Mia Tuan (2010-2011)

Mia Tuan (Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA) shares her time and talents as Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Director of the Center on Diversity and Community, and Professor in the Education Studies Department at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic identity development; Asian transracial adoption; and multicultural organizational development.

Chair-Elect:

Lisa Sun-Hee Park (2011-2012)

Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Ph.D., Sociology, Northwestern) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include immigration and welfare policy; immigrant health care; race, class, and gender; Asian American Studies; environmental justice; and urban theory and methods.

Past-Chair:

Yanjie Bian (2009-2010)

Yanjie Bian (Ph.D., Sociology, State University of New York, Albany) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on structural sociology; social stratification and mobility; economic sociology; social networks; and contemporary Chinese societies in East Asia. Since 2003, he has been a Co-PI of the Chinese General Social Surveys.

Secretary-Treasurer:

Jiannbin L. Shiao (2009-2012)

Jiannbin Shiao (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Professor, and Undergraduate Program Director, in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon. His research interests include philanthropic diversity policy; racial/ethnic identity of transracial adoptees; social segregation and interracial intimacy; and race/ethnicity and genetics.

Yong Cai (2011)

Yong Cai (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Washington) is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His areas of interest are social demography; sociology of health; Chinese society; comparative historical sociology; and research methodology.

Xiaogang Wu (2011)

Xiaogang Wu (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of Social Science and the Founding Director of the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (CASER) at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include social stratification and mobility; labor markets and economic sociology; and quantitative methodology.

Margaret Abraham (2012)

Margaret Abraham (Ph.D., Sociology, Syracuse University, New York) is Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University, New York and Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity Initiatives at Hofstra University. Her areas of interest are ethnicity, globalization, migration, domestic violence, and the South Asian Diaspora. She was recently elected as Vice President, Research Council of the International Sociological Association (2010-2014) and is also the American Sociological Association representative to the Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association (2010-2014).

Monisha Das Gupta (2012)

Monisha Das Gupta (Ph.D., Sociology, Brandeis University) is Associate Professor of Ethnic and Women's Studies and Director for the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Her areas of research and teaching include migration; globalization; U.S. race relations; labor; social movements through a transnational feminist perspective; qualitative methods; and feminist theory.

C.N. Le (2013)

C.N. Le (Ph.D., Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York) is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests and current projects revolve around race and ethnicity; immigration; and comparative outcomes of structural, socioeconomic, and culture assimilation among Asian Americans, particularly Vietnamese Americans. He also maintains Asian-Nation.org, an online information resource about Asian American history, culture, and current issues

Bandana Purkayastha (2013)

Bandana Purkayastha (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Connecticut) is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and publications revolve around race and ethnic minority relations; sex and gender; migration and transnationalism; peace; and human rights.

Leland Saito (2013)

Leland Saito (Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles) is Associate Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research specialties include race and ethnic relations; Asian American Studies; urban politics; urban sociology; historic preservation; economic development; redistricting; and qualitative research methods.

Phi Su (2010-2011)

Phi Hong Su graduated with her B.A. in Sociology from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona in June 2010. She is a 1st year Ph.D student in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she intends to pursue research on race/ethnicity; immigration; and political sociology.