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Kyoung-yim Kim received a PhD in 2012 at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her main area of research is in the sociology of sport, with a special focus on postcolonial intersectionalities of race, gender, nation, and environmental sustainability in sport mega-events.

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Oh Myo Kim, M.Div, Ph.D. studies adoption, the family dynamics in transracial families, and identity development in adopted adults as well as cultural socialization, racial and ethnic identity, and social oppression. More recently, Dr. Kim's research is focusing on pregnancy and motherhood for adopted individuals.

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Arissa Oh's current project examines the history of marriage migration and immigration fraud since the late 19th century. Her research and teaching interests include immigration, race, gender, and family in U.S. history, and transnational Asian-American history.

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Alex Puente specializes in Asian and Asian American literature, particularly in Philippine literature in English and Filipino American literature. His other interests include U.S. multi-ethnic literature, late 19th century American literature, postcolonialism, creative nonfiction, and graphic narratives.

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Min Hyoung Song is the Chair of the English Department and the former director of the Asian American Studies Program. His most recent book is Climate Lyricism, which won the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) Ecocritical Book Prize and has been short-listed for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Brook Prize. 

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Wan Sonya Tang is a scholar of 19th-21st-century Spanish cultural production. Her book Specters, Monsters, and the Damned: Fantastic Threats to the Social Order in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Fiction examines how familiar Gothic tropes function within open-ended fantastic storytelling to explore fraught questions of class, gender, and race in a way that the dominant realist narrative could not. 

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Tony Tran's teaching and research interests include global and transnational communication, Vietnamese diasporic cultures and identities (specifically Vietnamese Canadians in Vancouver), and digital technologies. 

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