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Dr. Calvin Cheung-Miaw (He/Him)
Assistant Professor of History, Duke University
"I'm an historian of race who works at the intersection of intellectual history and social movement history. My current book project, Asian Americans and the Color-Line, uses the history of Asian American Studies to explore the rise and fall of Third Worldism within the United States. I'm also at work on a project on radical Asian American activism. A piece of this project, on transnational political murders, has been published as an article in Pacific Historical Review."
-Dr. Cheung-Miaw's bio on Scholars@Duke
Dr. Anna Storti (She/Her)
​Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies
"Anna M. Moncada Storti is a writer and teacher of feminist theory, queer of color critique, and Asian American Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar, Storti explores the aesthetic and affective relations between race, empire, violence, and pleasure, specializing in art and culture across the Asian diaspora.
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Born and raised in Anaheim, CA, in a family of Filipina and Italian immigrants, she was educated at Cal Poly Pomona where she was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Entering college as a Civil Engineering major, she graduated with degrees in Gender, Ethnicity, and Multicultural Studies and Business Management. Prior to joining Duke, she was the Guarini Dean's Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College, and she holds a PhD in Women's Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park."
- Dr. Storti's bio from Scholars@Duke
Dr. Esther Kim Lee (She/Her)
Professor of Theater Studies, Director of Asian American and Diaspora Studies Program
"Dr. Esther Kim Lee is Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparative Studies, and History and the Director of Asian American & Diaspora Studies at Duke University.
Dr. Lee teaches and writes about theatre history, Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, and globalization and theatre.
Dr. Lee received her Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism, and Literature at The Ohio State University in 2000 and taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2000 to 2012 and at the University of Maryland from 2013 to 2018."
- Dr. Lee's bio on her personal website
Dr. Susan Thananopavarn (She/Her)
​Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program
"I am interested in contemporary American literature, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies. My book, LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (Rutgers UP, 2018), examines how Asian American and Latina/o literary texts can rewrite dominant narratives of U.S. history. I teach Writing 101 courses in Asian American studies; “ethnofuturism,” or alternative speculative fiction by writers of color; and exploring human connection in the digital age. Beginning in 2023, I will also teach a course in Asian American literature for Duke's program in Asian American and Diaspora Studies."
- Dr. Thananopavarn's bio on Scholars@Duke
