Affiliated faculty teach one AASP course per year or have an equivalent academic engagement with AASP students (ex: thesis advising).
Faculty interested in affiliating with Asian American Studies should send a short statement that describes their intellectual and pedagogical aims, any plans for engaging with AASP students through programming, and some classes they are interested in teaching (please attach any existing syllabi) to asianamerican@northwestern.edu. Questions can be directed there as well.
Associate Professor of Theatre
elizabeth.son@northwestern.edu
Elizabeth Son’s research explores how theatre, multidisciplinary art, and other forms of embodied practice such as testimony and political actions illuminate the experiences of Korean, Korean diasporic, and Asian American women, thereby providing a critical space for grappling with historical legacies, cultivating community, and envisioning new futures.
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Jeong Eun Annabel We’s research interests include Korean and diasporic literature and culture, and decolonial thought. Her book in progress engages questions of decolonization in Korea through a transpacific framework.
Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Center for Legal Studies
Jesse Yeh is a political sociologist of race and immigration, gender and sexuality, crime and law, and politics and social movement. Yeh’s research focuses on how rightwing politics constructs and engages with social differences. Yeh’s current work examines how liberals and conservatives make sense of undocumented migration and racialized police violence.
