Lok Siu
Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
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Lok C. D. Siu
Education
2000 Ph.D. Anthropology, Stanford University
1995 M.A. Anthropology, Stanford University
1993 B.A. Anthropology Major/Ethnic Studies Minor, University of California, Berkeley
Academic and Teaching Appointments
2022-Pres. Professor, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
2021-Pres. Chair, Asian American Research Center, ISSI, UC Berkeley
2022-Pres. Program Coordinator, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UCB
2012-2022 Associate Professor, Dept. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
2009-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UT Austin
2008-2009 Director, Asian/Pacific/American Studies, Dept. of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
2006-2009 Associate Professor, Depts. of Anthropology and Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU
2001-2002 Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative American Cultures, Johns Hopkins University
2000-2006 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology and Asian/Pacific/American Studies,
NYU
Academic Awards
2023 Berkeley Faculty Service Award, UCB. April 2023.
2022 Faculty Mentor Award, UCB. April 2022.
2009 Social Sciences Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions co-edited with Rhacel Parreñas (Stanford UP 2007).
2007 Social Sciences Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies, Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford UP 2005).
Publications - Books (selected)
In Progress Worlding LatinAsian: Cultural Intimacies in Food, Art, and Politics. Under contract with Duke University Press.
2020 Chinese Diaspora: Its Development in Global Perspective, co-edited with Khachig Tölölyan, Toronto, Canada: Zoryan Institute Press.
2009 Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture, co-edited with Kia Caldwell, Kathleen Coll, Tracy Fisher, and Renya Ramirez. Palgrave MacMillan Publishers. [equal contribution]
2007 Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions, co-edited with Rhacel Parreñas. Stanford University Press. [equal contribution].
2005 Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Selected Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters (2013-2023)
In Progress Invited Contributor to Migrations Ethnicity, and Diversity, edited by Takeyuki Tsuda. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Forthcoming “Chifas: How Chinese Food Became a Peruvian National Treasure,” Modern Chinese Foodways, edited by Jia-Chen Fu, Michelle King, and Jacob Klein. MIT
Press.
2023 “Yellow Peril: A Weapon of Containment in the US-China Struggle,” China Threat: Fact or Fake? Edited by Gerd Kaminsky, Hannes Fellner, and Wang Xigen. Schiedlberg, Austria: BACOPA.
2020 Lead co-author, “Yellow Peril and Techno-Orientalism in the Time of Covid-19:Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare.” Journal of Asian American Studies, Volume 23, Number 3, October.
2020 “Introduction: Chinese Diaspora: Migration, Identity, Belonging” in Chinese Diaspora: Its Development in Global Perspective. Toronto, Canada: Zoryan Institute. [Reviewed by Editorial Board.]
2018 Co-author, “Comparative Raciality: Erasure and Hypervisibility of Asian and Afro Mexicans.” Global Raciality. Co-edited by Paola Bacchetta and Sunaina Maira. Routledge Press.
2018 “Diasporic Affect: Circulating Art, Producing Relationality.” In Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, edited by Alexandra Chang. Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press.
2016 Invited Contributor, “Hemispheric Raciality: Yellowface and the Challenge of Transnational Critique.” Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. 2 (2016) 163-179.
2013 “21st Century Food Trucks: Mobility, Social Media, and Urban Hipness.” Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader, edited by Robert Ko, Martin Manalansan, and Anita Mannur. NYU Press.
2013 “The Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Nationalism, En-Gendering Diaspora.” [2005] In The Anthropology of Citizenship: A Reader. Edited by Sian
Lazar. Wiley-Blackwell Press.
What is Asian German Studies? : A Transatlantic Conversation on Social Movements and Field Formatio
This panel examines the formation of Asian German subjectivities and invites a transnational dialogue with Asian Americanists on how to engage in comparative and relational analyses of Asian diasporization and racialization. Each paper takes up a pivotal moment that has shaped how specific Asian German communities come to understand their social-political position in Germany, including the Korean migrants who fought against discrimination in the 1960s, the two landmark cases of anti-Vietnamese violence that sparked a struggle for inclusive memory politics, and the global expansion of social media that has facilitated transnational communication, networking, and shared spaces for cultural representation, knowledge production, and community building.
Bringing these examples to bear, the panel seeks to expand the scope of Asian Diaspora Studies to include Europe. Keenly aware of the intellectual hazards of engaging with US-centered approaches, we are, on the one hand, inspired by the development of AAAS and the Asian American Movement that helped found this field, and, on the other, critical of the hegemonic potential for US scholars to dominate and usurp our work. With excitement and trepidation, we enter this discussion with the hope of exploring and developing a common ground on how to study geographically dispersed Asian Diasporas and their multilayered and dynamic relationships within a transnational context. Cultivating a transatlantic exchange among scholars who work in the emerging field of Asian German Studies and who are situated at different sides of the big pond or West lake, if you prefer, we offer an opportunity for critical, trans-regional, and interdisciplinary engagement.
Asian American Activism: The Struggle to Bring Community College to San Francisco’s Chinatown
The panel, which includes a screening of a 30 minute film and three presentations, will explore how an ethnic community sustained a 28-year struggle (1980-2008) to bring a community college campus to San Francisco’s historic Chinatown. The struggle went through many phases and touched on a number of issues, including land-use, city planning, political representation, and educational access. The film and the presentations address the many obstacles laid out by San Francisco big money and political power brokers as they waged a public relations war to stop the construction of a community college campus in Chinatown. They also show an equally powerful response from a broad and diverse coalition, Friends of Educational Opportunities in Chinatown (FEOC), that organized rallies, waged a campaign using radio/TV/newsprint and petitions, and rallied support from educators, students, non-profits, labor unions, churches, and family associations. All these forces collided in a climatic vote that resulted in the successful approval of the project. The community college facility, which opened in 2012, serves as a testament to the perseverance and resilience of a local community’s fight against the powerful and provides many lessons for students, community members, advocates, and community organizers today.
Lok Siu
Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
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