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)

 jjchun@asianam.ucla.edu



By Last Name:



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

 mankekar@ucla.edu

Natalie Masuoka (Political Science, Asian American Studies)

 nmasuoka@ucla.edu

Valerie Matsumoto (History, Asian American Studies)

 matsumot@history.ucla.edu

Sean Metzger (Theater)

 smetzger@tft.ucla.edu

Rashmita Mistry (Education)

 mistry@gseis.ucla.edu

Hiroshi Motomura (Law)

 motomura@law.ucla.edu

 

Vinit Mukhija (Urban Planning, Asian American Studies)

 vmukhija@ucla.edu

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

 nguyenvo@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Koji Lau-Ozawa (Anthropology)

 khozawa2@g.ucla.edu