ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Director

n-sharma@northwestern.edu

Nitasha Sharma's research interests include Black Pacific, Comparative Race Studies, Hawai‘i, Asian and Black Relations, and Afro-Asian Studies. She is the author of Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific, and Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness.

Raymond San Diego

Director of Undergraduate Studies

ray.sandiego@northwestern.edu

Raymond San Diego's research and teaching interests broadly focus on transnational queer and feminist Asian/American performance practice, biopolitics and disability studies, and the spatial politics of erotic visual cultures. 

Carlos Ballinas

Senior Program Administrator

carlos.ballinas@northwestern.edu

Jasmine Zou

Program Assistant

jasmine.zou@northwestern.edu

Zoe Chao

Work-Study Student

zoechao2027@u.northwestern.edu

Wendy Sar

Work-Study Student

wendysar2027@u.northwestern.edu