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Asian American Studies
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Interests: Labor, Transnational corporations, Student Success, Diversity in Higher Education, Asian/Asian Americans
Email: jenbanh@csufresno.edu
Books and Edited Books
ASAM Students Publication
2024 Banh, J. “COVID-19 Racism and American Chinese Restaurants 2019–2022 Exploring American Chinese Restaurants as Symbolic “Canaries in the Coalmine” Indicating Anti-Asian Hate: Journal of Overseas Chinese (Volume 20, Issue 2, year 2024)
2023 Banh, J. “Barriers and Bridges to Cambodian and Sino-Cambodian American Higher Education Success: Voices from the Highly Successful.” AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice & Community, aapi nexus Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall 2023)
2021 Banh, J.; Radovic-Fanta, J. University and Professor Practices to Support DACA and Undocumented Students: DACA Student Experiences, Teacher Knowledge, and University Actions. Soc. Sci. 2021, 10, 346.
2020 Banh, J. #MakeMulanRight: Retracing the Genealogy of Mulan from Ancient Chinese Tale to Disney Classic” in Edited Volume: Recasting the Disney Princess: The Coming of Age of the Empowered Children’s Heroine in the Wake of Social Movements.
2020 Banh, J. Moana: Daughter of the Chief and Polynesian (in)Visibility in Edited Volume: Recasting the Disney Princess: The Coming of Age of the Empowered Children’s Heroine in the Wake of Social Movements.
2019 Banh, J. “I Have an Accent in Every Language I Speak!”: Shadow History of One Chinese Family’s Multigenerational Transnational Migrations." Genealogy 3, no. 3: 36.
2019 Banh, J. “Workers’ View on Indigenization of Theme Park: A Case Study in Hong Kong”. International Journal of Business Anthropology 9 (1).
2019 Banh, J. Chinese Restaurant Kids Speak About Labor, Lifeways and Legacies in American Chinese Restaurant: Society, Culture and Consumption.
2019 Banh, J. Chinese American Chef Ming Tsai: Life of East and West Hybridity in American Chinese Restaurant: Society, Culture and Consumption
2019 Banh, J. Culinary Ambassador Chef Martin Yan Speaks: Life, “Authenticity” and the Future of Chinese Restaurants in American Chinese Restaurant: Society, Culture and Consumption
Ed.D., Educational Leadership, CSU FresnoM.A. Public Policy, Duke UniversityB.A. Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Gena Gong has a wealth of nonprofit experience, holding staff leadership roles at A New Way of Life Reentry Project, Community Partners, Asian Pacific Community Fund, and Leadership Education for Asian Pacific (LEAP).
Email: ggong@csufresno.edu
PublicationsDissertation: "Asian Americans at a Western University: An Institutional Analysis." Order No. 28026848, California State University, Fresno, 2020.
Research Brief: "The Academic Challenges of Southeast Asians at Fresno State." California Commission on APIA Affairs.
M.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
Interests: Racial and ethnic history, immigration, Asian American Studies
Email: svang@csufresno.edu | Phone: 559-473-3884
Franklin Ng is a professor emeritus of anthropology and Asian American Studies. He is the editor of the Asian American Encyclopedia (1995), author of Taiwanese Americans (1998), and the coauthor of Asian American Issues (2004). He is also the editor of the Routledge series, Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics. From 2004 to 2006, he served as president of the Association of Asian American Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Amerasia Journal, The Journal of American Ethnic History, and Chinese America: History and Perspectives, and was the former editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.
Ph.D. Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: International Migration, Race and Ethnicity, Political Sociology, Asian American Studies
Phone: 559-278-5167 | Office: Peters Building 255
Email: yangxiong@csufresno.edu
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Humanities, University of California, Merced
Phone: 559-278-2878 | Office: Peters Business Bldg. 253
Email: amritdeol@mail.fresnostate.edu
Publications:
Deol, Amrit. “Political Activism in the 20th Century,” The Sikh World, (under contract).
Deol, Amrit, “The Role of Art in the Farmers’ Protest” Sikh Formations, Special Issue: Farmers’ Protest (forthcoming)
Deol, Amrit, “The Makings of a Mutiny: Exploring Diasporicity in Ghadar Party Poetry in North America,” Sikh Formations (forthcoming)
Deol, Amrit, “‘Workers and Peasants Unite’: The Formation of Kirti and the Kirti-Kisan Party and the Lasting Legacy of the Ghadar Movement, 1918-1928,” Journal of Punjab Studies, 26.1 (Spring 2019), 249-267.
Phone: 559-278-3002 | Office: Peters Business Bldg. 385
Email: izzy.lo@mail.fresnostate.edu
BA Communications, Fresno StateM.A. Communication, Fresno State
Email: amandaec@mail.fresnostate.edu