Section Officers
Mary Yu Danico (2008-2009)
Mary Yu Danico is Professor of Sociology and the Interim Director of the Michi and Walter Wegyn Endowed Chair of Multicultural Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her main areas of research include international migration; ethnic and racial relations; Korean American diaspora, ethnic identity and 1.5 and 2nd generation; immigrant families; and Asian American youth. She has published many articles and book chapters, and is the author of The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), Asian American Issues (Greenwood Press, 2004), and is currently finishing up her co-edited book, Transforming the Ivory Tower: Challenging Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism in Higher Education. Danico is currently working on her 3rd book project: Korean American Diaspora: Constructing Communities and Fluid Transnational Boundaries and is finishing up her research on low-income Asian Pacific Islander youth in Orange County. She advocates for underrepresented students and junior scholars and is currently working with departments and organizations through-out the nation to participate in a National Campaign to read Years of Infamy by Michi Weglyn and participate in a national teach-in on or around the Day of Remembrance, February 19, 2009.
Chair-Elect:
Yanjie Bian (2008-2009)
Yanjie Bian is Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, the funding director of the Survey Research Center at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the co-PI of the Chinese General Social Survey. His areas of research are social stratification and mobility, social networks, economic sociology, and contemporary Chinese society. An author and co-editor of seven books, he has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Chinese. His most recent research is about the roles social networks play in Chinese transitional economy.
Past-Chair:
Min Zhou (2007-2008)
Min Zhou is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her main areas of research include international migration; ethnic and racial relations; ethnic entrepreneurship, education and the new second generation; Asia and Asian America; and urban sociology. She has published more than 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, some of which have translated and published in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is the author of Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (Temple University Press, 1992), The Transformation of Chinese America (Sanlian Publishers, 2006), and Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation (Temple University Press, 2009); co-author of Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998); co-editor of Contemporary Asian America (New York University Press, 2nd ed., 2007) and Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity (Routledge, 2004). Zhou is currently working on two book projects: Chinatown, Koreatown, and Beyond: How Ethnicity Matters for Immigrant Education (Blackwell, forthcoming) and Los Angeles’ New Second Generation: Mobility, Identity, and the Making of a New American Metropolis (with Jennifer Lee).
Secretary-Treasurer:
Jiannbin L. Shiao (2008-2009)
Jiannbin Lee Shiao is Associate Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests are in interracial intimacy, genomics, racial-ethnic identity, transracial adoption, and organizational diversity policy. He published his book, Identifying Talent, Institutionalizing Diversity: Race and Philanthropy in Post-Civil Rights America (Duke University Press) in 2005 and has published articles in American Journal of Sociology, Asian American Policy Review, Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, and Race and Society.
Council Members:
Carolyn Chen (2009)
Carolyn Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and the Program in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002. Her research interests include religion, immigration, race and ethnicity. She recently published her book, Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Conversion (Princeton, 2008).
Xiaoling Shu (2009)
Xiaoling Shu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1997. Her research interests include social stratification, gender, quantitative methods, life course, social demography, and comparative studies. She has published in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Social Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and Social Science Quarterly. Her current research focuses on the impact of globalization and marketization on gender inequalities and value orientations in urban China.
Lisa Park (2010)
Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She received her doctorate in sociology from Northwestern University. Her areas of research and teaching include immigration, environmental justice, urban social policy, and Asian American Studies. In addition to journal articles and book chapters, she has published two books: Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Stanford University Press, 2005) and Silicon Valley of Dreams: Immigrant Labor, Environmental Injustice, and the High Tech Global Economy (co-authored with David N. Pellow, NYU Press, 2002).
Angie Chung (2010)
Angie Y. Chung is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2001 and has served as Visiting Professor at Yonsei and Korea University. Her areas of expertise include immigration and the second generation, community and urban sociology, race and ethnicity, Asian American studies, qualitative methods, and gender and family. She recently released her book Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics (Stanford University Press, 2007).
Rebecca Kim (2010)
Rebecca Y. Kim is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Pepperdine University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2003. Her research interests are in immigration, the second-generation, and religion. She recently published her book, God's New Whiz Kids? Korean American Evangelicals on Campus (NYU Press 2006). She is currently the director of the ethnic studies program at Pepperdine University.
Xiaogang Wu (2011)
Xiaogang Wu is Associate Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2001, and spent two years at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor as an Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow (2001-2003). His research interests include social stratification and mobility, labor markets and economic sociology, and quantitative methodology. He has published in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, and Demography. He has received the prestigious National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship (2006), the Best Paper Award on Asia (2006) and the Asian and Asian American Early Career Award (2007) from the American Sociological Association.
Yong Cai (2011)
Yong Cai is Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Utah. His research interests range from social demography, comparative sociology, to sociology of health, with a strong empirical focus on China. He is currently working on a project aimed at facilitating China’s transition away from its “one-child” policy by examining the social and economic implications of below replacement fertility in a global context.
Student Representative:
Sabeen Sandhu (2008-2009)
Sabeen Sandhu recently received a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation explores the culture of success among Asian Indian elites in California’s Southland and the Silicon Valley. At present she is an instructor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University and at Las Positas College.