Karaokeing Across US Empire
184 185
S13
Bending the Arc: Stop AAPI Hate Initiative at SFSU Then S15
(Re)Connecting Psychology with Asian American Studies:
and AA Cares Now Stereotypes, Discrimination, & Solidarity
Chair: Edith Chen, California State University, Northridge Chair: Michelle M. Lee, Amherst College
Loan Le, San Francisco State University Michelle M. Lee, Amherst College
Collection of Data Regarding Racialized Bullying of Asian When Race Persuades: Perceptions of Racially Diverse
Americans at Bay Area High Schools and Challenges Conservative Advocates
Krysty Shen, Stop AAPI Hate Richard (Rich) Chang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Community Partnerships to Educate Students: Racial Trauma, Critical Consciousness, and Intraminority
Youth Programs Solidarity Among BIPOC College Students
Mai-Nhung Le, San Francisco State University Jacqueline (Jaki) Yi, University of Washington, Bothell
Evolution of Stop AAPI Hate Initiative at SFSU and AA A Grounded Theory of How the Model Minority Myth and
CARES; Community Partnerships to Prepare Teachers Asian Cultural Contexts Shape Asian American Activism
Phillip Cha, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Shu-wen Wang, Haverford College
Asian American Initiative for Men (AAIM) Project Asian American Youth Activism and Solidarity: Youth as
Socializing Agents Within Dynamic Family Contexts
S14
Settler Colonialism in the Commemoration & Representation A. Chyei Vinluan, Yale University
of Japanese American WWII Incarceration Asian Americans’ Experience with Racism During the
(Columbia) COVID-19 Pandemic
Chair: Jane Komori, University of British Columbia Timothy Lee, The College of Idaho
Discussant: Karen Leong, University of New Mexico Model Minority Myth and Perpetual Foreigner
Presenters: Stereotype: The Gendered Nature of Asian American
Koji Lau-Ozawa, University of California, Los Angeles Stereotypes
Ha:san in History: Multiple Manifestations in an \ Rachel Song, University of Washington
Incarceration Camp Distinguishing White Supremacy and Anti-Blackness as
Hana Maruyama, University of Connecticut a Path Towards Intraminority Solidarity
The Power Dynamics of State-Based Reparations and Joyce P. Yang, University of San Francisco
Commemoration in Japanese American and Unangax̂ Vicarious Anti-Asian Racism and Psychological
World War II Forced Removals Consequences
Natasha Varner, Densho
Remembering Amache: Commemorating Historical
Trauma in the Long Shadow of Settler Memory
186 187
S16
What is Asian German Studies?: A Transatlantic S18
Appocalips: A New Video Installation Centering Vietnamese
Conversation on Social Movements and Field Formation Extras of Apocalypse Now
(University) (Jefferson B)
Chair: Lok Siu, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific
Discussant: Tessa C. Lee, Wheaton College, Massachusetts American Center
Presenters: Discussant: Việt Lê, Artist
Suin Roberts, Purdue University, Fort Wayne Presenters:
Asian Diaspora in the German Podcast Halbe Katoffl and Lan Duong, University of Southern California
the American Podcast Asian Enough Christopher Radcliff, Filmmaker
You Jae Lee, University of Tübingen Cathy Linh Che, Kundiman
The Betrayal of the “Model Minority”: Korean German Jess X. Snow, Independent Artist
Activism against Discrimination
Kien Nghi Ha, University of Tübingen 10:00am-11:30am
Disremembered and Unacknowledged: Anti-Asian S19
Presidential Plenary:
Racism Before and After German Reunification Examining Anti-Caste Reform in Revolutionary Times
Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Metropolitan Ballroom A)
@AsianGermanUpdates on Instagram: Trans-Atlantic Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
Digital Solidarity and Diasporic Empowerment Panelists:
Rishi Guné, University of California,Irvine
S17
Challenges and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Analysis Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council
of Asian American Religions
(Jefferson A) S20
Asian American Studies Now: Contemporary Opportunities
Chair: Joshua Garcia, The Graduate Theological Union and Challenges in Higher Education
Discussant: Joyce C. Chang, Baylor University (Ballard)
Presenters: Chair: Yvonne Y. Kwan, San Jose State University
Joyce C. Chang, Baylor University Co-Discussant: Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, AAPI Nexus &
Religious or Racial Belonging?: The Role of Racial Co-Discussant: Emiko Kranz, AAPI Nexus
Salience on Religious Switching for Asian Americans Presenters:
Shirley Lung, University of Denver Yvonne Y. Kwan, San Jose State University
Challenges and Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Navigating Hostile Terrains and Building Across
Analysis of Asian American Religions Difference: Implementing California Assembly Bill 1460
Chanhee Heo, Stanford University and the SJSU Ethnic Studies Collaborative
Imagination as Historical Source in Asian American Timothy Fong, Sacramento State University
Religious History The Fight for Ethnic Studies at Sacramento State
Linda Yun Ja Kwak, Boston University Jocelyn Pacleb, Cal Poly Pomona
Conundrums of Interdisciplinarity in Researching Asian Building Bridges for Asian American Studies at Cal Poly
Americans in Christian Contexts Pomona: Reflections on the First Years of the AB1460
Implementation
188 189
S21
Chinese America: Multicultural Imagination and Diasporic S24
De-Objectifying Ourselves: Moving Towards
Contention Community-Centered Representations and Work
(Greenwood) (Kirkland)
Presenters: Chair: May Lin, California State University, Long Beach
Runchao Liu, University of Denver Presenters:
Beyond multicultural sonic solidarity: affect, assimilation, Demetrius Tien, University of California, Irvine
and minor sentiments (Un)covering Angkor: A Postcolonial Analysis of Angkor:
Anqi Liu, St. Mary’s College of Maryland The Lost Empire of Cambodia
Re/imagined History and Politicalized Diaspora: Crystal Zhao, University of Texas at Austin
Jianan Qian’s “To the Dogs” and Yiyun Li’s Kinder The Creation of HMoob American Studies at
Than Solitude UW-Madison: A Social Movement for Institutional
Ping Qiu, University of Denver Legitimacy and Belonging
“Out of Place-ness”- Edith Eaton’s Politics of Space and Rivers Liu, University of Texas at Austin
Place in Her Literary Chinatown Cartographies of Fracture: Vietnamese Quotidian
Memory and Reconsidering the Meaning of Place, Race,
S22
Author Meets Respondents and Belonging in Texas After 1975
(Issaquah A) Charlotte Austria, California State University, Long Beach
Chair: Jyoti Puri, Simmons University Madison San Luis, California State University, Long Beach
Presenters: Dreaming & Enacting Asian American Futures of
Rumya Putcha, University of Georgia Collectivity: Khmer & Filipino American Youth-led Art &
The Dancer's Voice Organizing in Long Beach, California
Elizabeth Chin, American Anthropologist
Elliott Powell, University of Minnesota S25
Representing Asian Raciality on Stage and Screen II
S. Charusheela, University of Washington, Bothell (Leschi)
Chair: Randeep Singh Hothi, University of California, Los Angeles
S23
Misfit Narratives: On (Not) Belonging in Asian American Discussant: Krystyn Moon, University of Mary Washington
Studies Presenters:
(Issaquah B) Randeep Singh Hothi, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Jason Coe, University of Hong Kong Background, Form and Content:
Presenters: The Ephemera of Race on Screen
Jason Coe, University of Hong Kong Melissa Phruksachart, University of Michigan
Beefing with Beef: the Uncomfortable Affordances of Racial Remediation in Media Archives (Part 3)
(East-)Asian American Narrative Plenitude Sylvia Chong, University of Virginia
Alan Williams, University of Washington Sounding Yellowface: Racial Acoustics Before and After
Resurfacing a Queer Play in Homonationalist Times: the Talkie Revolution of 1927
Soon-Tek Oh’s Tondemonai—Never Happen!
Kim Park Nelson, Winona State University
Resolving Asian Adoptee Multiversity: Investigating and
Reclaiming Possible Lives
Crystal Kwok, Blurring the Color Line
Blurring the Color Line: Missed Opportunities to Discuss
Afro-Asian Relations on the Film Festival Circuit
190 191
S26
Feminisms III: Asian American Feminisms Pedagogy S29
AB 1460 and Beyond: The Continued Struggles for Ethnic
Workshop Studies at the CSU Campuses
(Medina) (Ravenna C)
Chair: Chrissy Lau, San Francisco State University Chair: Gina Masequesmay, California State University, Northridge
Chrissy Lau, San Francisco State University Gina Masequesmay, California State University, Northridge
Teaching Asian American Women’s History through a Fighting White Supremacy and Neoliberalism at the CSU
Feminist Lens Grace Yeh, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Sunhay You, Rhode Island School of Design AB 1460 implementation at Cal Poly, SLO
Translating Feminisms Across the Pacific Ocean Jeremiah Sataraka, California State University, Bakersfield
Grace En-Yi Ting, University of Hong Kong The 411 with Ethnic Studies at CSU Bakersfield
Reimagining Asian American Feminist Pedagogy Mai-Nhung Le, San Francisco State University
from Hong Kong Fighting to Decenter Eurocentric Epistemologies: Asian
American Studies and the Implementation of AB 1460 at
S27
Empowering Equity: Academic Solidarity and Asian San Francisco State University
American Rhetoric in the Face of Anti-Asian Hate May Fu, California State University, Los Angeles
(Ravenna A) AB 1460 implementation at Cal State LA
Participants:
Jade Higa, ‘Iolani School in Hawai‘i S30
Art for the People: Sustaining Community Practices
Edward Hunter Lee, ‘Iolani School in Hawai‘i from the 60s to the Future
Calvin McMillin, ‘Iolani School in Hawai‘i (Columbia)
Chair: Chad Shomura, University of Colorado, Denver
S28
Southeast Asian Refugees' Negotiation and Refusal in the Participants:
Home and Community Spaces Jess X. Snow, Filmmaker
(Ravenna B) A.E. Hunt, Filmmaker
Chair: Thuy Vo Dang, University of California, Los Angeles Diane C. Fujino, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presenters: Saiyare Rafaei, Artist
Justine Trinh, Washington State University Kill Joy, Artist
“Thanks Mom and Dad:” Harm and Compulsory
Gratitude in Vietnamese American Memoirs S31
Student Organizer Perspectives: Collective Strategizing
Phuc To, University of California, San Diego for Student-Led AAS Movements
"The Rise of Asian American Non-Profit Industrial (Seneca)
Complex and Its Rebels: Southeast Asian Activists and Chair: Marjorie Antonio, University of Maryland
Organizers in Orange County" Participants:
Ann Ngoc Tran, University of Southern California Joshua Alexander, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Uncharted Waves: Alternate Routes, Refusals, and Rohit Kataria, Vanderbilt University
Returns on the Boat Lena Mai, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Audrey Fong, Chapman University Jessica Huyen Nguyen, University of Maryland,
To stay home or to experience Real Life: Exploring College Park
tensions in Anthony Veasna So’s “The Shop”
192 193
S32
Time for Myanmar: Our Past, Present, and Future S34
Towards Decolonization: Troubling Empire and State
(University) Violence
Chair: Filbert Aung, Brown University (Jefferson A)
Participants: Chair: Leah Kuragano, The University of Winnipeg
Filbert Aung, Brown University Presenters:
Yema Yang, Disability Justice Scholar Hyewon Yi, State University New York, Old Westbury
Khin Hla Oo, Harvard University Decolonizing Narratives: Maryrose Cobarrubias
Jonathan Chu, University of Washington Mendoza's Filipino-American Identity
