Faculty

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California, Riverside

Interests: Labor, Transnational corporations, Student Success, Diversity in Higher Education, Asian/Asian Americans

Email: jenbanh@csufresno.edu 

Publications
Banh, Jenny and Melissa King. (2017). Anthropology of Los Angeles: Places and Agency in an Urban Setting. Lanham: Lexington Books.

Banh, Jenny and Haiming Liu. (2020). American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Banh, Jenny. “I Have an Accent in Every Language I Speak!”: Shadow History of One Chinese Family’s Multigenerational Transnational Migrations. Genealogy 2019, 3, 36." Genealogy (Basel) 4, no. 96 (2020): 96.

Ph.D. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego
M.A.  Asian American Studies, San Francisco State University
B.A.  Political Science, San Jose State University

Interests: US militarism, war and global security, global political economy, waste and environment, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asians and Asian American Studies

Email: davorn@csufresno.edu 

Publications
Sisavath, Davorn. "The US Secret War in Laos." Radical History Review 2019, no. 133 (2019): 103-16.

Sisavath, Davorn. "The Construction of Race and Space in Thomas Dooley’s Writings: 'What Kind of Place Was Laos?'" Journal of Transnational American Studies 10, no. 2 (2019): 207-236.

Sisavath, Davorn. "Bomb Children: Life in the Former Battlefields of Laos by Leah Zani (review)." Anthropological Quarterly 93, no. 3 (2020): 541-45.

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, CSU Fresno
M.A. Public Policy, Duke University
B.A. Psychology, University of California, San Diego

Gena Gong has a wealth of nonprofit experience, holding staff leadership roles at A New Way of Life Reentry Project, Community Partners, Asian Pacific Community Fund, and Leadership Education for Asian Pacific (LEAP).

Email: ggong@csufresno.edu 

Publications
Dissertation: "Asian Americans at a Western University: An Institutional Analysis." Order No. 28026848, California State University, Fresno, 2020. 

Research Brief: "The Academic Challenges of Southeast Asians at Fresno State." California Commission on APIA Affairs.

M.A. Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Interests: Racial and ethnic history, immigration, Asian American Studies

Email: svang@csufresno.edu | Phone: 559-473-3884

Franklin Ng is a professor emeritus of anthropology and Asian American Studies. He is the editor of the Asian American Encyclopedia (1995), author of Taiwanese Americans (1998), and the coauthor of Asian American Issues (2004). He is also the editor of the Routledge series, Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, and Politics. From 2004 to 2006, he served as president of the Association of Asian American Studies. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Amerasia Journal, The Journal of American Ethnic History, and Chinese America: History and Perspectives, and was the former editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations.