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Cathy Park Hong

English, UC Berkeley

Jun Hu

Art History, UC Berkeley

Andrew F. Jones

East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley

Kourtney Christen Kawano

Education, UC Berkeley

Aloha kākou! Kourtney Kawano(she/her) is a wahine ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian woman) from the village community of Nānākuli on the island of Oʻahu. She is Acting Assistant Professor at Berkeley School of Education.

A critical race resistance scholar and a graduate of Native Hawaiian culture-based schooling, Dr. Kawano embraces the proverb “ʻAʻohe pau ka ʻike i ka hālau hoʻokahi (all knowledge is not taught in the same school)” by weaving a variety of worldviews, conceptual framings, and qualitative...

Brian TaeHyuk Keum

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Brian TaeHyuk Keum, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor (Acting) in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, focusing on health and mental health disparities in Asian American communities through a culturally-informed, intersectional lens. He directs the Digital Equity & Anti-Oppression Lab. His work examines (a) the mental health and behavioral impacts of intersectional anti-Asian racism (e.g., gendered racism) and prevention/intervention efforts, (b) gendered racial socialization and culturally-informed risk and protective factors, including promotion of empowerment and flourishing...

Roshanak Kheshti

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Roshanak Kheshti is Chair of the Center for the Study of Sexual Culture and Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. Her research explores the intersection of gender, race and sexuality with the senses and perception. She is the author of We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Methodology (Duke, forthcoming), Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She has a Ph...

Andrew Kim

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Abigail De Kosnik

Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley

Long Le-Khac

Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

My research and teaching focus on relational race studies and the literatures of Asian Americans and Latinxs. I follow an expansive idea of the Asian and Latinx United States as a specific nexus in global, multi-racial struggles with racial capitalism, empire, warfare, and extraction. In tandem, I pursue an expansive idea of imaginative culture as a powerful mode for grasping a multi-racial world and envisioning solidarities to transform it.

My first book, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America (Stanford 2020), follows a form of transfictional storytelling across the...

Daniel Lee

Political Science, UC Berkeley
Political Science