Kathryn Aung, Diaspora Scholar and Community Advocate Jason Vu, University of Southern California
Don Nuam, Pepperdine University Eyes in the Sky: Aerial Reconnaissance and the
Dim Mang, Community Organizer Aesthetics of Capture
Jenny Par, Environmental Justice Advocate Richard Lim, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
The Challenges Facing Asian American Political-Legal
S33
Tactics and Theories for a Global Asias Praxis: Approaches to Police Surveillance
A Roundtable Discussion Angela May, McMaster University
(Virginia) The Legacies and Limits of Asian Canadian Activism:
Chair: Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, University of California, Los Angeles Complicating the Myth of Powell Street Festival
Discussant: Tina Chen, Pennsylvania State University
Participants: S35
Transpacific Entanglements and Possibilities
Desiree Valadares, University of British Columbia (Jefferson B)
Andrew Way Leong, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Michael Schulze-Oechtering, California State University,
Junyoung Verónica Kim, University of Pittsburgh East Bay
Diego Luis, Tufts University Presenters:
Naveen Minai, University of California, Los Angeles Michael Schulze-Oechtering, California State University,
East Bay
The Transpacific Murders of Silme Domingo and Gene
Viernes as Counter-Solidarity
Casey Tokita, Arizona State University
Potential Solidarities: Linked Fate Among Asia-Pacific
Climate-Induced Migrants?
Anzi Dong, Arizona State University
Working against Big Brothers, Remaking transnational
Chinese feminism in the Age of Neoliberal
Anti-Intersectionality
194 195
11:45am-12:45pm S38
On Asian American Sport
SC14 East of California Section (Leschi)
(Metropolitan Ballroom A) Chair: Rachel Lim, California State University, Sacramento
Presenters:
SC15 Queer Studies Section Seonah Kim, University of Washington &
(Ballard) Keisuke Kimura, Miami University
Defying Political Gravity: Asian American Affective and
SC16 Critical Mixed Section Tactical Narratives About Ailing Eileen Gu
(Greenwood) Rachael Joo, Middlebury College
Growing Green: Speculating on Golf in the Korean
SC17 SWANA Section Diaspora
(Issaquah A) Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo, Hamilton College
Invisible Resistance: War, Anticolonialsim, and the
SC18 Filipinx and Filipinx American Section Practice of Filipino Martial Arts in the U.S.
(Issaquah B)
S39
Student Voice in High School Asian American Studies
S36
Hear Us Out: Centering South Asian American Student Courses Workshop
Experiences in the Classroom (Medina)
(Capitol Hill) Presenter:
Chair: Amy Pozza, Saint Mary’s Hall Christine Loui, Marin Academy
Presenters:
Amy Pozza, Saint Mary’s Hall S40
Half Baked Ideas Take 2: Elevator Pitches & Feedback
Reflections on Teaching and Belonging in 10 Minutes or Less
Helen Trottmann, Saint Mary’s Hall (Ravenna A)
Textbook Matters: Strategies for Empowering Students Chair: Julia H. Lee, University of California, Irvine
to Interrogate Texts Participants:
Rusham Goyal, Saint Mary’s Hall Timothy August, Stony Brook University
Hearing Student Voices: South Asian American Falu Bakrania, San Francisco State University
Experiences in the High School World History Classroom Jennifer Ho, University of Colorado, Boulder
Betsy Huang, Clark University
S37
On Refugee Poetics Jan Padios, Williams College
(Kirkland) Sejal Shah, Author
Presenters:
Quynh Nhu Le, University of South Florida S41
A Culturally Humble Workshop on Healing Mindfulness Tools
“Feminist Refugee Epostemology" and the Sensorium of for Teaching/Living Amid Historical Trauma
Settler Racial Violence (Ravenna B)
Sean Metzger, University of California, Los Angeles Presenters:
On Refugee Performance Himanee Gupta, State University New York, Empire State
Jey Saung, University of Washington, Seattle University
Reading the Resident Alien: Octavia Butler's Sharon Suh, Seattle University
"Bloodchild" and the Asian American Archive Kathy Yep, Pitzer College
196 197
S42
Anti-Asian and Anti-Black Violence S44
Family, Womanhood & Motherhood
Chair: Roy Vũ, Dallas College Presenters:
Presenters: Michelle Lee, Case Western Reserve University
Michael Nishimura, University of California, Santa Barbara “An Unnatural Taste in Beauty": Reframing disfigurement
Carceral Afterlives: LA Sheriff Gangs, Anti-Black as a Feminist Practice in Asian American Art
Violence, and the Weaponization of Janess Tiffanie Vo, Indiana University, Bloomington
Alex Nguyen, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence & Parenthood Premiums and Penalties among Asian
Sophie Yap, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence American Workers
Gun Violence in Asian American Communities Paolina Lu, New York University
Anna Storti, Duke University Gutting Grasshoppers: Skill, Distinction, and Interspecies
The Asian/White Subject: Multiracialism and Asian Intimacy With a Family of Tai Dam Forager
Americanist Critique
Justine Guichard, Université Paris Cité S45
Discourse, Rhetoric & Framing: Apologies, Apologists,
The Life and Death of In Ho Oh: A Korean American China & Atlanta
Cold War Story (University)
Chair: Julie Ham, Brock University
S43
Race, Education & Student Life Presenters:
(Columbia) Martha Cheng, Rollins College
Chair: Yung-Yi Diana Pan, City University New York An Interdisciplinary Study of Governement Apology and
Presenters: the Historical Imagination: The Case of the APO
Edward Curammeng, California State University, Juliet Letteney, Texas A&M University
Dominguez Hills & Colorblind Crimes & Spa Stigma: Shaping the Atlanta
Tracy Buenavista, California State University, Northridge Shooting as Sex Worker Violence or Asian Hate
Asian American Critical Race Solidarity: Applying an Alexander Jin, Princeton University
Ethnic Studies Education Praxis Trafficked and Rescued: Travails of the Chinese
Yubing Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Slave Girl"
Chinese American Students' Understanding of the Marian Sciachitano, Washington State University
U.S.'s Difficult History of Racism Why ‘Suzie Wong' Died: Meditations on Misogynasia,
Tracy Iftikar, Arizona State University White Christian Masculinity & the Atlanta Spa Murders
Seeing Asian American Students in First-Year Composition
Anshika Bhasin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Unveiling the Unheard Voices: Uncovering Raciolinguistic
Ideologies Impacting Indian American Students
198 199
S46
Relationality & Contestation Across Borders, S49
“Hello? Is Anybody Out There?”:
Racial/Ethnic Groups & Political Praxis A Roundtable on Vivian L. Huang's Surface Relations
(Virginia) (Issaquah A)
Chair: Nina Sobers, University of Washington, Seattle Chair: Summer Kim Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters: Discussant: Vivian Huang, San Francisco State University
Naomi Joseph, University of California, Santa Barbara Participants:
“...Until Black Lives Matter": A Comparative Content Seulghee Lee, University of South Carolina
Analysis of Asian- and South Asian American Org Kelly I. Chung, Williams College
Saranyan Uthayakumar, University of Southern California Clara Chin, University of California, Santa Barbara
How Does the Diaspora Dream? Interrelating Ava L.J. Kim, University of California, Davis
Cambodian American and Eelam Tamil Diasporas'
Healing S50
The Legacies of Aiiieeeeee!
Darren Yau, Princeton University & An Anthology of Asian-American Writers
Andrew Hahm, Princeton University (Issaquah B)
On the Promises of Political Asian America: Chair: Eunsong Kim, Northeastern University
Grace Lee Bogg's Political Theory and Practice Participants:
Shawn Wong, University of Washington
1:00pm-2:30pm Tara Fickle, Northwestern University
S47
Mentorship Panel: Job Market Genji Amino, Author
(Ballard) Willyce Kim, Poet
Chair: Sony Coranez Bolton, Amherst College
Participants: S51
At the Margin of Family: Empire, Legal Marriage, and Asian
Martin Manalansan IV, Rutgers University Exclusion in the Early Twentieth Century
Chien Ting Lin, National Central University, Taiwan (Kirkland)
Ava Kim, University of California, Davis Chair & Discussant: Mary Lui, University of California, Los Angeles
Presenters:
S48
More Than 'Me-Search'; Autotheory as Asian/Americanist Eri Kitada, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Practice Invisible Families that Made U.S. Empire: A Socio-Legal
(Greenwood) History of Marriages in the Colonial Philippines
Chair: Angela Rain Kim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Sonia C. Gomez, Santa Clara University
Presenters: Issei Bachelors: Unmarried Men at the Margins
Angela Rain Kim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Hardeep Dhillon, University of Pennsylvania
Working Through the Korean Body: Auto-theory in the The Asian American Family in the Wake of 1924
Analysis of Korean American Embodiment
Karen Siu, Rice University
Việt Nam is Neither A War Nor A War Memorial
Sharan Kaur Mehta, University of New Mexico
Negotiating Identities, Trauma, and an Ethic of Self-Care
in Research
200 201
S52
Asian/American Visualities of Militarism S55
Comparative Indenture
(Leschi) (Ravenna B)
Chair & Discussant: Thy Phu, University of Toronto Chair: Rebecca N. Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
Minh Huynh Vu, Yale University Rebecca N. Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
Quadrilaterals of War: The Gridded Geometries Social Reproduction and the Two Coolie Trades
of U.S. Empire Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Emily Mitamura, Brown University Knot my Cup of Tea: Coolie Labor and Racial
A Science of Fictions: Notes Toward the 1969 Moon Comparability in Plantation Worlds
Landing for U.S. Empire in Southeast Asia Najnin Islam, University of Connecticut
Madeleine Han, Yale University Comparative Racialization, Caste, and the Indian Coolie
The Cold War Ended, and Orion’s Choco Pie Won Amrita Mishra, Berea College
Kylie Ching, University of California, Irvine Conditional Humanness: Toward a Theory
Multiple Returns of the Japanese American Incarceration of Brown-Yellow Indentured Embodiment
Grayson Lee, University of Toronto
Teaching Bruce Lee and Cops: Transpacific S56
Speculating Afro-Asia
entanglements in Korean martial mastery (Ravenna C)
Chair & Discussant: Justin Quang Nguyên Phan,
S53
Being "Asian" on Stolen Land: Asian Racialization, University of Illinois at Chicago
Migration, and Settler Property Relations Presenters:
(Medina) Melanie Abeygunawardana, University of Minnesota,
Chair: Danielle Wong, University of British Columbia Twin Cities
Presenters: Flesh as/and Surface: Speculating Afro-Asian Materiality
Tintin Yang, Simon Fraser University Arianna Qianru James, University of Pennsylvania
Raced Subjects: Real Estate and Asian Racialization Techno-Passing: Gender, Sexuality, and the Virtual Body
in Vancouver in Black Mirror’s “Striking Vipers”
Primrose, University of British Columbia Janet Kong-Chow, University of Rhode Island
Asian Migrancy Across the Pacific and Different Invasive Species and Racial Contagion
Enactments of Indigeneity
Yi Chien Jade Ho, Simon Fraser University S57
Illiberal/Liberal, Asia/America
Practicing Decolonization: Asian Racialization and (Columbia)
Immigrant-Settler Responsibilities Participants:
Christine Kim, University of British Columbia
S54
The Win is Also a Loss: Asian American Studies' Oceanic, Crystal Baik, University of California, Riverside
South Asian, and Activist Contradictions... Hentyle Yapp, University of California, San Diego
(Ravenna A) Christopher Fan, University of California, Irvine
Participants: Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
Joyce Pualani Warren, California State University,
Northridge
Simmy Makhijani, California State University, Northridge
Alfred P. Flores, Harvey Mudd College
Leora Kava, San Francisco State University
Ponipate Rokolekutu, San Francisco State University
202 203
S58
Forms of Whiteness in Asian American Studies in the 2020s S60
Untangling Japan-U.S. Imperial Legacies in Transnational
(Seneca) Asia America
Chair: Sue-Im Lee, Temple University (Virginia)
Presenters: Chair: David Roh, University of Utah
Sue-Im Lee, Temple University Presenters:
Becoming Literature Through Literary History Sam Ikehara, University of California, Santa Cruz
Min Kyung Boo, Temple University The Speed of Shelter: Horizontal Returns and the
Challenging Whiteness through Denying Identification Respatialization of Peace
Elda Tsou, St. John’s University Adhy Kim, Harvard University
The Affirmative Politics of Being Cauc/Asian Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and Counterinsurgent Narration
Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania Yuki Obayashi, San Francisco State University
White Boys in Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh A Crush of Empires: The Comfort Women Memorial
Susie Pak, St. John’s University in San Francisco
Storytelling, Whiteness, and Discursive Form of Power
S61
Using Participatory Action Research to Mentor Students
S59
Outside Asian "America"/Inside Indonesia: The Politics and and Establish a Pathway to the Professoriate
Poetics of Indonesian-American Transnational Subjectivities (Jefferson A)
(University) Participants:
Chair & Discussant: Viola Lasmana, Rutgers University, Angela-MinhTu Nguyen, California State University, Fullerton
New Brunswick Richard Chang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Presenters: Que-Lam Huynh, California State University, Northridge
Teraya Paramehta, University of Southern California Nathan Lieng, Purdue University
A Vulnerable Observer in Bali: Grief, Reflectivity, and Nan Ma, Bellevue College
Complicity
Reuven Nathaniel Pinnata, University of Washington S62
Sex, Gender, and Fetish
The Chrysanthemum and the Butterfly: Madama (Jefferson B)
Butterfly as a Transcolonial Nyai Narrative Chair: Asha Jeffers, Dalhousie University
Anselma Widha Prihandita, University of Washington, Presenters:
Seattle Hinako Ishikawa, San Francisco State University
Transnational, Transcultural, and Trans-Epistemic Negotiating Hentai: Fetishization of Japanese Women
Literacy Practices among Indonesian Graduate and Reclaiming Sexual Agency
Student-Scholars in the US Nida Sanglimsuwan, University of California, Los Angeles
Overlapping Patriarchies: How Gender Works in an
Asian American Family Business
Julie Ham, Brock University
Race, Hypersexualization and Erotic Capital in Sex Work
Elaine Almeida, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Simu Liu and the Subversion of Asian American
Masculinity
204 205
2:45pm-4:15pm S66
Aiyo: Reimagining Anti-Colonial Resistance and Futurities
S63
The Future of Japanese American History: in Sri Lanka and the Diaspora
Reshaping the Field (Issaquah A)
(Ballard) Chair: Mihiri Tillakaratne, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Alice Yang, University of California, Santa Cruz Participants:
Participants: Gunindu Abeysekera, University of California, Los Angeles
Greg Robinson, l'Université du Québec À Montréal Saranyan Uthayakumar, University of Southern California
James Sun, Yale University Shenali Pilapitiya, University of Southern California
Jonathan van Harmelen, University of California, Santa Cruz Ravindu Ranawaka, University of California, Los Angeles
Christian Heimburger, The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints S67
Theorizing From the Upper-Midwestern Margins:
Decentering the Coasts in Asian American Studies
S64
Standing Up: Asian American Comedy and Public Affect (Issaquah B)
(Capitol Hill) Chair: Karin Aguilar-San Juan, Macalester College
Chair & Discussant: Caroline Kyungah Hong, Queens College, Presenters:
City University New York Christina Hughes, Macalester College
Presenters: Southeast Asian Refugeehood, Militarized Citizenship,
Cassie M. Miura, University of Washington, Tacoma and the American Carceral State: Lessons from Orange
Asian American Women in Stand-Up Comedy: County to the Twin Cities
Laughter as a Minor Feeling kt shorb, Macalester College
Michelle S. Liu, University of Washington, Seattle Midwest Methodology: Asian American Aesthetic,
Accenting Laughter: Re-embodying the Past Localized Resources, and “Home” at Theater Mu
in the Present Ly Thúy Nguyễn
Sophie B. Tô, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Asian Americanist Pedagogy for the Twin Cities:
Standup Down Home: How Asian American Comedians Critical Refugee Studies and Settler/colonial Studies
in the US South Tell Stories about Racialization in Conversation
and Health
S68
“Diasporic Vision” from the Margins: Transdisciplinary
S65
New Reading Practices in Asian American Literature Interventions within Korean Diaspora Studies
(Greenwood) (Kirkland)
Chair: Josen Diaz, University of San Diego Presenters:
Presenters: Margaret Rhee, The New School
Eunsong Kim, Northeastern University Kelly Rich, Harvard University
Forms of Address Anthony Yooshin Kim, American Documentary
Paul Nadal, Princeton University Unchained Melody: Songs from the Noraebang Diaspora
The Asian American Character of Logistics
Tara Fickle, Northwestern University
“You want to be Godmother of the Asian American
writing movement?”: Hisaye Yamamoto, Wakako
Yamauchi, and Momoko Iko’s impact on Aiiieeeee!
206 207
S69
KingDOOM - A Visual History: Saving Seattle's Chinatown, S71
As Long as it's Done the "Right" Way: Challenging Liberal
1968-2022 Innocence Across Nikkei WWII Historical...
(Leschi) (Ravenna A)
Chair: Connie So, University of Washington, Seattle Chair: Elena Tajima Creef, Wellesley College
Discussant: Dylan Hartono, University of Washington, Seattle Presenters:
Presenters: Julia Shizuyo Popham, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ali Maunu, University of Washington, Seattle Reanimating Carceral Logics through Sympathy and
Intersections between People of Color during COVID-19 Awe: A Look at Representations of Art from the
Quarantine Japanese American World War II Incarceration Camps
Dani Canaleta, University of Washington, Seattle Mika Kennedy, Ithaca College
Scapegoating AANHPI During Time of COVID-19 “Now Can I Go?” When the Emperor Was Divine Puts on
Quarantine in College a Cowboy Hat, Turns Twenty, and After All That,
Wen Imara So Eckelberg, University of Washington, Japanese Americans are Still Enemy Aliens in America’s
Seattle Heartland
CID Fights 1968-1972, 2020-2022 Kaitlin Findlay, Cornell University
Brooklyn Hose, University of Washington, Seattle A Humanitarian Vision Recomposed: Japanese
Drawing, Storytelling as Therapy Canadians Negotiation of the International Archive of
Frederick Lu, University of Washington, Seattle Forced Displacement and Dispossession
Self-hate and the Need for Ethnic Studies, Self-hate
and the Need for Asian American Studies S72
Secularism, Sexuality, and Service: Interrogating the
Hana Natsuhara, University of Washington, Seattle Boundaries of Asian American Christianity
Accountability and Storytelling During and After (Ravenna B)
COVID-19 Quarantine Chair: Derek Wu, University of California, Berkeley
Co-Discussant: Justin Tse, Singapore Management University &
S70
Denshosha: Memory Keepers of Transpacific Nikkei Co-Discussant: Ellen Zhou, Singapore Management University
Identities Presenters:
(Medina) Derek Wu, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Gail M. Nomura, University of Washington ‘In a House We Didn’t Build’: The Shadow of White
Presenters: and Black Religio-Racial Politics on Suburban Asian
Elysha Rei, Queensland University of Technology Americans in Urban Community Development
Japonica: Japanese species in contemporary paper Karis Ryu, Yale University
cutting art as an allegory of Nikkei identity For Church and State: How American Evangelicalism
Andrea Mariko Grant, University of Victoria Constructs, and Leaves Out, Asian American
Nikkei Art in Transnational Perspective Subjecthood
Jeannie Shinozuka, Washington State University Joshua Garcia, The Graduate Theological Union
Global Biotic Borders: Insect and Human Migration Comparing the Secular Turns of the Asian American and
Along the Migration Frontier in the Pacific Northwest Latinx American Theological Disciplines
Justin Tse, Singapore Management University &
Ellen Zhou, Singapore Management University
Marital Dreams: Revisiting Gender/Queer Debates in
Asian American Evangelicalism
208 209
S73
Imagining and Enacting Liberation for Transnational S76
Speculative Uses of Asian American Illegibility
Myanmar Communities (University)
(Ravenna C) Chair: Heejoo Park, The Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Yema Yang, Poet Presenters:
Presenters: Heejoo Park, The Pennsylvania State University
Filbert Aung, Brown University The Not-so Model Family: Surveillance and Resistance
Beyond Needing to be Saved: Intergenerational/ in Rachel Heng’s Suicide Club and Jessamin Chan’s
Transnational Disablement and Care Webs Among The School for Good Mothers
Myanmar Diaspora in the United States Lilika Ioki Kukiela, University of Toronto
Yema Yang, Poet Anthological Speculations: Aiiieeeee! as Speculative
Embodied Worlds of Collective Love: Critically Re- Fiction
Turning Liberation in my Burmese Disabled Poetry Ananya Bhardwaj, The George Washington University
Kathryn Aung, University of Tulsa Building and Destroying Kinship: Speculative Futurities
Networked Protest of the Burmese Diaspora on Zoom of the Asian American Migrant
Olivia Matsuoka, University of Oregon
S74
Disciplinary Futures: Sociology and Asian American Studies Reimagining Usefulness: Queer Use in Natural Beauty &
Converse - Social Science Caucus Panel Severance
(Columbia) Shebati Sengupta, University of New Mexico
Chair: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College Disrupting the Canon Event: Kinship and Narrative
Presenters: Change in Contemporary Animation
Hōkūlani K. Aikau, University of Victoria
Visioning Alternative Futures with Octavia E. Butler’s S77
Critical Pilipinx American Mental Health: Thinking with
Wild Seed Heterogeneity as Colonial Descendants and Se
Kevin Escudero, Brown University (Jefferson B)
Education for Community Empowerment: Layered Chair: Joanna La Torre, University of Washington
Histories of Colonization and the Ongoing Movement Participants:
for Decolonization in Guåhan’s Social Studies Curriculum Joanna La Torre, University of Washington
Miliann Kang, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Cindy Sangalang, University of California, Los Angeles
Cripping the Model Minority Mother: Race, Disability, and Lainey Sevillano, Portland State University
Reproductive Exclusion in Asian American Families Dale Dagar Maglalang, New York University
Nadia Kim, Texas A&M University Cliff Bersamira, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Thompson
“Can’t We All Just Get Along?” Public Opinion on Race School of Social Work & Public Health
in LA Decades after Rodney King
4:30pm
S75
Embodying Non-Linear Time: Asian North American Business Meeting
Meditation on Accumulating Past, Present, Future (Ballard)
(Workshop)
(Seneca)
Presenter: 5:30pm
Cathy Xu, University of British Columbia Awards Reception
(Metropolitan Ballroom)
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Keva X. Bui......................F8, F23 Lily Chen...............................F46

Alvin Bùi................................F87 Sally Chen.............................F47
INDEX Lucy Burns............................T26 Sonya Chen...........................T70
Ryan Buyco............................S8 Tina Chen.............................S33
Zainab Abdali.........................F16 Paul Michael Leonardo Atienza.... Jiyon Byun.............................F57 Yue Chen...............................F57
Frank Abe......................T27, F63 ......................................F21, F71 Devin Cabanilla........................S1 Alice Cheng...........................F47
Melanie Abeygunawardana....S56 Timothy August.....................S40 Umayyah Cable.....................F83 Jih-Fei Cheng........................F27
Gunindu Abeysekera.....F80, S66 Filbert Aung...................S32, S73 Malaya Caligtan-Tran.............F81 John Cheng...........................T36
Collin Absher.........................F44 Kathryn Aung................S32, S73 Keith Camacho......................F13 Martha Cheng................F82, S45
Pau Abustan............................T2 Charlotte Austria............F22, S24 Jocelyn "Juice" Canales...T1, F68 Wendy Cheng................T99, F89
Katherine Achacoso..............F81 Aamir Azhar...........................T43 Dani Canaleta........................S69 Floyd Cheung........................T27
Andrea Acosta.......................F32 Minju Bae..............................T99 Rosemary Candelario............T63 Calvin Cheung-Miaw..............F91
Joshua Acosta.......................F12 Hannah Bae..........................F34 Francesca Caparas...............T39 Alex Chew.............................F84
Ahmed Afzal..........................F96 Aimee Bahng.........................F52 Brianna Cariño.........................T1 Rebecca Chhay.....................T49
Tahereh Aghdasifar................T29 Crystal Baik...................T99, S57 Edwin Carlos.................T70, F61 Vichet Chhuon.......................T59
Karin Aguilar-San Juan...T11, S67 Falu Bakrania........................S40 Faye Caronan........................F28 Sandra So Hee Chi Kim.........F30
Maral Aguilera-Moradipour.......S7 Surabhi Balachander......T21, F36 Youssef Carter.......................F72 Mark Chiang..........................F91
Azzah Ahmed.....................T31.1 Arnab Banerji.........................F78 S. Moon Cassinelli.................T10 Chris Chien............................F35
Neel Ahuja.....................T90, F52 Joanmarie Bañez...........T24, T89 Yareli Castro Sevilla........F85, F88 Clara Chin........................F7, S49
Divya Aikat.............................T43 Jenny Banh...........................T91 Keno Catabay......................T103 Elizabeth Chin.......................S22
Hōkūlani K. Aikau..................S74 Sid Barathi.............................T73 John Paul (JP) Catungal...F27, S2 Gabriel "Jack" Chin................T82
Marina Aina...........................T40 Chandrica Barua..............F7, S55 Phillip Cha.............................S13 Kylie Ching............................S52
Daniel Akihiro Iwama..............T60 Stacey Anne Baterina Salinas.T17 Debadatta Chakraborty........T100 Leo Ching..............................F89
Joshua Alexander..................S31 Audrey Bauman.......................F6 Stephanie Chan.....................T91 Elaine Cho.............................T94
Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez...... Allen B. Baylosis................T3, S2 Sylvia Chan-Malik..................F72 Helen Cho.............................F82
.............................................T72 Joshua Bender......................T18 Diana Chandara.....................T59 Janet Eujin Cho.....................T29
Elaine Almeida.......................S62 Sihem Bensalah.....................T18 Anita Wen-Shin Chang...........F92 Jennifer Cho............................F3
Jo Alvarado...........................T18 Christopher Seiji Berardino.....T85 Edmond Y. Chang..................F67 Nancy Cho.....................T44, F82
Krupal Amin...........................F24 Cliff Bersamira.......................S77 Jason Oliver Chang..F13, F28, S1 Tony Cho...............................F56
Heidi Amin-Hong......T90, F8, F64 Tamara Bhalla................T33, F50 Jin Chang..............................F70 Stephen Cho Suh..................F14
Genji Amino...........................S50 Ananya Bhardwaj..................S76 Joyce C. Chang.....................S17 Carolyn Choi..........................F12
Sohyun An.............................F16 Anshika Bhasin......................S43 Richard (Rich) Chang.....S15, S61 Jin Choi.................................F62
Mieko Anders........................F36 Bidisha Biswas....................T100 Robert Chang........................T82 Michelle Choi Ausman.............F5
Zach Anderson..............T25, F54 Iris Blake................................T64 Mary Chapman......................T36 Sylvia Shin Huey Chong.F78, S25
Christine Añonuevo.................S2 L. Maria Bo............................T85 S. Charusheela......................S22 Athia Choudhury....................F86
Eryca Antonio..................T1, F68 Andrew Parayil Boge..............F86 Bernice Chau.........................F76 Samah Choudhury.................F42
Marjorie Antonio....................S31 Klara Loc-Ling Boger.............T48 Carolyn Chau...........................T1 Catherine Choy......................T13
Alexander Arriola.....................T1 Sony Coráñez Bolton.....T75, T86 Nikki Châu.............................T97 Chrysanthemum....................F51
Marie Joyce Artap..................T84 Melchor Bongato.............T1, F68 Cathy Linh Che..............F10, S18 Jonathan Chu.......................S32
Lauren Arzaga Daus..............F71 Rick Bonus............................T72 Cecily Chen.............................F7 Richard Chu..........................T93
Megan Asaka..........................F1 Min Kyung Boo................F3, S58 Ching-In Chen................F51, F79 Richie Chu.............................F66
Aeriel A. Ashlee......................F20 Tracy Buenavista...................S43 Edith Chen.....................F14, S13 Ga Young Chung...................F97
Neda Atanasoski...................F23 Karen Buenavista HannaT72, F33 Lena Chen.....................T105, S5 Kelly I. Chung........................S49
214 215
Abigail Clemens......................S3 Josen Masangkay Diaz..T23, S65 Valerie Francisco-Menchavez....... Janna Haider.........................T77
Jason Coe.............................S23 Bao Diep...............................T59 ..............................T72, F45, F61 Julie Ham..............................S62
Gerardo Colmenar...............T103 Thaomi Michelle Dinh.............T11 Heather Fryer.........................T28 Juliet Ham.............................S45
Anne Cong-Huyen.................T36 Minh Do.................................T97 May Fu..................................S29 Madeleine Han......................S52
Miyoko Conley.......................F67 Donna Doan Anderson..........F46 Candace Fujikane....................S8 Beth Harrington...................T104
Sony Coranez Bolton.............S47 Cindy Domingo......................F33 Diane C. Fujino..............F13, S30 Dylan Hartono.......................S69
Bernadine Cortina..................T18 Elissa "E" Domingo Badiqué...F88 Dorothy Fujita-Rony........T13, F80 Ernest Rafael Hartwell............T75
Eleanor Craig.........................F59 Anzi Dong.............................S35 Cherise Fung.................T52, T74 Nadia Hasan..........................T57
Elena Tajima Creef.................S71 Evan Dong.............................T40 Trinity Gabato........................T96 Toni Hays...............................T41
Johaina Crisostomo...............T75 Kira Donnell...........................F20 Donatella Galella....................F78 Huan He................................F23
Shannon Cristobal.................F81 Stephanie Drenka..................T94 Tin Gamboa............................T3 Christian Heimburger.............S63
Patrick Cruz.........................F101 Carlina Duan..........................F90 Shreena Niketa Gandhi..........F15 Huan Henk............................F90
Giselle Dejamco Cunanan......F53 Lan Duong.....................F10, S18 Cynthia Gao..........................F91 Nori Henk..............................F68
Edward Curammeng.............S43 Natalia Duong........................F52 Hongdeng Gao.......................S9 Alvin Henry.............................T15
Thomas Dai...........................T44 David Dutwin.........................F84 Jay Gao.................................T89 Chanhee Heo........................S17
Kavita Daiya...................F75, F80 Jeanelle Dyan Daus..........T1, F68 Jian Gao................................F31 Jade Higa..............................S27
Lashon Daley.........................T89 Haruki Eda.............................F11 Joshua Garcia...............S17, S72 Jennifer Ho....................T30, S40
Trinh Dang.............................T69 Sachi Edwards......................T83 Sabnam Ghosh.....................F42 Tammy Ho.............................F59
Arlene Daus-Magbual................... Jasmine Ehrhardt..................T98 Gia-Quan..............................T41 Yi Chien Jade Ho...................S53
..............................T1, T80, F101 Natalie El-Eid.........................F36 Sonia Giebel..........................T14 Kaitlin Hoelzer..........................F6
Roderick Daus-Magbual.............. Chris A. Eng..........................T71 Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt..F81 Michael Holloman................T104
......................................T1, F101 Ralph Escamillan.....................T3 Sonia C. Gomez....................S51 Laureen Hom.........................T78
Shilpa Davé...........................T43 Kathleen Escarcha.................T89 Joaquin (Jay) Gonzalez..........F73 Caroline Kyungah Hong.........S64
EJR David.............................T88 Kevin Escudero.....................S74 Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez..F32 Mai-Linh K. Hong...................T32
Amber Davies-Sloan..............F20 Augusto Espiritu....................F91 Theodore S. Gonzalves..F13, F50 Ryan Horio............................T65
Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis............. Allen Evangelista....................T10 William Gow....................T78, S1 Nina Horisaki-Christens.........T64
..............................T30, F50, S18 Christopher Fan.............F89, S57 Rusham Goyal.......................S36 Brookyln Hose.......................S69
Leanne Day...........................T23 Lucy Fang.............................F35 Aaron Gozum........................F56 Eunice How...........................T50
Julien De Jesus..............T15, F21 May Farrales....................F81, S2 Andrea Mariko Grant.............S70 Matthew Jungsuk Howard.....F67
Melany De La Cruz-Viersca....S20 Jessica Fay............................F37 Justine Guichard...................S42 Vicky Hsing............................F27
Manny De Leon.....................F54 Wendy Feng..........................T21 Rishi Guné..................T31.1, F18 Caroline Hsu..........................T81
Ariel Dela Cruz.....................T101 Juan Carlos Fermin................F36 Dennis Gupa...........................T3 Funie Hsu..............................T83
Reuben B. Deleon..................T72 Kathleen Fernando..................T6 Himanee Gupta.............F59, S41 Madeline Hsu.........................F63
David Della............................T50 Tara Fickle.....................S50, S65 Hyoseol Ha............................T28 V. Jo Hsu...............................F51
Meera Deo.............................T82 Kaitlin Findlay.........................S71 Kien Nghi Ha.........................S16 Brian Hu................................F92
Amrit Deol......................F75, F95 Zach Ramon Fitzpatrick.........S16 Kyung Hee Ha.......................F11 Sunny Hu..............................F34
Henry Der..............................F60 Alfred P. Flores.......................S54 Nina Ha...................................F5 Yilan Hu.................................T61
Jigna Desai............................F96 Audrey Fong..........................S28 Thao Ha................................T94 Vinh Hua................................T97
Maharaj "Raju" Desai.............T80 Kelly Fong......................T33, F13 Penelope Ha Vy Phan............T76 Betsy Huang....................F6, S40
Manan Desai..................T36, T70 Timothy Fong........................S20 Ryan Hackenbracht...............F40 Christina Huang.....................T43
Philip R. Deslippe...................T83 Valerie Fong...........................T91 Sam Hafetz.............................T6 Michelle N. Huang..........T22, T71
Hardeep Dhillon.............F75, S51 Veronica Anne Francisco........F93 Andrew Hahm.......................S46 Tiffany Huang........................T14
Pawan Dhingra..............T86, S74 Christina J. Hahn...................T94 Vivian L. Huang..............F77, S49
216 217
William Huang.......................F34 Naomi Joseph.......................S46 Eleana Kim............................T19 Lilika Ioki Kukiela...................S76

Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk....F84 Khyati Joshi...........................T83 Elizabeth Kim........................T55 Urvi Kumbhat........................F90
Emily Hue................................F8 Kill Joy...................................S30 Emily Kim................................F5 Mick Min Hung Kuo...............T31
Christina Hughes...................S67 Rachael Joy...........................S38 Erynn Kim..............................F74 Karen Kuo.............................T67
Ji-Yeon Huh...........................T36 grace shinhae Jun.........T46, S11 Esther Kim.............................F16 Rachel Kuo..................T87, T101
Eric Hung.....................T46, T103 Moon-Ho Jung................T77, F1 Eunsong Kim................S50, S65 Leah Kuragano...............S8, S34
A.E. Hunt..............................S30 Aimee Jurado........................T24 Grace S. Kim.................T42, T92 Linda Yun Ja Kwak................S17
Soohyung Hur..........................T4 Preeti Juturu..........................F37 Hahkyung Darline Kim...........T95 Yvonne Kwan................F22, S20
Que-Lam Huynh....................S61 Kyle Kajihiro...........................F98 Heejung (Julie) Kim................F66 Crystal Kwok.........................S23
James Huỳnh......................T101 Shalini Kakar..........................T51 Irene Kim.................................F7 Daphne Kwok........................F84
Julia Huỳnh............................F26 Kevin Kandamby....................F88 JaeRan Kim...........................F20 Donna Kwon.........................T20
Hye-Won Hwang...................T63 DJ Kuttin Kandi.....................T24 Jeff Kim.................................T37 Nayun Kwon..........................F57
Ren-Yo Hwang......................T98 Erica Kanesaka.....................T89 Junyoung Verónica Kim.F35, S33 Soo Ah Kwon..........................T4
Sine Hwang Jensen...............F79 Miliann Kang................T102, S74 L.S. Kim..............................F100 Yaejoon Kwon.......................T53
Sarah Hae-In Idzik.................T61 Simi Kang........................T66, F8 Liz Kim..................................F43 Joanna La Torre....................S77
Tracy Iftikar............................S43 Stephie Minjung Kang...........T79 Luke Kim.................................T6 Tracy Lai................................T50
Sam Ikehara....................S8, S60 Robert Karimi........................T26 Miho Kim...............................F11 Hale Lam.........................T66, F7
Douglas S. Ishii..............T35, T71 Urnisa Karmakar....................F42 Na-Rae Kim...........................T74 Viola Lasmana...............F92, S59
Mike Ishii...............................S12 Dinidu Karunanayake...............T6 Nadia Kim.....................T19, S74 Carolun Lau...........................F58
Hinako Ishikawa....................S62 Rohit Kataria.........................S31 Nadia Y. Kim........................T102 Chrissy Lau...................T33, S26
Najnin Islam...........................S55 Tavleen Kaur..................F85, F95 Nathan Kim...........................T45 Koji Lau-Ozawa.....................S14
Lynn Itagaki...........................T34 Anneeth Kaur Hundle.............F95 Se Bin Esther Kim..................T96 Emily P. Lawsin......................T58
Megu Itoh..............................F62 Leora Kava............................S54 Seonah Kim.............T4, T67, S38 SunAh Laybourn............T14, T53
Deepa Iyer.............................S12 Noah Kawaguchi...................F29 Sunmin Kim...........................F14 C.N. Le..................................F84
Nalini Iyer.................................T6 Naomi Kawamura................T103 Willyce Kim...........................S50 Danvy Le...............................F71
Jamelah Jacob......................T89 Salwa Kazi.............................T57 You Jin Kim...........................T75 Loan Le.................................S13
Beenash Jafri...........................T5 Rae Keʻala Kuruhara................F8 Summer Kim Lee...........F94, S49 Mads Le................................T16
Arianna Qianru James...........S56 Mika Kennedy................F69, S71 Kelli Kimura...........................F54 Mai-Nhung Le...............S13, S29
Michele Janette.....................T74 Hareem Khan........................F96 Laura Kina.............................T60 Michelle Lê............................F70
Pranav Jani............................T34 Kayan Khraisheh...................F66 Rebecca Jo Kinney................F46 Viet Lê...........................T26, S18
Amira Jarmakani....................F83 Mimi Khúc.............................T66 Jahnavi Kirtane..............T43, F34 Vincent Le.............................T65
Janrey Javier....................T1, F69 Chrisna Khuon.......................F26 Maryam Kishani.....................F72 Yến Lê Espiritu......................T19
Nalin Jayasena........................T6 Lori Kido Lopez.......................T7 Eri Kitada..............................S51 Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi................
Asha Jeffers...................T85, S62 Adhy Kim.......................F52, S60 Ian Yi Heng Koh.....................T67 .............................T86, F87, S33
Insil Jeon...............................T59 Angela Rain Kim....................S48 Brian Kohaya.........................T65 Long Le-Khac.......................T47
Soojin Jeong.........................F57 Anthony Kim..................T22, T74 Jane Komori..................F91, S14 Abigail Jinju Lee.....................T52
Russell Jeung........................F66 Anthony Yooshin Kim............S68 Troy Kondo..............................T1 Chali Lee.................................F4
Jessica Jiang.........................T77 Ava Kim........................S47, S49 Janet Kong-Chow.................S56 Chris Lee..............................S57
Alexander Jin........................S45 Chang-Hee Kim.....................T48 Elizabeth Kopacz...................T95 Christopher Joseph Lee........T98
Daniel B. Jin...........................T81 Christine Kim.........................S57 Emiko Kranz..........................S20 Da Som Lee........................F100
Denise Johnson.....................T94 Clare S. Kim..........................F23 Sailaja Krishnamurti.......T57, F15 Derek Lee..............................T35
Diana Johnson........................F1 Daniel Y. Kim.........................T55 Ryan Ku................................T49 Edward Hunter Lee...............S27
Wayne Jopanda......................T2 Diana Kim..............................F44 Carl Kubler.............................F31 Eun-joo Lee...........................T67
218 219
Grayson Lee.........................S52 Jaw Hwan Lim.......................F56 Brendan Ly............................T40 Leah Jing McIntosh........T30, F64
Haneul Lee............................T95 Rachel Haejin Lim..........F12, S38 Colleen Lye............................F91 Calvin McMillin......................S27
Hyun Lee...............................T67 Richard Lim...........................S34 Tiffany Lytle...........................T26 Sharan Kaur Mehta...............S48
Ilhyung Lee............................T82 May Lin..................F22, F71, S24 Catherine Ma.........................F30 Sean Metzger........................S37
James Kyung-Jin Lee....T22, T66 Chien-ting Lin................T23, S47 Guizhen Ma...........................F84 Fangfei Miao..........................T63
Jean Lee...............................F42 Jennifer Lin LeMesurier..........T61 Joy Ma..................................F75 Clarissa Mijares.......................T3
Jeehyun Jenny Lee................T87 Bianca Ling...........................F68 Nan Ma.................................S61 Evan Miksovsky.....................T40
Jesse Lee................................T9 Huping Ling...........................F63 Bianca Mabute-Louie............F16 Glen Mimura........................T104
Julia H. Lee...........................S40 Mich Ling................................S9 Rosario Macahilas...................T1 Susette Min...................T64, S10
Katherine H. Lee....................T91 Tony Wei Ling........................T22 Angelica Macalisang..............F93 Naveen Minai.................F35, S33
Mae Lee................................T39 Jenny Liou...............................F9 Michelle G. Magalong............T12 Sarah Lynn Miralles................F53
Mao Lee................................F17 Anqi Liu.................................S21 Dale Dagar Maglalang...........S77 Amrita Mishra........................S55
Marie Myung-Ok Lee.............T30 Audrey Liu.............................F34 Rei Magosaki.........................T27 Sangay K. Mishra................T100
Mea L. Lee..........................T103 Mel Liu..................................F25 Nashra Mahmood...............T31.1 Emily Mitamura......................S52
Michelle Lee..................S44, S15 Michelle S. Liu.......................S64 Kristi Mai...............................T96 Corrine Mitsuye Sugino..........F62
Rachel Lee............................T22 Qing Tingting Liu..................T102 Lena Mai...............................S31 Cassie M. Miura....................S64
Sang Eun Eunice Lee.............F86 Rebecca N. Liu.....................S55 Simmy Makhijani...................S54 Micah Mizukami.....................T60
Seulghee Lee........................S49 Rivers Liu..............................S24 Pranav Malhotra....................T87 Sabiha Mohyuddin.................T70
Shelley Lee............................F58 Rui Liu.....................................S7 Surbhi Malik..........................T28 Christine Mok........................T71
Sue-Im Lee....................T29, S58 Runchao Liu..........................S21 Samip Mallick........................T43 Joyce Mok.............................F66
Tessa C. Lee.........................S16 Yiwen Liu...............................T51 Jessica Man..........................T45 Jessica Montez.....................F66
Timothy Lee..........................S15 Yubing Liu.............................S43 Simeon Man..........................F12 Krystyn R. Moon............F78, S25
Wendy Allison Lee.................T71 Aline Lo...................T62, T74, S6 Martin Manalansan IV.............S47 Kelsey Moore........................F55
You Jae Lee..........................S16 Bao Lo..................................T47 Dim Mang.............................S32 Glenn Morey..........................F20
Jeremy Lee Wolin..................T45 Nacie Loh..............................T76 Gabbie Mangaser..................F38 David Mori.............................T81
Zoe Lee-Park........................T21 Virginia Loh-Hagan..................S1 Ajitpaul Mangat......................T28 Trish Morita-Mullaney.............F47
Kenneth Andrew Andres Leonardo Zihan Loo..............................F76 Bakirathi Mani................F77, S10 Miya Moriwaki........................F55
.............................................S38 Kathleen López.....................T93 Anita Mannur..................T71, F86 Marimas Hosan Mostiller........F53
Andrew Way Leong.......T27, S33 Christine Loui........................S39 Nabiha Mansoor.............T74, F18 Chong A. Moua.....................F17
Andrew Leong.......................T85 Andrea Louie.........................T33 Kiran Mansukhani..................F74 Kaozong N. Mouavangsou....F17
Alicia Leong...........................F66 Janet Louie............................F88 Sophia Mao.............................T8 Manjari Mukherjee...................S3
Karen Leong.........................S14 Sim Low................................T51 Annelle Maranan Garcia.........F61 Ali Myers.................................F6
Juliet Letteney.......................S45 Frederick Lu..........................S69 Alden Marte-Wood.........F16, F33 Kit Myers...............................T61
Toese Letuli...........................T25 Paolina Lu.............................S44 Hana Maruyama....................S14 Kyung Hee Na.......................T23
Maxwell Leung......................T81 Stephanie Lu.........................F40 Gina Masequesmay...............S29 Kevin Nadal...........................T88
Muriel Leung............................F9 Weishun Lu...........................F18 Valerie Matsumoto.................T13 Paul Nadal............................S65
Frances Leung......................F34 Mary Lui................................S51 Jon Matsuoka.........................T8 Edward L. Nadurata..............T72
Leslie Leuterio.......................F73 Diego Luis.............................S33 Olivia Matsuoka.....................S76 Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata
Pei-te Lien.............................F84 Sharon Luk....................T98, F72 Ali Maunu..............................S69 ...........................................T101
Nathan Lieng.........................S61 Allan Lumba..........................F33 Angela May...........................S34 Vijaya Nagarajan....................F15
Thanh Lieu............................F50 V. Lundquist..........................T47 Najwa Mayer..................F72, F83 Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito..........
Adriene Lim.........................T103 Shirley Lung..........................S17 Alexyss McClellan-Ufugusuku...... .......................................T60, F8
Eng-Beng Lim.......................F79 Crystal Luo............................F58 .............................................T60 Lisa Nakamura......................T54
220 221
Dana Y. Nakano....................T53 Mica Nimkarn........................T76 Heejoo Park..........................S76 Jyoti Puri...............................S22

Rika Nakato...........................F34 erin Khuê ninh................T66, T69 John Park....................T37, F100 Rumya Putcha......................S22
Sirsha Nandi..........................T21 Michael Nishimura.................S42 Josephine Park.............T55, S58 Ping Qiu................................S21
Benjamin Narvaez.................T93 Jeff Noh...............................F100 Lisa Sun-Hee Park...................F8 Aydin Quach..........................F76
Phil Tajitsu Nash....................T82 Minjung Noh..........................F35 MiRi Park..............................S11 Justin Quang Nguyên Phan...T64
Bilal Nasir.......................F72, F96 Saugher Nojhan.....................F71 Kim Park Nelson............F20, S23 Christopher Radcliff...............S18
Katherine Nasol.....................F45 Gail M. Nomura.....................S70 Jul Parke...............................F82 Saiyare Rafaei.......................S30
Hana Natsuhara....................S69 Farah Nousheen....................F69 Minu Parke..........................F100 Preethi Ramaprasad..............S11
Teresa Naval..........................F56 Don Nuam............................S32 Caleb Pascual.......................F68 Junaid Rana..........................F18
Patricia A. Neilson..................F28 Yuki Obayashi.......................S60 R. Varisa Patraporn................F22 Swati Rana..............................T5
alice kurima newberry............T16 Anthony C. Ocampo..............T53 Annie Patrick...........................F5 Ravindu Ranawaka...............S66
Lisa Ng...................................S9 Meredith Oda........................F58 ChristopherB.Patterson.T23, F67 Noopur Raval........................T54
Melanie Ng............................T77 Suzie Oh...............................T37 Binod Paudyal...............T74, F75 Chandan Reddy.......................T5
Samantha Ng..........................T1 Cindy Juyoung Ok.................T38 Anna Pegler-Gordon.................... Vanita Reddy..................T34, F16
Anh Ngo.................................S7 Desun Oka............................F11 .............................T79, F63, S10 Elysha Rei.............................S70
Alex Nguyen..........................S42 Wyleen Olaes........................T35 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud..............F10 Paisley Rekdal.......................T30
Angela-MinhTu Nguyen.........S61 Dana Olwan...........................F83 Mojca Penca.........................T47 Trisha Remetir........................F52
Anna Nguyen..........................T9 Christina Ong........................T56 Jewel Pereyra..........................F3 Bernard James Remollino......T17
Catherine H. Nguyen.............F87 Evangelica "Angeli" S. Ong......T1 Jason Magabo Perez...............F9 Alyssa Reyes...........................S2
Diana Khoi Nguyen........T38, F10 Josephine Faith Ong..............F52 Ryan Persadie.........................S3 Margaret Rhee...............T34, S68
Giang Nguyen-Dien...............F46 Bradley Onishi.......................T83 Prea Persaud.........................F15 Sharon Ria............................F99
Jessica Huyen Nguyen..........S31 Kent Ono...............................F55 Estelle Petrocelli....................F73 Kelly Rich..............................S68
Justin Quang Nguyên Phan...S56 Khin Hla Oo...........................S32 David Pham...........................T41 Takeo Rivera....................F67, S5
Kathy Nguyen........................T97 Troy Osaki.............................T84 Huy Pham.............................T58 Jeanette Roan.......................T35
Kelly Nguyen.........................F74 Scott Oshiro..........................F29 Julie Pham............................T59 Suin Roberts.........................S16
Linh T. Nguyen...............T11, T97 Kendall Ota.............................F4 Victoria Pham........................F70 Angela Robinson...................T32
Ly Thúy Nguyễn....................S67 Lei X. Ouyang........................T32 Gloria Pham..........................F76 Greg Robinson..............F63, S63
Mimi Thi Nguyen............T11, F32 Jocelyn Pacleb......................S20 Kong Pheng Pha.............F46, S6 Tara Rodman.........................F78
Robert Nguyen..............T48, T52 Jan Padios....................T84, S40 Melissa Phruksachart............S25 Noreen Naseem Rodriguez....F16
Saomai Nguyen.....................T40 Daniel Pai..............................F68 Thy Phu..........................S7, S52 Evelyn I. Rodriguez................F73
Sarah Nguyễn.......................T87 Jihyun Paik............................T76 Johansen C. Pico..................F21 Robyn Rodriguez...........F81, F97
Thanh P. Nguyen...................T92 Susie Pak..............................S58 Sydney Pike..........................T25 David Roh.......................F6, S60
Thi Nguyen............................F87 Sophia Pan..............................F4 Daniela Pila............................F12 Moska Rokay..........................S7
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.............F87 Vincent Pan...........................F60 Shenali Pilapitiya...................S66 Ponipate Rokolekutu.............S54
Trung Phan Quoc Nguyen............ Yung-Yi Diana Pan.................S43 Rupa Pillai.............................F15 John Rosa...............................T9
.....................................T32, T98 Jo Pandac.............................F68 Reuven Nathaniel Pinnata......S59 Noah Rosen..........................T20
Tu-Uyen Nguyen....................F66 Sameer Pandya.....................T19 Martin Joseph Ponce.............T34 David Rouff............................F31
Vian Nguyen..........................F26 James Pangilinan....................S2 Melissa Eriko Poulsen............F36 Elizabeth Hanna Rubio.T81, T102
Virginia Nguyen.......................S1 Jenny Par..............................S32 Elliott H. Powell..............T34, T86 Prahas Rudraraju...................F25
Y Thien Nguyen.....................F87 Teraya Paramehta.................S59 Amy Pozza............................S36 Vicki L. Ruiz...........................T13
Kourtney Nham.....................T16 Crystal Parikh........................T30 Rane Prak.............................F25 Karis Ryu..............................S72
Kai Nham.....................T54, T101 Carol K. Park.........................F14 Anselma Widha Prihandita.....S59 Miah Theresse Sabas............T92
Quynh Nhu Le.......................S37 Ellen Park..............................T37 Primrose.......................F90, S53 Sasha Sabherwal.........T100, F95
222 223
Laura Sachiko Fugikawa........T10 Nitasha Tamar Sharma.........T102 David Shuang Song...............T79 Mihiri Tillakaratne...................S66
Jocyl Sacramento..........T80, F71 Preeti Sharma................T32, F27 Min Hyoung Song..................T92 Grace En-Yi Ting...........T32, S26
Jyothsna Sainath...................T63 Sanchita Sharma...................S11 Rachel Song.........................S15 Heidi Tinsman.......................F85
Nalani Saito...........................T51 Yasheng She.........................F67 Koby Song-Nichols...............F70 Allyson Tintiangco Cubales..........
Evan Sakuma..........................S5 Jay Shelat.............................T10 Jen Soriano...........................T24 ............T24, T88, F13, F93, F101
Trish Salah.............................F51 Raymond Kun-Xian Shen.........T7 Paul Spickard........................T73 Antonio T.Tiongson, Jr...........T72
Joy Sales.......................T84, T99 Krysty Shen...........................S13 Luke Stanley............................F5 Phuc To.................................S28
Nathan Samayo.....................F59 Lili Shi....................................F30 Mavis Stone..........................T40 Sophie B. Tô.........................S64
Ray San Diego.................F4, F32 Ashanti Shih..........................T90 Anna Storti............................S42 Papu Togafau........................T25
Madison San Luis..........F22, S24 Elena Shih.............................T53 Hans Su................................F64 Casey Tokita.........................S35
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns......T3 Christina Reiko Shimizu.........S12 Sharon Suh.....................T8, S41 Jim Tokuhisa...........................F5
Mark Sanchez.......................F33 Jeannie Shinozuka................S70 Cella M. Sum.........................T54 Shannon Toribio....................T33
Cindy Sangalang...................S77 Julia Shizuyo Popham...........S71 Elizabeth Sun........................T44 stef torralba...................F21, S10
Nida Sanglimsuwan..............S62 Mejdulene B. Shomali............F83 James Sun............................S63 Von Torres.............................F53
Christopher Santiago...............F9 Chad Shomura..............F94, S30 Dheepa Sundaram..............T100 Ann Ngoc Tran......................S28
Wells Lucas Santo.................T54 Sue Shon..............................F77 Wendy Sung..................T54, F77 Ann Thuy-Ling Tran................F80
Aanchal Saraf..........................T5 kt shorb................................S67 Pamela Suri...........................F69 Havannah Tran......................F32
Demiliza Saramosing...........T101 Rosanne Sia..........................F85 Renee Susanto......................F59 Jacinda Tran..........................F52
Thomas Xavier Sarmiento............ Imraan Siddiqi.......................S12 Karen L. Suyemoto........T42, T92 Paul Tran...............................F10
.....................................T34, F46 Shan Siddiqui........................F68 Sokunthary Svay....................T16 Steven Tran...........................T65
Jeremiah Sataraka................S29 Kiana Star Signey.....................T1 Leland Tabares................F3, F82 Truong Tran.............................F9
Melody Satele........................T25 Annie Sing.............................F93 Mike Tagawa...........................F1 UyenThi Tran Myhre...............F32
Nidhi Satyagal.......................T73 Navdeep Singh......................F95 Nathan Tam...........................T45 Van Ngoc Tran Nguyen....F30, S5
Jey Saung.............................S37 Balbir K. Singh.......................F77 Lily Anne Tamai......................T33 Angel Trazo...........................F54
Emi Sawada..........................T46 Tejpaul Singh Bainiwal...........F95 Alexander Tang......................F76 Justine Trinh..........................S28
Julia Schiavone Camacho......T93 Randeep Singh Hothi............S25 Margie Tang-Oxley...................T9 Drew Trinidad........................T15
Vince Schleitwiler...................T27 Gurkirat Singh Sekhon...........F75 Francis Tanglao Aguas...........F25 Helen Trottmann....................S36
Michael Schulze-Oechtering Castañeda Maya Sinha...........................T73 Aaron Tann............................T25 Justin Tse..............................S72
.....................................F33, S35 Karen Siu.......................F30,S48 Stacie Tao.............................T69 Annabelle Tseng....................F94
Marian Sciachitano................S45 Lok Siu..........................F60, S16 Pam Tau Lee.........................F97 Elda Tsou..............................S58
Luan Scrivner..........................T1 Ivan V. Small........................T102 Jon Joey Telebrico.................F21 Scott Tsuchitani.....................F98
David K. Seitz........................F27 Jess X. Snow.................S18, S30 Keith Terauchi........................F29 Thuy Tu.................................T11
Sophea Seng...................T8, T51 Connie So.............................S69 Kei Terauchi...........................F93 Carlo Tuason.........................F43
Shebati Sengupta.................S76 Wen Imara So Eckelberg.......S69 Susan Thananopavarn.............F3 Wesley Ueunten.............F29, F98
Lalaine Sevillano....................T18 Nina Sobers..........................S46 Mai See Thao .........................S6 Karen Umemoto..............F97, S1
GJ Sevillano..........................F62 Valerie Soe............................F92 C. Lilian Thaoxaochay............F97 Nishant Upadhyay............T5, T57
Lainey Sevillano.....................S77 Amanda Solomon Amorao........... Kanjana Hubik Thepboriruk....T79 Reid Uratani..........................T21
Miya Shaffer..........................S11 .....................................T24, F61 Sitara Thobani.......................T57 Saranyan Uthayakumar.S46, S66
Nioshi Shah...........................T73 Miya Sommers......................F98 Pamela Thoma......................T52 Phitsamay S. Uy.....................F28
Sejal Shah.............................S40 Joohan Son...........................T70 Sonja Thomas.......................T57 Desiree Valadares..........T90, S33
Shalini Shankar................T4, S22 Crystal Song..........................T69 Mika Thornburg.....................T33 MT Vallarta.......................T2, T84
Lila Sharif...............................F83 David Song...........................T14 Demetrius Tien..............F22, S24 Jonathan van Harmelen.F63, S63
Anupam Sharma...................T43 Joey Song.............................T20 Jessica Tiju............................T31 Ma Vang..........................T62, S6
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Seng Vang.............................T91 Chassidy Wen.......................F40 Hentyle Yapp.........................S57

Thong Vang...................T59, F17 Mariko Whitenack..................T90 Shang Yasuda.......................T16
Nicholas Vann.......................T58 Alan Williams.........................S23 Grace Yasumura....................F50
Natasha Varner......................S14 Olivia G. Wing........................T69 Darren Yau............................S46
Tamara Venit-Shelton..............S9 Jenifer Wofford......................F73 Michael Yebisu........................T9
Gerie Ventura......................T103 Danielle Wong.......................S53 Nolan Yee..............................F14
Nic Vigilante..........................T20 Francis Wong........................F29 Julianne Marie "Jewel" Yee......T1
Peter Villafañe........................F21 J.M. Wong.............................T50 Anne Mai Yee Jansen.............F24
Carlo Antonio Villanueva........T46 Jane Wong............................F90 Grace Yeh.............................S29
George Villanueva..........F16, F62 Lily Wong...............T23, F45, F89 Joanna Yeh.............................F4
LilyAnn Villaraza.....................T17 Shawn Wong........................S50 Alison Yeh Cheung.........T20, F24
A. Chyei Vinluan....................S15 Yutian Wong..........................F32 Semi Yeom............................T70
Michael Joseph Viola.......T2, F61 Daniel Woo............................T46 Kathy Yep.............................S41
Saba Vlach............................F70 David Woo..............................T8 Linfei Yi..................................F39
Quynh H. Vo..........................T23 Rosa Woolsey........................T58 Hyewon Yi.............................S34
Linda Trinh Vo........................T53 Laura A. Wright......................F24 Jacqueline (Jaki) Yi................S15
Tiffanie Vo.............................S44 Ellen Wu................................T19 Magnolia Yang Sao Yia..........S11
Thuy Vo Dang................F13, S28 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu........T13, T78 Grace Shiu-Ping Ying..............T7
Jason Vu...............................S34 Derek Wu..............................S72 Seon-Myung Yoo...................T29
Minh Vu.................................F10 Audrey Wu Clark....................T49 Ka-eul Yoo.....................T95, F57
Minh Huynh Vu......................S52 Connie Wun..........................F45 Emily Yoon............................T21
Roy Vũ..........................T94, S42 Xavier Xin..............................T56 Yasmin Yoon..........................F94
Pa N. Vue..............................F17 Choua P. Xiong......................F17 Shinya Yoshida......................F31
Phuong T. Vuong...................F43 Oliver Yimeng Xu...................T69 Sunhay You...........................S26
Jade Wahlgren......................T58 Cathy Xu...............................S75 Anida Youe Ali........................T26
Naoko Wake..........................F40 Wenxuan Xue..........................S3 Maile Aihua Young.................F35
Christopher Waldo.................F74 Nicole Yakashiro....................T77 Timothy Yu............................T55
Julia Walton...........................F64 Harshita Yalamary..................T57 Katarina Yuan........................T41
Shu Wan...............................F35 Ida Yalzadeh..................T99, F79 Zihao Yuan..............................F4
Brenda Wang........................F55 Christie Yamasaki..................T13 Ji-Yeon Yuh...........................T99
Klavier Jie-Ying Wang......T7, T45 Wendsor Yamashita...............T32 Anne Yung Van......................T31
Mai Wang......................T44, F64 Alice Yang.............................S63 Mohammad Farooq Zahid.......F5
Ray Wang..............................F34 Hongyan Yang.......................F85 Verma Zapanta........................T1
She-wen Wang.....................S15 Jerry Yang...............................F5 James Zarsadiaz...................F58
Tandee Wang........................F35 Joyce P. Yang........................S15 Jiajia Zhang...........................F31
Tracey Wang.........................T52 May Yang..............................T62 Maria Zhang..........................F66
Vincent Wang..........................F5 Nayoung Yang.......................T29 Crystal Zhao..........................S24
Xiaowei R. Wang...................T54 Tintin Yang............................S53 Allan Zheng....................T46, F25
Joyce Pualani Warren............S54 Yema Yang....................S32, S73 Wendy Weile Zhou...................T4
Carson Watlington.................T35 Susan Yang Hsun Hou.............T4 Ellen Zhou.............................S72
Kent Weber...........................T93 Magnolia Yang Sao Yia..........T62 Hao Zou................................F60
Samuel Caleb Wee.........F18, F90 Yanyi.............................T56, F79
Joseph Wei...........................T56 Sophie Yap............................S42
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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE 2020s:

