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Evelyn Hu-DeHart is Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown. Previously, she was Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Research Interests: The goal of Professor Hu-DeHart's diaspora project is to uncover and recover the history of Asian migration to Latin America and the Caribbean, and to document and analyze the contributions of these immigrants to the formation of Latin/Caribbean societies and cultures. It should also contribute towards theorizing diasporas and transnationalism. Hu-DeHart also hopes that her work would broaden the scope of Asian American Studies as well as contribute to an area not well covered within Latin American Studies.

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Gary Okihiro is a professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, and Director of the Asian-American Studies Program at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles in 1976.

Research Interests: Asian-American Studies, Southern Africa

Publications:
A Social History of the Bakwena and the Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century.
Storied Lives: Japanese American Students and World War II.
Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II.
Margins and Mainstreams: Asians in American History and Culture



Stephen Sumida is a professor of Literature, Chair of American Ethnic Studies at University of Washington, and President of National American Studies Association. He received his Ph.D at University of Washington in 1982.

Research Interests: Asian/Pacific American literature and interdisciplinary studies; comparative American ethnic literatures; interdisciplinary American Studies.

Publications:
A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. Co-edited with Sau-ling Cynthia Wong.
And the View from the Shore: Literary Traditions of HawaiŽi
Asian American Literature of Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography. Co-authored with Arnold T. Hiura. (Winner of the Cultural Studies Book Award of the Association for Asian American Studies, 1992)