Faculty: Asian American Studies Program

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Joshua Chambers-Letson

Professor of Asian American Studies and the Department of Performance Studies

Joshua Chambers-Letson researches and teaches courses in performance theory and contemporary art criticism, Asian American cultural production, legal and political theory, and queer of color critique. JCL is the author of After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life and A Race So Different: Law and Performance in Asian America, and is the co-editor of The Sense of Brown and Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital.

Helen Cho

Visiting Assistant Professor

hcho@northwestern.edu

Helen Cho’s research and teaching examines the role of mass media in producing and disseminating narratives of socio-political difference, and how narratives of difference shape the way people navigate their ascribed and avowed racial and ethnic identities in U.S. and international contexts.

Tara Fickle

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies

tfickle@northwestern.edu

Tara Fickle's research interests include Asian/American Gaming, Comics, Literature, and Digital Culture. She is the author of The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities.

Michelle N. Huang

Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and the Department of English

michelle.n.huang@northwestern.edu

Michelle N. Huang's research interests include Asian American literature, feminist science and technology studies, and posthumanism. Her work has appeared in Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia, and Twentieth-Century Literature, among other venues.

Jonathan Magat

Visiting Assistant Professor

jonathan.magat@northwestern.edu

Jonathan Magat's research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of Filipino/a/x and Asian/American cultural studies; queer and feminist theory; performance and visual culture; and critical care, illness, and disability studies.

Raymond San Diego

Assistant Professor of Instruction in Asian American 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.

Shalini Shankar

Professor of Asian American Studies and the Department of Anthropology

sshankar@northwestern.edu
Ph.D., New York University, 2003

Shalini Shankar is a sociocultural and linguistic anthropologist. She is the author of Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal about the New American Childhood, Advertising Diversity: Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Advertising, and Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class, and Success in Silicon Valley.

Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Professor of Asian American Studies and the Department of Black Studies

n-sharma@northwestern.edu
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004

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.

Ji-Yeon Yuh

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and the Department of History

j-yuh@northwestern.edu
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999

Ji-Yeon Yuh's research interests include Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. She is the author of Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America. Her current projects include the Asian Diasporas Digital Archive.