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Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC): 2025-26

UCLA has the largest and most diverse faculty in Asian American Studies in the nation, with nearly sixty professors who teach and undertake research on Asian Pacific Americans from disciplines ranging from History to Urban Planning, and Literature to Public Health.



Faculty Advisory Committee Chair


Purnima Mankekar

Jennifer J. Chun (Asian American Studies, Labor Studies)

Email jjchun@asianam.ucla.edu



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Faculty Advisory Committee: Facpurnimamankekar

Purnima Mankekar (Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, Film, Television, and Digital Media, Anthropology)

Email mankekar@ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Facnataliemasuoka

Natalie Masuoka (Political Science, Asian American Studies)

Email nmasuoka@ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Facvaleriematsumoto

Valerie Matsumoto (History, Asian American Studies)

Email matsumot@history.ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Facseanmetzger

Sean Metzger (Theater)

Email smetzger@tft.ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Facrashmitamistry

Rashmita Mistry (Education)

Email mistry@gseis.ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Fachiroshimotomura

Hiroshi Motomura (Law)

Email motomura@law.ucla.edu

 

Vinit Mukhija (Urban Planning, Asian American Studies)

Email vmukhija@ucla.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee: Facthu Huongnguyen Vo

Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo (Asian Language & Cultures, Asian American Studies)

Email nguyenvo@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Koji Lau-Ozawa (Anthropology)

Email khozawa2@g.ucla.edu





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