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The faculty and staff of Asian American Studies includes dedicated scholars that specialize in the rich cultural traditions and contemporary experiences of Asian American communities.

Director

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Charles Tien
Professor
Office
68th Street West 1719
Phone
(212) 772-5494
Email
ctien@hunter.cuny.edu

Charles Tien is a professor in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Asian American Studies Program. He specializes in American Politics, Congress, Race and Ethnicity, and Quantitative Research Methods.

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Deputy Director

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Daniel Woo
Distinguished Lecturer
Office
68th Street West 1312
Phone
(212) 772-4053
Email
dw2492@hunter.cuny.edu

Daniel Kiho Woo is the inaugural Helen Zia Distinguished Lecturer in Asian American Studies and Deputy Director of the Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College.

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Faculty

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Linh An
Adjunct Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
la1092@hunter.cuny.edu
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Alexa Climaldi
Adjunct Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
alexa.climaldi79@login.cuny.edu
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Fidelito C. Cortes
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
fc1212@hunter.cuny.edu
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Maya Jeffereis
Adjunct Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
mjeffe@hunter.cuny.edu
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Christopher M. Kwok
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
ck2237@hunter.cuny.edu
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Jason Le-Reselosa
Adjunct Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
jl13365@hunter.cuny.edu
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Meera Lee
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
ml6732@hunter.cuny.edu
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Christopher D. Lin
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
cl25@hunter.cuny.edu
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Marcia Liu
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
ML2138@hunter.cuny.edu
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Jackelyn Mariano
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
jmmarian@hunter.cuny.edu
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Akshar Patel
Adjunct Professor
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
ap10156@hunter.cuny.edu
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Rebecca Farrah Qidwai
Adjunct Lecturer
Office
68th Street West 1336
Email
rqidwai@hunter.cuny.edu
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Mitchel Wu
Adjunct Lecturer
Office
68th Street West 1338
Phone
(212) 772-5660
Email
mwu0004@hunter.cuny.edu

Staff

Angelica Calderon
Administrative Assistant
Email
ac15130@hunter.cuny.edu

Emeritus Faculty

Peter Kwong

Peter Kwong (1941 - 2017) was Distinguished Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, as well as Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was a pioneer in Asian American studies, a leading scholar of immigration, and an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, widely recognized for his passionate commitment to human rights and social justice. As a scholar, he was best known for his work on Chinese Americans and on modern Chinese politics. His books include Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community and Chinese Americans: An Immigrant Experience, co-authored with his wife, Chinese historian Dusanka Miscevic. His other books include Forbidden Workers: Chinese Illegal Immigrants and American Labor (selected by Barnes and Noble as one of the Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 1998), The New Chinatown, and Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics 1930-1950. He was a frequent contributor to The Nation, the International Herald Tribune, the Globe and Mail, Village Voice and other major English language publications. His exposés of Chinese drug syndicates and Los Angeles racial riots were each nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Kwong was also a documentary filmmaker, most recently a co-producer of China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province for HBO, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010. As an activist, he regularly consulted to the media on immigrant and labor issues. His scholarship was informed by vigorous public activism and the belief in advancing social causes through a combination of media and academia, both in the classroom and in society at large. Professor Kwong was the inaugural director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter, and was a tireless advocate for Asian American students and faculty at the College.

A message from Joseph P. Viteritti, Chair of the Department of Urban Policy and Planning, concerning the March 17, 2017 passing of Distinguished Professor Peter Kwong.

Meena Alexander

Meena Alexander was a distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She had a special interest in the areas of poetry, transnational and Asian American poetics, gender, migration and memory. She was born in India and raised there and in Sudan, at eighteen she went to England to study She had a BA Honors from Khartoum University in English and French and a Ph.D in English Studies from Nottingham University.

Her fellowships include those from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Arts Council of England, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and Francis Wayland Collegium Lecturer at Brown University. She was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and held the Martha Walsh Pulver residency for a poet at Yaddo.

In addition to three earlier volumes of poetry published in her twenties when she was in India, she had several volumes of poetry including the collections, Illiterate Heart (2002), which won the PEN Open Book Award, Raw Silk (2004) and Quickly Changing River (2008). She was the editor of Indian Love Poems (2005) published by the Everyman’s Series. Alexander produced the autobiography, Fault Lines (1993), chosen as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 1993, and revised in 2003 to incorporate significant new material. She also published two novels, Nampally Road (1991) and Manhattan Music (1997); a book of poems and essays, The Shock of Arrival: Reflections on Postcolonial Experience (1996) and two academic studies, one of which is Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley (1989). Her reflections on poetry, migration and memory Poetics of Dislocation appears in 2009 in the Poets on Poetry Series, University of Michigan Press. More recent poetry collections included Birthplace With Buried Stones in 2013 and Atmospheric Embroidery, published in 2018.
A book of essays on her work Passage to Manhattan: Essays on Meena Alexander (eds. Lopamudra Basu and Cynthia Leenerts) appears in 2009 from the Cambridge Scholars Press, UK.

www.meenaalexander.com

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