{"id":14,"date":"2010-09-30T16:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T23:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2023-01-10T19:28:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T03:28:37","slug":"the-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.amerasiajournal.org\/blog\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"The Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karen Umemoto, Interim Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Umemoto is the Helen and Morgan Chu Endowed Director’s Chair of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. She is currently a professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and of Asian American Studies.<\/p>\n

Professor Umemoto\u2019s research centers on issues of democracy and social justice in multicultural societies with a focus on US cities. She also examines and pursues planning processes that include a diverse array of voices, acknowledges different ways of knowing, and allows for meaningful deliberations. She is equally concerned about the structural, procedural and relational obstacles to attaining a just and democratic society. Her research and practice thus takes a broad view of planning in the context of social inclusion, participatory democracy and political transformation.<\/p>\n

She holds a PhD in Urban Studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MA in Asian American Studies from UCLA.<\/p>\n

Arnold Pan, Associate Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Arnold Pan is Associate Editor of\u00a0Amerasia Journal<\/em>. \u00a0Arnold holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Irvine, and attended Stanford University as an undergraduate. \u00a0In addition to Asian American Studies, Arnold\u2019s areas of academic expertise are ethnic literature and U.S. modernism. \u00a0Arnold has published an essay entitled\u00a0\u201cTransnationalism at the Impasse of Race: Sui Sin Far and U.S. Imperialism\u201d<\/a> in\u00a0Arizona Quarterly<\/em> (2010), as well as book reviews in\u00a0Amerasia<\/em>,\u00a0Genre<\/em>, and\u00a0Modern Fiction Studies<\/em>.\u00a0 He has an extensive background teaching Asian American Studies, American literature, and writing, having worked at UC Irvine and Loyola Marymount University.<\/p>\n

Arnold writes about his experiences in academia at the blog he co-created,\u00a0Post Academic<\/a>.\u00a0 He is also a music critic and a member of the editorial staff of\u00a0PopMatters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russell Leong, Contributing Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Russell C. Leong is the senior editor at-large for international projects for the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. \u00a0Between 1977-2010, he served as the editor of\u00a0Amerasia Journal<\/em>, the flagship scholarly journal in the field of Asian American American Studies. \u00a0He edited the first anthologies on Asian American visual media film arts, and on Asian American sexuality.\u00a0 He also directs the\u00a0U.S.\/China Media Brief<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

An award-winning writer, Leong has been honored with the PEN Josephine Miles Award for Literature for his book of poetry,\u00a0The Country of Dreams and Dust<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 His book\u00a0Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories<\/em><\/a> won the American Book Award and was selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 100 best books of fiction internationally for 2000. \u00a0He was one of fifty U.S. poets in the five-part PBS and book series,\u00a0The United States of Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0and his work has been translated in Mainland China and Taiwan. \u00a0In Spring 2011, Leong taught at Hunter College, as the first co-recipient of the Dr. Thomas Tam Fellowship.<\/p>\n

Leong heads the new\u00a0Literary E-Book Series<\/a> at UCLA, which will publish new and neglected Asian and Pacific American writers.<\/p>\n

Former Staff\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
\n<\/strong>Keith L. Camacho<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barbra Ramos
\nMary Uyematsu Kao<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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