Ph.D. Dissertations

• Sony Bolton, Crip Native Woman: Hispanic American Philippines and the Postcolonial Disability
• Wendy Sung, Sights of Racial Violence: New Media Technologies and Acts of Watching, Memory, and Legitimation

• Kiri Sailiata, The Samoan Cause: Colonialism, Culture and the Rule of Law

• Puspa Damai, Welcoming Strangers:  Hospitality in American Literature and Culture
• Sharon Lee, The (Geo) Politics of Beauty:  Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture
• Lani Teves, We're All Hawaiians  Now:  Kanaka Maoli Performance and the Politics of Aloha
• Lee Ann Wang, Ethnographies of Legal Inclusion:  Protection, Punishment and Legal Fictions of Asian Immigrant Women

• Brian Chung, Exceptional Visions:  Chineseness, Citizenship, and the Architectures of Community in Silicon Valley

• Jason Chang, Imperialism:  The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism in US China Relations and the Origins of the Cold War, 1898-1945

• Dean Saranillio, Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai'i Statehood.

• Jan Bernabe, Improbable Visions: Filipino Bodies, U.S. Empire and the Visual Archives.

• Robin Li, Being Good Chinese: Chinese Scholarly Elites and immigration in Mid-Century America.

• Chi-Ying Cheng, Bicultural Identities: Determinants, Processes, and Effects. (Psychology)
• Janna Kim, Sexual Socialization Among Asian Americans: A Multi-Method Examination of Cultural Influences. (Psychology)
• Belinda Kong, Species of Afterlife: Translation and Displacement in Twentieth-Century Chinese-English Contexts (Arthur Miller, Gao Xingjian, Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Ha Jin). (English)
• Grace Wang, Soundtracks of Asian America: Music, Race, and National Belonging.

• Ming-Chuan Chang, Behavioral and Sociocultural Influences on Physical Activity among Asian-American Youth. (Health Sciences)
• Wendy Cheng, Overt and Covert Narcissism in Asian Americans, European Americans, and Asians. (Psychology)
• Nhi Lieu, Private Desires on Public Display: Vietnamese American Identities in Entertainment.
• Cynthia Wu, “The Mystery of Their Union”: Cross-Cultural Legacies of the Original Siamese Twins.

• Akane Zusho, Culture, Self, and Goals: An investigation into the motivational processes of bicultural Asian-American and Anglo-American college students. (Psychology)
• Nadia Kim, Guests in Someone Else’s House? Korean Immigrants in Los Angeles Negotiate American “Race,” Nationhood, and Identity. (Sociology)

• Grace Chow, The Cultural Context of Perfectionism and Psychological Outcome: Investigating a stress-mediated model with Asian American and European American students. (Psychology)
• Evelyn Flores, Rewriting Paradise : Countering Desire, Denial, and the Exotic in American Literary Representations of the Pacific. (English)
• Anna Pegler-Gordon, In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930
• Susan Sy, Parent Involvement and Children’s Transition to School in Asian American and European American Families. (Psychology)
• Damon Williams, Ethnic Identity, Integration and Academic Outcomes: A study of African American, Asian Pacific America, and Latino/a Students. (Psychology)

• Kimberly Alidio, Between Civilizing Mission and Ethnic Assimilation: Racial Discourse, United States Colonial Education, and Filipino Ethnicity, 1901-1946. (History)
• Barbara Won Kim, Race, Space, and Identity: Examining Asian American Racial and Ethnic Formations in the Midwest. (Sociology)
• Daryl Maeda, Forging Asian American Identity.
• Bruce Randel, Achievement Values: A Comparison of Asian American and European American Adolescents. (Educational Psychology)

• Dames, Vivian, Rethinking the Circle of Belonging: American Citizenship and the Chamorros of  Guam. (English)
• Inkelas, Karen Kurotsuchi, Demystifying the Model Minority: The Influences of Identity and the College Experience on Asian Pacific American Undergraduates’ Racial Attitudes. (Sociology)
• Rapeepanchanok Thongthiraj, “To Be or Not To Be . . . Is the Question?” Race and Identity Transformations in Asian American Literature.

• Kimberly Ann Goyette, The College Attendance of Asian Americans. (Sociology)
• David Shih, Representation and Exceptionalism in the Asian American Autobiography (Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna). (English)

• Shipa Dave, Alien States: Colonial Fetishisms and Asian-American Migrations. (English)
• Reshela DuPuis, Documenting Community: Activist Videography in Hawai’i.
• Morris Young, Literacy, Legitimacy, and the Composing of Asian-American Citizenship. (English)
• Amy Kyung Wha Lee, Married Korean Women in the United States: Determinants of Employment in Comparative Perspective. (Sociology)
• LeiLani Nishime, Creating Race: Genre and the Cultural Construction of Asian-American Identity.

• Xianglei Chen, Educational Achievement of Asian-American Students: A Generational Perspective. (Sociology)
• Shi-Qui Cui, “Gender and Representation in Chinese New Cinema: A Cross-Cultural Analysis.
• Joseph D. Won, Yellowface Minstrelsy: Asian Martial Arts and the American Popular Imaginary.

• Thomas Fujita Rony, “They Did Me A Great Wrong”: History and Meanings of the Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration.

David Mitchell, Conjured Communities: The Multiperspectival Novels of Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, Julia Alvarez and Cristina Garcia.

K. Scott Wong, Encountering the Other: Chinese Immigration and Its Impact on Chinese and American Worldviews, 1875-1905. (History)

• M. Jeanne Swanson, The Impact of Acculturation Experiences on Five Southeast Asian Refugee Families in the United States: Implications for Adult Education.

• Mark Langberg, Residential Segregation and the Assimilation Process: The Case of Asian Americans in 1980. (Sociology)

• Jon Matsuoka, Vietnamese in America: An Analysis of Adaptational Patterns. (Sociology)