Aviva Chomsky is an American professor,historian,author,and activist. She is a professor of history and the Coordinator of Latin American,Latino and Caribbean Studies at Salem State University in Massachusetts. She previously taught at Bates College in Maine and was a research associate at Harvard University,where she specialized in Caribbean and Latin American history.
The Journal of Asian Studies is the flagship journal of the Association for Asian Studies,publishing peer-reviewed academic scholarship in the field of Asian studies. With an acceptance rate of approximately 6%,it upholds rigorous standards in the evaluation and publication of scholarly research. Each issue of the Journal of Asian Studies circulates over 8,200 copies,reaching a readership across the academic community and beyond.
Epifanio San Juan Jr.,also known as E. San Juan Jr.,is a known Filipino American literary academic,Tagalog writer,Filipino poet,civic intellectual,activist,writer,essayist,video/film maker,editor,and poet whose works related to the Filipino Diaspora in English and Filipino writings have been translated into German,Russian,French,Italian,and Chinese. As an author of books on race and cultural studies,he was a "major influence on the academic world". He was the director of the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Storrs,Connecticut in the United States. In 1999,San Juan received the Centennial Award for Achievement in Literature from the Cultural Center of the Philippines because of his contributions to Filipino and Filipino American Studies.
Arif Dirlik was a Turkish-American historian who published on historiography and political ideology in modern China,as well as issues in modernity,globalization,and postcolonial criticism. Dirlik received a BSc in Electrical Engineering at Robert College,Istanbul in 1964 and a PhD in History at the University of Rochester in 1973.
Peggy Levitt is the Mildred Lane Kemper Chair of Sociology at Wellesley College and a co-founder of the Global (De)Centre. Her latest book,Transnational Social Protection:Social Welfare Across National Borders was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. Her current book project,Move Over,Mona Lisa. Move Over,Jane Eyre:Making the World’s Universities,Museums,and Libraries More Welcoming to Everyone will be published by Stanford University Press. Peggy writes regularly about globalization,arts and culture,immigration,and religion.
Celine Parreñas Shimizu is a filmmaker and film scholar. She is well known for her work on race,sexuality and representations. She is currently Dean of the Arts Division at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Frances Negrón-Muntaner is a Puerto Rican filmmaker,writer,and scholar. Her work is focused on a comparative exploration of coloniality,primarily in Puerto Rico and the United States,with special attention given to the intersections between race,ethnicity,gender,sexuality and politics. She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City. She has also contributed to the Huffington Post,El Diario/La Prensa,and 80 Grados,and since 2008 has served as a Global Expert for the United Nations Rapid Response Media Mechanism. She is one of the best-known Puerto Rican lesbian artists currently living in the United States.
Lourdes Gutiérrez Nájera is an American cultural anthropologist. She is a tenured Associate Professor at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies teaching in the American Cultural Studies curriculum. Her prior experience includes her work as assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at both Dartmouth College and Drake University. She is a member of the Latin American Studies Association,American Anthropological Association,and Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Her research is published in journals and books such as Beyond El Barrio:Everyday Life in Latina/o America. Other publications include reviews of scholarly work. Her academic accomplishments and research pertain to the field of Latinx national migration,indigenous communities in the United States and Mexico,and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands.
Donald E. Pease is the Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities,chair of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program,professor of English and comparative literature at Dartmouth College. He is an Americanist,literary and cultural critic,and academic. He has been a member of the boundary 2 editorial collective since 1977 or 1978. He was the founding editor of the New Americanist Series at Duke University Press and editor of the Re-Encountering Colonialism Series and Re-Mapping the Transnational Turn:A Dartmouth Series in American Studies for the University Press of New England (UPNE). Pease directs the annual Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth.
Ritu Birla is an historian of modern South Asia. She is an associate Professor of History and is formerly the Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute and former Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs &Public Policy at the University of Toronto.
Ann Laura Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research in New York City. She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies,historical anthropology,feminist theory,and affect. She is particularly known for her writings on race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
Ramón Saldívar is an American author,teacher and researcher of cultural studies and Chicano literature. He is currently a professor at Stanford University,and received the National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama in 2012.
Lisa L. Moore is a Canadian-American academic and poet. She earned a B.A. in English with honors at Queen's University in 1986,and then completed her doctorate at Cornell University in 1991. Principal themes in Moore’s work include the centrality of love between women to literary genres such as the novel,the landscape arts,and the sonnet;the transatlantic and multi-racial history of feminist art and thinking;and the importance of poetry to second-wave feminist,womanist,and lesbian cultures and politics.
Lisa E. Bloom is an American cultural critic,educator and feminist art historian specializing in polar studies,contemporary art,environmental art,history of photography,visual culture and film studies and is known for her books and essay contributions to these areas.
Gloria Goodwin Raheja is American anthropologist who specializes in ethnographic history. She is the author of several historical works where she explores the concepts of caste and gender in India,colonialism,politics of representation,blues music,capitalism in the Appalachia and other diverse topics. Raheja argues that caste stratification in India was influenced by British colonialism. Monographs on ethnographic history and India have been considered "acclaimed" by the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Filipino American LGBT Studies is a field of studies that focus on the issues met by people at the intersection of Filipino American and lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender identities.
Tejaswini Niranjana is an Indian professor,cultural theorist,translator and author. She is best known for her contribution to the fields of culture studies,gender studies,translation,and ethnomusicology. She is the daughter of Kannada playwright and novelist Niranjana and writer Anupama Niranjana. Her partner is Indian author and cultural theorist,Ashish Rajadhyaksha.
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an American author,radio producer and professor. She is one of six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). A Kanaka Maoli woman,Kauanui was raised in California. She was awarded a Fulbright (1994-1995) at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where she was affiliated with the Māori Studies department. Her research areas focus on indigeneity and race,settler colonialism,decolonization,anarchism,and gender and sexuality.
Khachig Tölölyan is an Armenian-American scholar of diaspora studies.
Lorgia García Peña is an ethnic studies scholar,activist,and professor at the Effron Center for the Study of America and the department of African American studies at Princeton University. She formerly served as Mellon professor of studies in race,colonialism,and diaspora at Tufts University. She became a subject of national attention after being denied tenure at Harvard University. She is the author of The Borders of Dominicanidad:Race,Nation and Archives of Contradiction and Translating Blackness:Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective.
