Contact information:
Vivian Shaw, vivianshaw@utexas.edu
Simeon Man, siman@ucsd.edu
A. Naomi Paik, anpaik@illinois.edu

December 3, 2016

Collective Statement by Asian American Studies Scholars regarding Japanese American "Internment" and a Proposed Registry of Immigrants from Muslim-majority Countries

As scholars of Asian American studies, we feel we are uniquely positioned to respond to recent statements made by the president-elect and his spokespeople using the history of what is known as Japanese American internment to justify a proposed registry for immigrants entering the United States from Muslim-majority nations.

Throughout his campaign, the president-elect made multiple statements suggesting his support of the race-based mass imprisonment of Japanese American citizens and residents from the West Coast. More recently, his spokesperson, Carl Higsbie argued that Japanese American "internment" provides a “precedent” for a Muslim registry. A few days later, he continued to justify his argument, stating, “there are some people that need to be prevented from coming into this country.”

Such statements willfully disregard decades of knowledge about so-called "internment," ranging from the vast body of historical scholarship and educational materials produced on the subject to the achievements of the redress movement as consecrated in the 1988 Civil Liberties Act, passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed by President Ronald Reagan. This legislation, which formally apologized to imprisoned Japanese Americans, unequivocally states: “The internment of the individuals of Japanese ancestry was caused by racial prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership.” The legislation implicitly acknowledges that the government, through its policy of mass imprisonment, facilitated and sanctioned anti-Asian discrimination and violence throughout the country. Alarmingly, calls for a Muslim registry now both draw upon and indirectly condone the rise of Islamophobia, xenophobia, and racism in recent months.

That the president-elect promises to “make America great” by institutionalizing thinly veiled racist policies and practices assaults our principles and values. Alongside Black Lives Matter, DREAMers, #NoDAPL, and other social justice movements, we cannot stand for policies or rhetoric that threaten any of our communities. We understand the legacy of so-called internment as a guiding light of what not to do for our present and future. We fear the long term implications of any list based on race or religion. The proposed policy of a Muslim registry lays a dangerous ground for the violation of civil liberties that may or may not include mass imprisonment. We reject using Japanese American mass imprisonment to justify the targeting of Muslim people.

We sign this statement as individual scholars of Asian American studies or as scholars from other disciplines who stand in support with our colleagues in that field. Institutions are listed for identification purposes only.

Vivian Shaw, University of Texas at Austin
Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego
A. Naomi Paik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Association for Asian American Studies
Program in Asian and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
Center for Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Global Asian Studies Program (GLAS), University of Illinois at Chicago

Cathy Schlund-Vials, University of Connecticut, Storrs and President, Association for Asian American Studies
Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York and President-Elect, American Studies Association
Mimi Thi Nguyen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Balbir K. Singh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yoon Pak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Christopher Eng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lila Sharif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julia Lee, University of California, Irvine
Genevieve A. Clutario, Harvard University
Suzanne Enzerink, Brown University
Kimberly McKee, Grand Valley State University
Laurel Mei-Singh, Princeton University
Grace I. Yeh, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Takuya Matsuda, University of North Texas
Chih-ming Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Loan Dao, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Mark Sanchez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sue J. Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Josen Masangkay Diaz, University of San Diego
Crystal Mun-hye Baik, University of California, Riverside
Timothy K. August, Stony Brook University
Christine "Xine" Yao, University of British Columbia
Neel Ahuja, University of California, Santa Cruz
Sunny Xiang, Yale University
Jorge Ramirez, University of California, San Diego
Derek Chang, Cornell University
Todd A. Henry, University of California, San Diego
Claire Edington, University of California, San Diego
Anthony Yooshin Kim, Hunter College
Nayan Shah, University of Southern California
Linda Vo, University of California, Irvine
Melissa Phruksachart, New York University
Ga Young Chung, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cynthia Wang, California State University, Los Angeles
Jinah Kim, California State University, Northridge
Ari Heinrich, University of California, San Diego
Christopher Patterson, Hong Kong Baptist University
Jih-Fei Cheng, Scripps College
Sovathana Sokhom, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Dorinne Kondo, University of Southern California
Allan Aquino, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Jane Hong, Occidental College
Maxwell Leung, California College of the Arts
Monica M. Trieu, Purdue University
Allan Lumba, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Vince Schleitwiler, University of Washington, Seattle
Mika Kennedy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Minwoo Jung, University of Southern California
Min Hyoung Song, Boston College
Joseph Allen Ruanto-Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University, University of California, San Diego
Margaret Rhee, University of Oregon
Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University
Elliott Young, Lewis & Clark College
Cindy I-Fen Cheng, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kim Tran, University of California, Los Angeles
April Merleaux, Florida International University
Eng-Beng Lim, Dartmouth College
Jigna Desai, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Pamela Thoma, Washington State University
Juliana Chang, Santa Clara University
Hoang Tan Nguyen, University of California, San Diego
Salonee Bhaman, Yale University
Dredge Kang, University of California San Diego
Leah Milne, University of Indianapolis
Mohamed Abumaye, University of California, San Diego
Yung Huang
Caroline Hong, Queens College, The City University of New York
Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, Linfield College
Marie Lo, Portland State University
Huan He, University of Southern California
Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Cynthia Wu, State University of New York, Buffalo
Shelley Lee, Oberlin College
Nancy Phan, University of California, San Diego
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Linh Nguyen, University of California, San Diego
Rawan Arar, University of California, San Diego
Cheryl Naruse, University of Dayton
Jennifer Ho, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Catherine Fung, Lick-Wilmerding High School
Patrick Rosal, Rutgers University, Camden
Glenn Kawafuchi (Retired)
Ju Hui Judy Han, University of Toronto
Esther Choi, University of California, San Diego
Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley
Wendy Cheng, Scripps College
Jane Hseu, Dominican University
Joseph Jeon, Pomona College
Saiba Varma, University of California, San Diego
Belinda C. Lum, Sacramento City College
Andrew Leong, Northwestern University
Madeline Hsu, University of Texas at Austin
Erica Cho, University of California, San Diego
Sarah Zhang, San Francisco State University
Joanne L. Rondilla, Arizona State University
Vinh Nguyen, University of Waterloo
Chad Shomura, Independent scholar
Umayyah Cable, Northwestern University
Dean Saranillio, New York University
Chris Chien, University of Southern California
Robert Diaz, University of Toronto
Rachael M. Joo, Middlebury College
Kristen Sun, University of California, Berkeley
Dai Kojima, York University
Kathy Nakagawa, Arizona State University
Yuhe Faye Wang, Yale University
Jason G. Coe, University of Hong Kong
David S. Roh, University of Utah
Erin Suzuki, University of California, San Diego
Lilly Nguyen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Sue Shon, University of Washington , Seattle
Yoonkyung Lee, University of Toronto
Emily Raymundo, University of Southern California
Siqi Jiang, University of Texas at Austin
Nishant Upadhyay, Northern Arizona University
Janelle S. Wong, University of Maryland, College Park
Viet N. Trinh, Yale University
Floyd Cheung, Smith College
Nhi Lieu, National Coalition of Independent Scholars
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
Meghan Cai, Grand Valley State University
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Thea Quiray Tagle, University of Washington, Bothell
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John Paul Catungal, University of British Columbia
Matthew M. Briones, University of Chicago
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Patricia Nguyen, Northwestern University
Adam Miyashiro, Stockton University
Donatella Galella, University of California, Riverside
Darwin Tsn, The Pennsylvania State University
Minh-Ha T. Pham, Pratt Institute
P.J. Gorre, The New School for Social Research
Gaye Chan, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Laura Kina, DePaul University
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Steven Wong, Pasadena City College
Kamala Visweswaran, University of California, San Diego
S. Heijin Lee, New York University
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H. Julie Kae, Metropolitan State University
