The program's undergraduate concentration affords students an opportunity to develop a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Asians in the hemispheric Americas. The course of study stresses developments within the United States, but also underscores the transnational and comparative contexts of Asian America and the field's connections with African American, American Indian, Latino, and Women's Studies.

Viranjini Munasinghe is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies. She received her B.A. in Social Anthropology from Sussex University and her M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She received her doctorate in Cultural Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 1994. Her book, Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad (Cornell University Press, 2001) was awarded the Social Science Book Prize by the Association for Asian American Studies. Her scholarly interests include nationalism, ethnicity, race, cultural and racial miscegenation, the comparative study of Asians in the Americas and the South Asian diaspora.

Derek Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies. He received his doctorate in History from Duke University in 2002. He has contributed chapters to two recent multi-disciplinary collections on religion: "'Marked in Body, Mind, and Spirit': Home Missionaries and the Remaking of Race and Nation," in Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2004), and "'Brought Together Upon Our Own Continent': Race, Religion, and Evangelical Nationalism in American Baptist Home Missions, 1865-1900," in Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America (AltaMira Press, 2005). His scholarly interests include Asian American and African American history, ethnicity and race (U.S. and comparative), American social history, American religious history, and immigration history.

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Asian American Studies. She received her B.A. in English and African American Literature from Bates College, and her M.A. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) in American Studies from New York University. She contributed a chapter, "Good Politics, Great Porn: Untangling Race, Sex, and Technology in Asian American Cultural Productions," to Asian America.Net (Routledge, 2003). She is co-editor (with Mimi Thi Nguyen) of Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America, forthcoming from Duke University Press. Her scholarly interests include Asian American popular culture, U.S. immigration and urbanization, critical race theory, cultural citizenship and cultural policy, social stratification (race, class, gender), new media and digital culture.

Sunn Shelley Wong is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Simon Fraser University, and her doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She has published articles on twentieth-century American poetry, as well as Asian American and African American prose fiction. Her scholarly interests include twentieth-century American literature (with an emphasis on Asian American and African American literature) and twentieth-century Canadian literature. She served as Acting Director of the Program from 1994-95 and as the Program's Director from 1999-2006.

Clement Lai is Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning and Asian American Studies. He received his doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.