Asia, Pacific, and Diaspora Studies Faculty

Director

Anita Mannur Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies

Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ literature, food studies, transnational Sout…

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Program Faculty

Anita Mannur Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies

Anita Mannur is Director of the Asia, Pacific and Diaspora Studies and Professor of Critical Race and Gender Studies. Her research areas are Asian Â鶹´«Ã½ literature, food studies, transnational Sout…

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Suzanne Persard Assistant Professor CAS | Critical RGC Studies

Suzanne C. Persard (PhD, Emory University) is Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies at Â鶹´«Ã½, Facult…

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Quynh Vo Professorial Lecturer CAS | Critical RGC Studies

Dr. Quynh Vo is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at Â鶹´«Ã½. Her…

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Lily Wong Associate Professor CAS | Literature

Lily Wong is an Associate Professor in the departments of Literature (LIT) and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies (CRGC) at Â鶹´«Ã½. She also serves as an Associate Director of Faculty…

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Ìý (202) 885-2987

Affiliated Faculty

C. Anne Claus Associate Professor CAS | Anthropology

C. Anne Claus is a cultural anthropologist who researches environmental issues in contemporary seascapes, primarily in Japan. Her academic work investigates how the interplay of international and loca…

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Ìý (202) 885-6797

Priya Doshi Associate Dean for Faculty and Inclusive Excellence DOF | Deputy Provost & Dean of Faculty Office

Priya Lothe Doshi is Associate Dean of Faculty and Inclusive Excellence in Â鶹´«Ã½'s Office of the Provost. Working with the Dean of Faculty, Professor Doshi supports faculty affairs polic…

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Ìý (202) 885-2017

Leena Jayaswal Professor SOC | Film & Media Arts

Leena Jayaswal is a documentary filmmaker, award-winning photographer and Professor in the School of Communication at Â鶹´«Ã½ in Washington DC, where she is the director of the new BA in P…

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Ìý (202) 885-2662

Ying-Chen Peng Associate Professor CAS | Art

Dr. Peng specializes in late imperial and modern Chinese art history with a focus on gender issues and globalization of material culture. Before joining the Â鶹´«Ã½ she worked at the Natio…

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Ìý (202) 885-6475

Malini Ranganathan Associate Professor SIS | Environment, Development & Health

Malini Ranganathan is Associate Professor in the School of International Service at Â鶹´«Ã½, and a political ecologist and geographer by training. She is a faculty affiliate of three un…

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Other faculty members throughout the university have a deep expertise in Asian and/or Asian diasporic areas of research and teaching. Students are encouraged to take their relevant courses as part of their study in the APDS program.