TALK: Lok Siu

Asian American Studies Graduate Student Group (ASAGSG) and the Asian American Studies Program Presents:

Lok D. Siu, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific American Studies at NYU

“Asian American Studies: Toward a Hemispheric Approach”

Place:         126 Voorhies
Date:         Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Time:          4:00-6:00pm

About Lok D. Siu:
Dr. Siu is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific/American Studies at NYU, and currently the Director of Events for the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. She is the author of numerous publications. Her book, Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford University Press, 2005), is the winner of the 2005 Book Award in Social Sciences from the Association of Asian American Studies. Currently, she is co-editing Asian Diasporas (forthcoming with Stanford U Press) with Dr. Parreñas and is working on another volume, Gender and Cultural Citizenship. Her research focuses on migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, Central America and Panama, and Asians in the Americas.

Sponsors: Anthropology Dept., ASAGSG, Asian American Studies 
Contact Jeannie Woo at jeawoo@ucdavis.edu for additional information on the talk.