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:



Ju Hui Judy Han

Ju Hui Judy Han (Gender Studies)

 judyhan@ucla.edu

Grace Hong

Grace Hong (Asian American Studies, Gender Studies)

 gracehongucla@gmail.com

Nour Joudah

Nour Joudah (Asian American Studies)

 nourjoudah@g.ucla.edu

Jerry Kang

Jerry Kang (Law)

 kang@law.ucla.edu

Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim

Bo-Kyung Elizabeth Kim (Community Health Sciences)

 benitebk@ucla.edu

Gina Kim

Gina Kim (Film, Television, and Digital Media)

 ginakim@tft.ucla.edu

Vinay Lal

Vinay Lal (History, Asian American Studies)

 vlal@history.ucla.edu

Anna Lau

Anna S. Lau (Psychology, Asian American Studies)

 alau@psych.ucla.edu

Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi

Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi (Asian American Studies)

 elegandhi@ucla.edu

Rachel Lee

Rachel Lee (English, Gender Studies)

 rlee@humnet.ucla.edu

Summer Kim

Summer Kim Lee (English)

 summerkimlee@ucla.edu