Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC): 2022-23

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

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

 mankekar@ucla.edu



By Last Name:



Kyeyoung Park (Anthropology, Asian Amerian Studies)

 kpark@anthro.ucla.edu

Sunita Patel (Law)

 patel@law.ucla.edu

Ninez Ponce (Health Policy and Management, Asian American Studies)

 nponce@ucla.edu

 

Loubna Qutami (Asian American Studies)

 loubnaqutami@g.ucla.edu

 

Robert Chao Romero (Chicana/o and Central American Studies, Asian American Studies)

 rcromero@chavez.ucla.edu

Ananya Roy (Urban Planning, Social Welfare, Geography)

 ananya@luskin.ucla.edu

 

Cindy C. Sangalang (Social Welfare, Asian American Studies)

 Cindy.Sangalang@luskin.ucla.edu

Margaret Shih (Management and Organizations, Psychology)

 margaret.shih@anderson.ucla.edu

Shu-Mei Shih (Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies)

 shih@humnet.ucla.edu

May Sudhinaraset (Community Health Sciences)

 msudhinaraset@ucla.edu

Renee Tajima-Peña (Asian American Studies)

 rtajima@asianam.ucla.edu

Robert Teranishi (Education)

 robert.teranishi@ucla.edu

Tritia Toyota (Asian American Studies, Anthropology)

May Wang (Community Health Science)

 maywang@ucla.edu

 

Lee Ann S. Wang (Social Welfare, Asian American Studies)

 leeann@ucla.edu

Benjamin Woo (Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Asian American Studies)

 bkpwoo@gmail.com

Cindy Yee-Bradbury (Psychology, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences)

 yee@psych.ucla.edu

Karen Umemoto (Urban Planning, Asian American Studies)

 kumemoto@luskin.ucla.edu

David K. Yoo (Asian American Studies, History)

 dkyoo@ucla.edu

Min Zhou (Sociology, Asian American Studies)

 mzhou@soc.ucla.edu