Kit Myers, University of California, Merced
Robert G. Lee, Brown University
Grace J. Yoo, San Francisco State University
Paul Michael Atienza, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dana Takagi, University of California, San Diego
Patti Duncan, Oregon State University
Mimi Khuc, University of Maryland, College Park
Roderick Labrador, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Christine Mok, University of Cincinnati
Christine Quemuel, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Eric Tang, The University of Texas at Austin
Moises Park, Baylor University
Takeo Rivera, University of California, Berkeley
Timothy Yu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Simi Kang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yen Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
Stacilee Ford, The University of Hong Kong
Terry Park, Harvard University
Eliza Noh, California State University, Fullerton
Philip Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley
Bernadette Perez, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kong Pheng Pha, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Tyler Andrew Joji Davenport, University of California, San Diego
Gabriel Le Espiritu, University of California, San Diego
Eugene Alper, Los Angeles Unified School District
Darwin Fisk, Phoenix College
Laura Kang, University of California, Irvine
Anida Yoeu Ali, University of Washington, Bothell
Anna Guevarra, University of Illinois at Chicago
M. Bilal Nasir, Northwestern University
Keish Kim, Harvard University
Jeffrey Bayliss, Trinity College
Martina Pfeiler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Ross Frank, University of California, San Diego
Kelsey Amos, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Nerissa Balce, Stony Brook University
Y-Dang Troeung, City University of Hong Kong
Julian Lim, Arizona State University
JaeRan Kim, University of Washington, Tacoma
Laura Y. Liu, The New School
Andrea Louie, Michigan State University
Nathaniel Isaacson, North Carolina State University
Myra Washington, University of New Mexico
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Mila Zuo, Oregon State University
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Chrissy Lau, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
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Candace Fujikane, University of Hawaiʻi, at Mānoa
Grace Kyungwon Hong, University of California, Los Angeles
Haruki Eda, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Ellen-Rae Cachola, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
Alan Williams, University of Washington
Christina Chin, California State University, Fullerton
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Melinda Luisa de Jesus, California College of the Arts
shivani Narang, University of California, Berkeley
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Gale A. Yee, Episcopal Divinity School
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Graciela Anguiano, Xicana de Aztlan
Yvonne Y. Kwan, Dartmouth College
Robert A. Hegwood, University of Pennsylvania
Nancy Wang Yuen, Biola University
Ivy Ho, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Crystal Parikh, New York University
Kimi Takesue, Rutgers University, Newark
Jacqueline Mac, Indiana University, Bloomington
Sunny Yang, Louisiana State University
Sara Grossman, Pennsylvania State University
Emily Hue, University of California, Riverside
Fred Lee, The University of Connecticut, Storrs
Gregory Jue, Northwestern University
Nimanthi Rajasingham, Colgate University
Nalini Iyer, Seattle University
Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary's University
Tiffany M. Salter, The Ohio State University
Vrinda Marwah, University of Texas at Austin
Susan Shimazu, California State University Fullerton
Elizabeth Wallace, University of Alberta
Harvey Dong, University of California, Berkeley
Karen J. Lange (Retired)
Lea Johnson, University of California, San Diego
Stephen Covell, Western Michigan University
Miho Iwata, Towson University
Fay Yokomizo Akindes, University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Javier F. Casado Pérez, Pennsylvania State University
Josna Rege, Worcester State University
Allison Frickert-Murashige, Mt. San Antonio College
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Aline Lo, Allegheny College
Malathi Michelle Iyengar, University of California, San Diego
Nilanjana Bhattacharjya, Arizona State University
Valerie Yeo, University of Denver
Jo Hsu, Pennsylvania State University
Betsy Huang, Clark University
Ian Ang, Columbia University
April D. Hughes, Boston University
K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego
Martha Matsuoka, Occidental College
Meredith Holmgren
Maria Bates, Los Angeles Pierce College
Sherry C. Wang, Santa Clara University
Christopher Chen, University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael Pascual, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Karida L. Brown, University of California, Los Angeles
Faye Caronan, University of Colorado, Denver
Paul C. Fermin, Northwestern University
Lawrence Lan, University of California, Riverside
Chris Lee, University of British Columbia
Yuki Takauchi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clara Chiyoko Iwasaki, University of Alberta
Christine Peralta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Maria Celleri, University of California, San Diego
Oliver Wang, California State University, Long Beach
Movindri Reddy, Occidental College
Theresa Navarr, Hunter College
Alicia Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
Justin Mellette, Pennsylvania State University
Wing Yi Chan, Georgia State University
Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
Jael Vizcarra, University of California, San Diego
Troy Kokinis, University of California, San Diego
Stephanie Gesang, Wellesley College (Alumna)
Chandan Reddy, University of Washington
Edmond Chang, University of California, San Diego
Amy Bhatt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John Cheng, Binghamton University
V.V. Ganeshananthan, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Tom Dupont
Stephane Don Chiemi Parker, University of Alabama
Jian Chen, The Ohio State University
Susan M. Darlington, Hampshire College
Christina Chen, Center for Asian Pacific Islanders (Minnesota)
Abigail Andrews, University of California, San Diego
Leif Sorensen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Sarah D. Wald, University of Oregon
Sze-kar Wan, Southern Methodist University
Vicente Rafael, University of Washington, Seattle
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim, University of Southern California
Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Homay King, Bryn Mawr College
Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, University of California, Davis
Ai Binh Ho, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jamie O'Quinn, University of Texas at Austin
David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford University
E.K. Tan, Stony Brook University
Hongkyung Kim, Stony Brook University
Evyn Lê Espiritu, University of California, Berkeley
Joanne Yi, University of California, Berkeley
Timothy B. Weston, University of Colorado, Boulder
Ramona Gupta, Columbia College Chicago
Karen Kuo, Arizona State University
Vina Lanzona, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
Adam Aziz, University of Texas at Austin
Lily Wong, American University
Rob Sean Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kathleen Nadeau, California State University, San Bernardino
Peggy Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jonathan R. Tan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Douglas S. Ishii, Northwestern University
Jina B. Kim, Mount Holyoke College
Maryam Aziz, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kathryn Goldfarb, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paula Tin Nyo, Yone Arts International Foundation
Wendy Matsumura, University of California, San Diego
Catherine Man Chuen Cheng, University of Toronto
Kalindi Vora, University of California, San Diego
Kendra Alexander, Marion-Polk Food Share (Salem, Oregon)
Selena Hoy, Portland State University
Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke University
Dana Nakano, California State University, Stanislaus
Karen B. Hanna, University of California, Santa Barbara
Katherine Stanutz, University of Maryland, College Park
Margarethe Adams, Stony Brook University
Minjung Ryu, Purdue University
Moses Man, Seattle University
Sam Vong, University of Texas at Austin
Phitsamay Sychitkokhong Uy, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Yoshiyuki Kido, Hitotsubashi University
Jonas Park, University of North Texas
Audrey Wu Clark, United States Naval Academy
Pamela Herron, The University of Texas at El Paso
Nathan Jishin Michon, Graduate Theological Union
Ellen Wu, Indiana University, Bloomington
Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver
LiLi Johnson, Yale University
Maya Hislop, University of Virginia
Stephen Suh, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Charlene Tung, Sonoma State University
Julie Thi Underhill, California College of the Arts
Amy Jin Johnson, Brown University
Masumi Izumi, Doshisha University
Sho Ogawa, University of Kansas
rita zhang, University of California, Berkeley
Caroll Sun Yang, Antioch University
Lisong Liu, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Anjana Malhotra, University at Buffalo
Neha Vora, Lafayette College
Vidhu Aggarwal, Rollins College
Uyen Hoang, University of California, Los Angeles
James Huynh, University of California, Los Angeles
Krys Méndez Ramírez, University of California, San Diego
kate-hers RHEE, Independent Visual Artist
Nhu Le, University of South Florida
Erica Chutuape, Hunter College, The City University of New York
Quan Tran, Yale University
Jon Oda, University of Southern California (Alumnus)
Harrod Suarez, Oberlin College
Hana Lee, Purdue University
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Stony Brook University
