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Janelle Wong, PhD

Director, Asian American Studies
Professor, American Studies and Government and Politics

janellew@umd.edu

 

Bio

Janelle Wong received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. She is Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2012, she was at the University of Southern California in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity. Wong is author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018, Russell Sage Foundation Press), Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics. The most recent is Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities (2011, Russell Sage Foundation), based on the first nationally representative survey of Asian Americans’ political attitudes and behavior. This groundbreaking study of Asian Americans was conducted in eight different languages with six different Asian national origin groups. Wong has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Irvine Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation. She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, in 2006-2007.

Wong’s research is on race, immigration, and political mobilization. As a scholar and teacher, Wong has worked closely with social service, labor, civil rights, and media organizations that serve the Asian American population.

Read through Janelle Wong’s CV here.

Education

B.A. University of California, Los Angeles (1995)
PhD Yale University (2001)

Research and Publications

BOOKS

Wong, Janelle. 2018. Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Wong, Janelle, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Taeku Lee, and Jane Junn. 2011. Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities. New York: Russell Sage.

Wong, Janelle. 2006. Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Lien, Pei-te, M. Margaret Conway, and Janelle Wong. 2004. The Politics of Asian America: Diversity and Community. New York; Routledge.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (Since 2009)

Wong, J. and R. Zamora Liu. "Between Empirical Data and Anti-Blackness: A Critical Perspective on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes and Hate Incidents" Journal of Asian American Studies. (Accepted July 2022)

St. Sume, J. (graduate student), Wong, J. (2022) The Role of Race in the Political Attitudes of the Non-Religious. Advances in Political Psychology. (preprint - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12849)

Carter, N., Wong, J., Gallarzo Guerrero, L. (2021). Reconsidering Group Interests:  Why Americans Exhibit More Progressive Attitudes Toward Immigration than Asian Americans. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 1-18.

Wong, J., Shah, S. (2021). Convergence Across Difference: Understanding the Political Ties That Bind with the 2016 National Asian American Survey. RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 7(2), 70--92.

Aoki, A., Wong, J. (2021). Introduction: Reflections on Asian American Politics on the 20th Anniversary of the Asian Pacific American Caucus. PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(2), 221-225.

Nguyen, M. H., Lee, D. H., Garces, L. M., Poon, O. A., Wong, J. (2021). Mobilizing Social Science Research to Inform Judicial Decision-Making: SFFA v. Harvard. Asian American Law Journal at Berkeley Law, 28, 4-14. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/aslj28&i=49

Shah, S., Wong, J. (2020). Asian American Attitudes toward Undocumented Immigrants and Immigration Policies. CUNY Forum, 7(1), 7-24.

Wong, J. (2019). Race, Evangelicals and Immigration. The Forum – A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, 17(3), 403-419.

Wong, Janelle. 2018. “The Evangelical Vote and Race in the 2016 Presidential Election.” The Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, 1-26. doi:10.1017/rep.2017.32

Barreto, Matt A., Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, