Core Faculty
Sungdai Cho
Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Graduate Director
Center for Korean Studies; Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Sonja M. Kim
Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair
Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Ji-Song (Robert) Ku
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Kyung-Ah Kim
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Young-il Kim
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Suzy Lee
Assistant Professor and Director, MS in Human Rights
CCPA Human Development
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Eunjin Park
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
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Affilliated Faculty
Jeffner M. Allen
Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Africana Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Cultural Imaginaries and Representation
- Trans-Genre Writing
- Feminist and Lesbian Studies
- Postcolonial Studies
- Diasporic Literatures
- Water and Environmental Studies
- Transdisciplinary Studies
- Multi-Platform Works
- 20th and 21st Century European Philosophy
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Elisa Camiscioli
Associate Professor
History
Research Interests
- Modern France
- Immigration
- Gender History
- Sexual Labor
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John Cheng
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
- popular culture; media; and technology
- the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
- historiography and critical theory
Teaching Interests
- Asian American history
- race and popular culture
- comparative transnational racial formation
- historical methods and documentary history
- digital culture and literacy
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Hwan-Sik Choi
Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
Economics
Research Interests
- Econometrics
- Financial Economics
- Health Economics
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David L. Cingranelli
Professor; Co-Director, Human Rights Institute; Co-Director
Political Science; Human Rights Institute
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Fa-ti Fan
Professor
History
Research Interests
- East Asia
- History of science
- Environmental history
- Nation and empire
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Suk-Young (John) Kang
Associate Professor
CCPA Social Work
Research Interests
- Depression and health status among Asian immigrant elders
- Family caregiving
- Social justice for immigrants and refugees
- Depression among Asian Americans
- Technology and Aging
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Hoe Kyeung Kim
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Teacher education and assessment
- L2 writing
- Bilingual and Multilingualism
- Korean L2 learning
- Educational technology
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Yea Hee Ko
Assistant Professor of Strategy
School of Management
Research Interests
- Employee mobility
- Strategic human resource management
- Knowledge work
- Remote work
Teaching Interests
- Strategic human resource management
- Negotiation
- Compensation
- Strategy
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Hyejung Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership
Research Interests
- Intersectionality of multi-layered vulnerabilities including dis/abilities
- Educational equity
- Students with autism and other neurodevelopmental dis/abilities
- Postsecondary transition from high school to adulthood
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Sung-Joo Lim
Assistant Professor
Psychology
Research Interests
- Auditory cognitive neuroscience
- Human speech perception and communication
- Auditory attention, working memory, and category learning
- Neural dynamics and functional networks through fMRI and EEG
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Jeffrey K. Lum
Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- Molecular anthropology
- Forensic genetics
- Malaria
- epidemiology; Melanesia
- Melanesia
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Chang Hee Park
Associate Professor
School of Management
Research Interests
- Customer Analytics
- Digital Marketing
- Probability Models
Teaching Interests
- Data Driven Marketing
- Marketing Research
- Marketing Models
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Thomas M. Wilson
Professor
Anthropology
Research Interests
- National identity and nationalism; international borders and frontiers; ethnicity and ethnic conflict; political ritual and symbolism; commercial farming; agrarian economic strategies and politics; public policy and interest group formation; local government and political parties; cinema and popular culture; European integration; the borderlands of the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hungary, Canada, and the United States.
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Yi Wang
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
History; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Late Imperial China
- borderlands
- migration
- nationalism
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Dalhee Yoon
Assistant Professor
CCPA Social Work
Research Interests
- Child maltreatment research
- Peer relationships
- Adolescent risk behaviors
- Adolescent development
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