Faculty Updates
Yong Chen was featured in the Los Angeles Times’ “Daily Read” on Jan. 12, 2005. The article “The Morning Read: Dipping into the Melting Pot” covered his current research project on ethnic food and culture in America. See: http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/01/12/sections/morning_read/article_374403.php Dorothy Fujita-Rony is the faculty contact for the Graduate Emphasis in Asian American Studies. Ketu H. Katrak recently stepped down as the Chair of the Asian American Studies Dept. after 8 years of dedicated service. Selected Publications: "Cultural Translation of Bharata Natyam into Contemporary Indian Dance: Second-Generation South Asian Americans and Cultural Politics in Diasporic Locations" in Journal of South Asian Popular Culture, Vol. 2, No. 2, (Oct. 2004) pp.79-102; "Literary Matters: Research Methods in Reading Ethnic Literatures" in Handbook of Research Methods in Ethnic Studies, ed. Timothy Fong, (Alta Mira Press, forthcoming) pp.30; and “Edward Said” in Amerasia Journal: “Said Forum,” Vol.31, No. 1 (forthcoming) pp.10. Selected Presentations: "Bodies in Motion: Bharata Natyam into Contemporary Indian Dance in Southern California" @ the Assoc. of Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, April 20-24, 2005. Claire Kim is currently on Leave of Absence and will return in the 2005-06 academic year. Karen B. Leonard’s book Muslims in the United States: the State of Research (Russell Sage, 2003) gained her multiple speaking engagements. Selected Presentations: "American Muslims before and after 9/11," National Newswriters Conference, Washington D.C. (Sep. 11, 2004); "American Muslims: Race, Religion, and Nation," Pitzer College annual Sociology Retreat, Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles (Oct. 31, 2004); “Religions in Asian America” panel, University of California, Irvine (Feb. 3, 2005); "Finding Places in the Nation: Immigrant and Indigenous Muslims in America" at the USC conference on Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants (Feb. 4-5, 2005); and "Locating Home in a Changing World: India's Hyderabadis Abroad" at the Stanford Humanities Center workshop on Interrogating Modernity & Postcoloniality (Mar. 8, 2005). Selected Publications: Locating Home in a Changing World: India’s Hyderabadis Abroad (forthcoming). John Liu is the department’s new Undergraduate Advisor and he will be available to address students’ inquiries regarding majoring and minoring in Asian Am, studying abroad programs, and Asian Am courses. Glen Mimura received his book contract for Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Media Arts and the Politics of Representation from the Univ. of Minnesota Press. He also writes “A Dying West? Reimagining the Frontier in Frank Matsura’s Photography, 1903-1913” in Cultural Studies/Critical Methodology (forthcoming). R. Radhakrishnan is the new Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies. Selected Publications: “A tribute to Edward Said” in Journal of Contemporary Thought, Fall 2004; “Translatability in an Uneven World,” in Rethinking Modernity, eds. Prafulla Kar, et al (Pencraft International, New Delhi, 2005). Selected Presentations: “Democracy and the future of citizen sovereignty,” at the University of Morocco (March 2005); “Revisionism and the Subject of History,” and “Edward Said and the Politics of Secular Humanism,” at a number of universities in South Africa (March 2005); “Human Nature and the Ontology of Capital” at the Sociology Conference on World Systems Theory, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (April 2005). Mary Ann Takemoto is this academic year’s advising faculty for the Asian American Theme House.
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