DISCIPLINARY, ETHNIC, DIASPORIC IDENTITIES

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

PROGRAM DESIGNED BY:

AAAS BOARD MEMBERS 2024 ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES

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WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT

Recurring members often refer to AAAS as a family. The conferences let us

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Nuclear Family by Joseph Han

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A literal tour-de-force, Moon-Ho Jung’s Menace to

Jeannie Shinozuka's Biotic Borders: Transpacific

MEDIA, PERFORMANCE, AND VISUAL STUDIES

Provocatively self-critical of Asian American

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vv We are recognizing The Opportunity Trap with an

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Massage Parlor Outreach Project is a grassroots formation of Asian/

Formed in 2018, MPOP’s founders recognized that many massage par-

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BEST GRADUATE PAPER AURA WINNERS

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Linda Luu is a PhD candidate in American Studies at

tions and Divergences: Contemporary Asian American Communities

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Mentors continue on the next page.

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Yến Lê Espiritu is Distinguished Professor of Ethnic

Panelists continue on the next page.

J.M. Wong (they/them) is a queer child of the

Eunice How (she/her) is the president of the Seattle

Friday, April 26th Diana Johnson is Associate Professor of History and

Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History and the Harry

Megan Asaka is Associate Professor of History at

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Friday, April 26th Friday, April 26th

F41 President Session: F83 Executive Board Plenary:

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MENTORSHIP PANELS Pawan Dhingra, Associate Provost and Associate

Preparing for Tenure & Promotion