Dr. Aaron Bae
Lecturer, Asian Pacific American Studies
School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University
Aaron Bae currently serves as a Lecturer in Asian Pacific American Studies for the School of Social Transformation on Arizona State University's Tempe campus. He previously served as a Faculty Associate for Asian Pacific American Studies and History. His current research focuses on multiracial alliances among internationalist radicals in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1960s and 1970s. More broadly, his research and teaching interests encompass historical and contemporary topics involving social and political movements and im/migration, often employing comparative and global frameworks for the United States
Dr. Karen Kuo
Associate Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies
School of Social Transformation
Arizona State University
Karen Kuo is associate professor and lead faculty of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research and publications examine the representations of Asian Americans through literature, film, and cultural theories of race, gender, and sexuality. Her book, East is West and West is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America. Temple University Press (November, 2012) examines the geopolitical imaginaries of US orientalism in film and literature during the interwar period. She is working on two forthcoming projects: an edited anthology on Taiwanese Americans, Remembering the Beautiful Island: Critically Considering Transnational Taiwanese/America; and a book exploring representations and discourses of reproduction and mental illness through Asian American women’s literary narratives.
