Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC): 2017-18

I am most interested in work that will promote the health and well-being of children. My research focuses on child obesity and particularly on the effects of the changing physical and social environments on children globally. I have been working with ethnic minority populations in California and am now beginning work on minority groups in Asian countries.

I have been a member of the UCLA law faculty since 2008, and previously a law school faculty member at the University of Colorado (Boulder) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). My primary scholarship interests are in the area of immigration and citizenship, with an emphasis on how the legal rights of noncitizens shapes their integration into U.S. society. I teach courses on Immigration Law, Immigrants' Rights, and occasionally also on Civil Procedure.

Professor Robert A. Nakamura, a pioneering filmmaker and influential teacher and mentor, "the Godfather of Asian American media" has been a major force in the conception and growth of community media since 1970. Nakamura left a successful career in photojournalism and advertising photography to become one of the first to explore, interpret and present the experiences of Japanese Americans in film. His ground-breaking personal documentary Manzanar (1972) revisited painful childhood memories of incarceration in an American concentration camp during World War II, and it has been selected for major retrospectives on the documentary form at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Film Forum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles

Don T. Nakanishi, Ph.D., is the Director Emeritus of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the largest and most renowned research and teaching institute in Asian American Studies in the nation, and Professor Emeritus of UCLA's departments of Asian American Studies and education. Prior to his retirement from UCLA in 2009 after a thirty-five year professorial career at the university (and the last twenty years also as Center Director), he provided leadership and vision for the national development of the fields of Asian American Studies and Race and Ethnic Relations Scholarship for four decades.

Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong is associate professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA. Her current research explores forms of knowledge in collective action and cultural production by Vietnamese nationals and diasporics who must live with past and current violence in politics and economic production.