MinJeong Kim, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Jenny Heijun Wills, University of Winnipeg
Megan Asaka, University of California, Riverside
Hentyle Yapp, New York University
Lokeilani Kaimana, University of Texas at Austin
Jin Young Choi, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School
Sujani Reddy, State University of New York at the College at Old Westbury
Chunshan Yi, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ayako Takamori, Marylhurst University
SooJin Pate, Independent scholar and writer
Samrat Upadhyay, Indiana University, Bloomington
Gina Masequesmay, California State University, Northridge
Jennifer Chang, George Washington University
Kara Takasaki, University of Texas at Austin
Cynthia Franklin, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
Jeannie N. Shinozuka, University of Washington, Seattle
Cara Caddoo, Indiana University, Bloomington
Nadia Y. Kim, Loyola Marymount University
Manan Desai, University of Michigan
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Son, Northwestern University
Mary Yee, University of Pennsylvania
Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, University of Texas at Austin
Garrett Hongo, University of Oregon
Kaylene Kauwila Sheldon, The John Munn Kahikina Kelekona Foundation
Helene Lee, Dickinson College
Rob Buscher, Arcadia University
Christina Tam, University of California, Berkeley
Barbara L. Voss, Stanford University
Sunn Shelley Wong, Cornell University
Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California, San Diego
Jacqueline Sadashige, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Hung, Rider University
Curtiss Takada Rooks, Loyola Marymount University
Joo Ok Kim, University of Kansas
Josephine Hung, Swarthmore College
R. Marie Barlow, University of California, San Diego
Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Sydney R. Chin, Emerson College
Iona Man-Cheong, Stony Brook University
Ishan Ashutosh, Indiana University, Bloomington
Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
Vanessa Teck, Indiana University Bloomington
Mary Anne Mohanraj, University of Illinois at Chicago
Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Southern California
Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder
Catherine Becker, University of Illinois at Chicago
Grace Kao, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa Borja, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York
Melissa Ann Canlas, San Francisco State University
Teresa Hodges, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Rama Sundari Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago
Janet H. Clarke, Stony Brook University
Diem-My T. Bui, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jessie Kindig, Columbia University
Min-Huei Lu, Stony Brook University
Jennifer Chan, University of British Columbia
Rosaura Sanchez, University of California, San Diego
Snehal Shingavi, University of Texas at Austin
Sarah Fong, University of Southern California
Jillian Hernandez, University of California, San Diego
Joan Linton, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dawn Wing, Suffolk County Community College
Namratha Kandula, Northwestern University
Jessica Wang, Northwestern University
Naoko Wake, Michigan State University
Shi Lin Loh, Harvard University (Alumna)
Tracy Y. Zhao, University of California, Los Angeles
Juhwan Seo, Harvard University
Suzanne Chen, Northwestern University
Ryan Yokota, DePaul University
Melody Chao, University of California Berkeley
Eri Kitada, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Minami Nishioka, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Sarah Oberholtzer, Northwestern University
Roshanak Kheshti, University of California, San Diego
Diana Fu, Northwestern University
Jacqueline Young, Wellesley College
Justin K.H. Tse, Northwestern University
Victoria Cabales, Northwestern University
Mia Zanzucchi, Northwestern University
Rosalie Chan, Northwestern University
Lilian Chin, Carnegie Mellon University
Wendy Allison Lee, Skidmore College
Alicia Zheng, Northwestern University
Justine Kim, Northwestern University
Rick Baldoz, Oberlin College
Alison Chan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kim Park Nelson, Minnesota State Unversity at Moorhead
Elliott H. Powell, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Megan Pan, Northwestern University
Linus Yamane, Pitzer College
Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Namiko Kunimoto, The Ohio State University
Anna Leong, University of California, Berkeley
Kathleen S. Yep, Claremont Colleges
Stacey J. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lisa Hirai Tsuchitani, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara
Isao Fujimoto, University of California, Davis
Richard Hung, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Tomo Hattori, California State University, Northridge
Ramsay Liem, Boston College (Emeritus)
Margaret Chin, The Graduate Center and Hunter College, The City University of New York
Khoi Nguyen, George Mason University
Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University
Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University
Andrew Leong, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Pitzer College
King-Kok Cheung, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Ji-Song Ku, Binghamton University
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Kirk A. Denton, The Ohio State University
Yi-Chun Tricia Lin, Southern Connecticut State University
Richard Kim, University of California, Davis
John Streamas, Washington State University
Isabel Anadon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher Fung, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Shirley Jennifer Lim, Stony Brook University
Usha Tummala-Narra, Boston College
Gilbert C. Gee, University of California, Los Angeles
Hayley Do, Hofstra University
Matthew Christensen, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Patrick Chung, Brown University
Sharon Goto, Pomona College
Jonathan F.U.D.T. Lee, San Francisco State University
Jason Finkelman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Josephine Park, University of Pennsylvania
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Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Binaya Subedi, The Ohio State University
Erica Boas, San Jose State University
Travis Seifman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Travis Smith, Yuba College
Kelly H. Jones, Stony Brook University
Leah Savage, Stony Brook University
Namhee Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
Sejung Ham, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jodi Kim, University of California, Riverside
Fariha Khan, University of Pennsylvania
Cody Rossler, Stony Brook University
Christine Hong, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Caroline Propersi, Stony Brook University
Megan Steffen, Tsinghua University
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine
Jonathan Grossman, University at Albany
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Wendy L. Rouse, San Jose State University
Susette Min, University of California, Davis
Miyabi Goto, Princeton University
Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Anne Blankenship, North Dakota State University
Keith L. Camacho, University of California, Los Angeles
Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, San Francisco State University
Gerardo Colmenar, University of California, Santa Barbara
Neferti Tadiar, Barnard College
Iyko Day, Mount Holyoke College
Arissa H. Oh, Boston College
Yu-ting Huang, Amherst College
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
David Yoo, University of California, Los Angeles
Lili M. Kim, Hampshire College
David Furumoto, University Wisconsin-Madison
Wei LI, Arizona State University
Susan B. Murray, San Jose State University
Rena M. Heinrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jo-Anne Lee, University of Victoria
Kaoru Hayashi, Princeton University
Heather Ruth Lee, New York University Shanghai
Yoosun Park, Smith College
David H. Kaufman, Transylvania University
Franklin Ng, California State University, Fresno
Roland Sintos Coloma, Northern Kentucky University
John Park, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jonathan Y. Okamura, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tracy Lachica Buenavista, California State University, Northridge
Yong Soon Min, University of California, Irvine
Carl Gabrielson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Jody Blanco, University of California, San Diego
Fanny Ng, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Lynet Uttal, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Jin Li, Brown University
David Torres-Rouff, University of California, Merced
YouYoung Kang, Scripps College
Ricco Siasoco, Columbia University
Rudy Guevarra Jr., Arizona State University
Ivy Daulo, California State University, Long Beach
Warren Liu, Scripps College
thu-huong nguyen-vo, University of California, Los Angeles
Zhiyi Yang, University of Frankfurt
Karen Umemoto, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Seri Lee, Northwestern University
Ian G. Baird, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Patrick Clarkin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Allan Isaac, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Mayfair Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
Meena Alexander, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York
Tommy Poehnelt, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Melissa M. Forbis, Stony Brook University
Mary Lui, Yale University
C.N. Le, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Leslie Wang, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Richard Chu, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Karen L. Suyemoto, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Robert T. Hayashi, Amherst College
Yukako OTORI, Harvard University
Caroline Frank, Brown University
Sheela Jane Menon, Dickinson College
Angela Zhao, University of Chicago
Colleen Kim Daniher, Brown University
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