People Directory

Name Job title Department Role Research interests
Frederick "Rickey" Vincent Lecturer African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley Alumni
Tria Blu Wakpa Assistant Professor World Arts and Cultures/Dance Department at UCLA Alumni
Ling-Chi Wang Professor Emeritus Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Emeriti

Chinese Diaspora, Chinese Poetry, Language Rights
Oliver Wang Associate Professor Sociology Department Department at CSU Long Beach Alumni
Kathleen Whiteley Ethnic Studies Faculty

Prof. Whiteley’s research focuses on Native American history in California from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the social, legal, and gendered dimensions of Indigenous North America.

Selected publications and projects:...
Jonelle Whitting Director of Adminstration Staff
Sarah Whitt Alumni
Sau-Ling Wong Professor Emeritus Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Emeriti

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies and mobility, Anglophone and Sinophone Chinese American literatures, Asian American literature: transnationality, Canon formation, Gender and sexuality, globalization, Immigrant writing and film, The Chinese diaspora, Transnational reception studies
Shelly Sunn Wong Associate Professor English Department at Cornell Univeristy Alumni
Daniel Woo Alumni
Matthew Wray Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair Liberal Arts Department at Temple University Alumni
Latonya Wright Graduate Advisor Staff
Derek Wu Student

Religion, Race, Urban Development
Victor Xie Student
Ida Yalzadeh Assistant Professor Ethnic Studies, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Faculty

I am currently at work on a book project that focuses on the racialized experience of Iranian foreign nationals from 1953 to 2001. Bridging diplomatic history and Asian American Studies, it makes the case for understanding racial projects as transnational, imperial processes with lingering...
Kathleen Yep Professor Asian American Studies Department Alumni
Jonathan Yorba President and CEO Department at The Community Foundation Alumni
Hershini Bhana Young Associate Professor English Department at SUNY Buffalo Alumni
Byungsun Yu Alumni
Cati D. ve los Ríos Assistant Professor of Literacy Reading, and Bi/Multilingual Education at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education Affiliated Faculty