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New Faces in the College
New Faculty
Justin Wu
Asian Studies
Dr. Justin Wu joins the Asian Studies
Program as an Assistant Professor. He
completed his B.S. in Psychology and
History at the University of WisconsinMadison, and he earned his M.A. and
Ph.D. in Asian History at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies
modern East Asian history, with an
emphasis on Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan,
and China. He is particularly interested
in nationalism, identity formation,
social movement, pan-Asianism, (anti-)
colonialism, and global connections. He
is also a devout football (soccer) fan and a
lifelong supporter of AC Milan.
Giselle Cunanan
Ethnic Studies
Dr. Giselle Dejamco Cunanan joins
the Asian American Studies program
in the Department of Ethnic Studies
as an Assistant Professor. She earned
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a doctorate in American Studies with
a minor in Sociology from Indiana
University Bloomington. Her research
documents the racial labor of student
activism and examines organizers’
struggles to institutionalize ethnic studies.
Giselle earned a master’s degree in
Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State
University where she also taught for
Pin@y Educational Partnerships, a servicelearning organization that develops and
trains teachers in ethnic studies critical
pedagogy. Her broader research interests
examine the afterlives of empire as it
relates to U.S.-based Filipinxs.
Rachel Lim
Ethnic Studies
Dr. Rachel Lim joins the Asian American
Studies program in the Department of
Ethnic Studies as an Assistant Professor.
Her research engages Asian/American and
Latina/o/x migration from a transnational
framework, with an emphasis on diaspora,
citizenship, gender, and comparative
race and ethnicity. She received her Ph.D.
in Ethnic Studies from the University of
California, Berkeley and has written for
multiple scholarly and popular venues,
including The Journal of Asian American
Studies, Oxford Bibliographies, Verge:
Studies in Global Asias, and The Washington
Post. Her current book project, Itinerant
Belonging: Korean Transnational Migration
to and from Mexico, examines the serial
migrations of Koreans in the Américas.
Jasmine Wade
Ethnic Studies
Dr. Jasmine Wade joins the Pan African
Studies program in the Department of
Ethnic Studies as an Assistant Professor.
She earned her doctorate from UC Davis
in Cultural Studies. Jasmine’s research
examines lessons from Black and
Indigenous science fiction and fantasy
and the different ways we can think about
those lessons and the struggles of Black
and Indigenous communities as different
but connected. She’s working on a book
that connects Black and Indigenous
science fiction and fantasy to the
manifestos of social movements. Jasmine
is excited to teach classes on Black lives
around the world, Black feminism, and
Black film and literature.
Ciobha McKeown
Psychology
Dr. Ciobha McKeown joins the Psychology
Department as an Assistant Professor
with a specialty in Behavior Analysis.
Prior to joining Sacramento State, Ciobha
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