Lok Siu
Professor
Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies
Chinese Diaspora, Cultural Citizenship, Cultural Politics of Food, Diaspora / Transnationalism; Asians in the Americas, Ethnography
PhD, Anthropology, Stanford University, 2000
MA, Anthropology, Stanford University 1995
BA, Anthropology, minor in Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Bio & Research Interests
Prof. Sui is currently completing a manuscript tentatively titled, Chino Latin@: Recovering Hemispheric Asian America, which explores the transnational connections among Asians in the Americas within the context of coloniality, geopolitics, and competing nationalisms. She is also expanding her interest into food studies and working on an ethnography tentatively titled, The Food Truck Generation.
Courses Taught
Asian Diasporas
Transnational Americas
Ethnography: Theories and Methods
Books
Select publications
2013 “Twenty-First Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness.” Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader, edited by Robert Ko, Martin Manalansan, and Anita Mannur. NYU Press.
2012 “From Culture and Truth to Cultural Citizenship: Tools for Practicing Committed Anthropology and Engaged Scholarship.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. Special Issue on the 20th Anniversary of Culture and Truth: the Remaking of Social Analysis by Renato Rosaldo. Volume 37. Number 1.
2012 “Serial Migration: Stories of Home and Belonging in Diaspora. New Routes for Diaspora Studies. Edited by Sukanya Banarjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steve McKay. 21st Century Studies Book Series. Indiana University Press.
2008 “Chino Latino Restaurants: Converging Communities, Identities, and Cultures.” Afro-Hispanic Review. Special Issue: Afro-Asia. Volume 27, Number 1 (Spring) Pp. 161-172.
2007 “In Search Of Chino Latinos in Diaspora: the Cuban Chinese in New York City.” Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced. Ed. by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera. SUNY Press.
2006 “Ethnicity in Globalization: the Return of the Panama Canal, the Hong Kong Handover, and the Refashioning of Chineseness.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas. Special issue on Latin America-Asian Writing and Arts. Issue 72, Volume 39, Number 1. Pp. 45-59.
2005 “Queen of the Chinese Colony: Gender, Nation, and Belonging in Diaspora.” Anthropological Quarterly. Volume 78. Number 3. Pp. 511-542.
2005 “Citoyenneté Culturelle Diasporique: Identité Chinoise et Appartenance en Amérique Centrale et au Panama.” Les Diasporas: 2000 Ans D’histoire. Edited by Lisa Anteby-Yemini, William Berthomiére, and Gabriel Sheffer. Poitiers, France: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Pp. 433-456.
2004 “Panamá. El Ferrocarril, la tienda y el barrio.” Cuando Oriente Llegó a América. Contribuciones de inmigrantes chinos, japonese y coreanos. Banco Interamericano de Desarollo (Inter-American development Bank). Washington, D.C. Pp. 79-88.
2002 Cultural Citizenship of Diasporic Chinese in Panama.” Amerasia Journal. Special issue on Asians in the Americas. Volume 28. Number 2. Pp. 181-202. LA: UCLA Press.
2000 “Diasporic Cultural Citizenship: Chineseness and Belonging in Central America and Panama.” Social Text Journal. Special issue on Cultural Citizenship. Number 69, Winter. Pp. 7-28.
1999 Lessons From the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama. Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas. Edited by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield. Pages 49-55.
Awards & Honors
Social Sciences Book ward, Association for Asian American Studies for Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (2005).
Social Sciences Book ward, Association for Asian American Studies for Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions. Co-Edited with Rhacel Parreñas (2007).
Grants and Fellowships
2010 TACA Fellowship, UT Austin.
2009 Dean’s Fellowship, UT Austin.
2006 Co-Investigator, Curricular Development Challenge Fund. NYU.
2005 FAS Honor for Faculty Fellow-in-Residence, NYU.
2003 Goddard Fellowship, NYU.
2002-2003 Principal Investigator, Gender and Cultural Citizenship Working Group, Rockefeller Foundation Grant ($50,000).
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Comparative American Cultures, Johns Hopkins University.
2000-2002 Faculty Colloquium Grant, “Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism,” Humanities Council, New York University.
2000 Spain Across the Curriculum Grant, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University.
2000 Service Learning Course Development Grant, New York University.