Faculty Profiles

 

Lok Siu

Associate Professor, Anthropology, Social and Cultural Analysis (Asia/Pacific/American Studies)
Ph.D. 2000, Stanford; B.A. 1992, University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests include Migration, diaspora, transnationalism, cultural citizenship, race and gender, Chinese diaspora, Central America and Panama, Asians in the Americas.

I am currently working on a book manuscript, "Memories of a Future Home: Geopolitics and Diasporic Chinese in Panama."

Publications
"Lessons from the Field: Being Chinese American in Panama." Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, edited by Roshni Rustomji- Kerns. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield. 1999.

"Living at the Intersection of Nations: Chinese Diaspora in Panama in the 1940s." Asian Migrations to the Americas, edited by Glenroy Taitt. St. Augustine, Trinidad: University of West Indies Press. Forthcoming.