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Jenny Banh Profile 2020

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Interests: Labor, Transnational corporations, Student Success, Diversity in Higher Education, Asian/Asian Americans

Email: jenbanh@csufresno.edu 

Publications
Banh, Jenny and Melissa King. (2017). Anthropology of Los Angeles: Places and Agency in an Urban Setting. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Banh, Jenny and Haiming Liu. (2020). American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Banh, Jenny. “I Have an Accent in Every Language I Speak!”: Shadow History of One Chinese Family’s Multigenerational Transnational Migrations. Genealogy 2019, 3, 36." Genealogy (Basel) 4, no. 96 (2020): 96.

Banh, J. Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland: The Attempted Indigenization of Space, Labor and Consumption (Rutgers University Press 2025)

Gena Gong Profile

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, CSU Fresno
M.A. Public Policy, Duke University
B.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 

Publications
Dissertation: "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.

Seng Vang Profile 2021

M.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Interests: Racial and ethnic history, immigration, Asian American Studies

Email: svang@csufresno.eduPhone: 559-473-3884

Franklin Ng

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 JournalThe Journal of American Ethnic History, and Chinese America: History and Perspectives, and was the former editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.

 

 

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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

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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.

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Phone: 559-278-3002 | Office: Peters Business Bldg. 385

Email: izzy.lo@mail.fresnostate.edu 

Amanda Cockerham

BA Communications, Fresno State
M.A. Communication, Fresno State

Email: amandaec@mail.fresnostate.edu