UCLA: 3 New Professors Join UCLA Asian American Studies Center Faculty Advisory Committee

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very pleased to announce the appointment of three new professors at UCLA, who have joined the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Asian American Studies Center. Their teaching, research, and professional activities are in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, psychological effects of prejudice and discrimination, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in health and diet.

The new UCLA professors further enhance the multi-disciplinary composition of the forty-five member Faculty Advisory Committee of the Asian American Studies Center, who are affiliated with over twenty-five departments at UCLA, including the Department of Asian American Studies. The three new professors are as follows:

(1) Professor Hiroshi Motomura -- Professor, School of Law. One of the nation's most influential scholars and teachers of immigration and citizenship law.  He is a co-author of two immigration-related casebooks: Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (now in its sixth edition), and Forced Migration: Law and Policy, published in 2007.  His book, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States, published in 2006 by Oxford University Press, won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year's best book in Law and Legal Studies.  In addition, Professor Motomura has published many significant articles and essays on immigration and citizenship.  He has testified as an immigration expert in the U.S. Congress, has served as co-counsel or a volunteer consultant in several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts, has been a member of the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration, and is one of the co-founders of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN).  Originally from San Francisco, Professor Motomura received his BA from Yale and JD from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School. He was a professor at U Colorado at Boulder for over twenty years and at U North Carolina, Chapel Hill for the past five years before joining the  UCLA Law School faculty this year.

(2) Professor Margaret Shih -- Associate Professor, Anderson School of Management. Her research focuses on the effects of diversity in organizations, especially social identity and the psychological effects of stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination and stigma in organizations. She serves on the executive committee for the International Society for Self and Identity and is a consulting editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Professor Shih was also an editor for the special issue of the Journal of Social Issues. Originally from Vancouver, she received her BA from Stanford and her PhD in  Social Psychology from Harvard. Professor Shih spent eight years on the faculty at U of Michigan at Ann Arbor (and also worked at the Rand Corporation) before joining the UCLA Anderson School faculty this year.

(3) Professor May Wang -- Associate Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, School of Public Health. Her research Interests include neighborhood and family environmental influences on diet-related conditions and obesity and osteoporosis risk; socioeconomic disparities in nutrition and health; diet assessment methods for ethnically diverse populations; and diet and health in immigrant Asian and Latino populations. She received her undergraduate education in Singapore, a Master's degree in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, and a MPH/RD and a DrPH degree (Public Health Nutrition) from UC Berkeley. Professor Wang was on the faculty at San Jose State University and most recently at UC Berkeley prior to coming to UCLA's School of Public Health this year.