Vicente Diaz, Director of Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies; Associate Professor, LSA American Culture. Primary Interests: Native Pacific cultural studies; U.S. imperialism and decolonization in the Pacific Islands; Pacific film and video critique and production; traditional Carolinian seafaring; cultural studies of sports.
Scott Kurashige, Associate Professor, LSA History, LSA American Culture. Primary Interests: Asian/Pacific American history; U.S. urban history, Los Angeles and Detroit; comparative race and ethnicity. Secondary Fields of Study: African-American history; social movements; community service-learning.
Emily P. Lawsin, Lecturer III, LSA Women's Studies, LSA American Culture. Primary Interests: Filpina/o-American history, literature, and communities; oral history, public history, creative writing, spoken-word performance poetry, Asian-American studies, activism and community service-learning. Secondary Fields of Study: Pinay Power pedagogy; race, gender, class and cultural discourse in American media; short-fiction writing; ethnic studies online composition.
Susan Najita. Associate Professor , LSA English Language & Lit., LSA American Culture . Primary Interests: Pacific literatures in English; Asian-American literatures; U.S. minority literatures; postcolonial literature and theory; film and cultural studies; theories of gender and sexuality. Secondary Fields of Study: 20th-century U.S. literature, modernism.
Damon Salesa, Associate Professor, LSA History, LSA American Culture . Primary Interests: The islands Pacific (especially Samoa and New Zealand). American and British imperialism and colonialism in the Pacific. "Race" (particularly the question of race mixing/racial hybridity).
Sarita See, Associate Professor , LSA American Culture, LSA English Language & Lit. Primary Interests: Asian-American literature, late 19th and 20th century American literature, postcolonial and empire studies, critical race theory, narratology. Secondary Fields of Study: U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American literature.
Amy Stillman, Associate Professor, LSA American Culture and School of Music. Primary Interests: Ethnomusicology, Pacific Islands performance traditions, dance ethnology. Secondary Fields of Study: Diaspora studies, historiography of performance, popular culture, American music.
