Asian American Studies Center
3230 Campbell Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1546
(310) 825-2974, FAX (310) 206-9844
Email:dtn@ucla.edu
www.aasc.ucla.edu
Director: Don T. Nakanishi
Associate Director: Robert Nakamura
Assistant Director: Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca
Center Faculty: Paul Ong (Urban Planning and Asian American Studies), Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Roshan Bastani (Public Health),Emil Berkanovic (Public Health),Lucy Burns (World Arts & Cultures and Asian American Studies), Keith Camacho (Asian American Studies), Mitchell Chang (Education and Asian American Studies), Lucie Cheng (Sociology), King-kok Cheung (English and Asian American Studies), Clara Chu (Library & Information Science and Asian American Studies), C. Cindy Fan (Geography and Asian American Studies Department Chair), Nancy Harada (Medicine), Lane Hirabayashi (AAS & George and Sakaye Aratani Prof. of Japanese American Internment, Redress, and Community), Grace Hong (Asian American Studies and Women's Studies), Shirley Hune (Urban Planning and Graduate Division), Marjorie Kagawa-Singer (Public Health - Community Health Science and Asian American Studies), Jerry Kang (Law), Snehendu Kar (Public Health and Asian American Studies), Vinay Lal (History and Asian American Studies), Anna Lau (Psychology and Asian American Studies), Rachel Lee (English), Russell Leong (English and Asian American Studies), Jinqi Ling (English and Asian American Studies Department Vice-Chair), David Wong Louie (English and Asian American Studies). Takashi Makinodan (Medicine), Purnima Mankeka (Asian American Studies and Women's Studies), Valerie Matsumoto (History and Asian American Studies), Ailee Moon (Social Welfare and Asian American Studies), Vinit Mujhija (Urban Planning and Asian American Studies), Robert Nakamura (Asian American Studies and Japanese American Alumni Professor of Japanese American Studies), Don Nakanishi (Education and Asian American Studies), Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo (Asian Language & Cultures and Asian American Studies), Kazuo Nihira (Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences), William Ouchi (Anderson School of Management), Kyeyoung Park (Anthropology and Asian American Studies), Ninez Ponce (Public Health and Asian American Studies), Michael Salman (History and Asian American Studies), Shu-Mei Shih (Asian Language & Cultures; Comparative Lit. and Asian American Studies), Lois Takahashi (Urban Planning and Asian American Studies), James Tong (Political Science), Cindy Yee-Bradbury (Psychology), Henry Yu (History and Asian American Studies), Min Zhou (Sociology and Asian American Studies)
Center Staff: Assistant Director, Melany Dela Cruz-Viesca; Fiscal Manager and MSO: Christine Wang and Tuanvu Le; Office Manager: Irene Soriano; Center Press Coordinator and Senior Editor of Amerasia Journal: Russell Leong; Amerasia Journal and AAPI Nexus Assistant Editor: Stephanie Santos; Center Press Design and Production Coordinator: Mary Kao; Center Press Distribution Manager: Ying Min Tu; Student Community Projects Coordinator: Meg Thornton; Center Librarian and Coordinator of Center Library and Special Collections: Marjorie Lee; Center Library Assistant Coordinator: Judy Soo Hoo; Information Technology Coordinator: Tam Nguyen; Center for EthnoCommunications Assistant Director: Vivian Wong; Special Assistant for Development and Lecturer: Tritia Toyota.
General Information of the Center:
Founded in 1969, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center is celebrating its 38th anniversary in 2007 and rapidly approaching its major 40th anniversary milestone. It is now the largest and most comprehensive institution of its kind in Asian American Studies in the nation, with active core programs in research, undergraduate and graduate teaching and training, publications, library and archival collections, student leadership development, joint university-community research projects and partnerships, endowment and development campaigns, and public educational activities. Please visit the Center's web site (http://www.aasc.ucla.edu) for more information about the Center's Amerasia Journal, AAPI Nexus, and other publications of the Center Press; its affiliated research institutes like the Center for EthnoCommunications, Asian Pacific American Community Development Data Center, and the UC AAPI Policy Initiative; its special archival collections and Center library; free downloads of its research reports, Center brochure and Crosscurrents newsmagazine; student and community projects; and the latest news of conferences, film showings, and other activities.
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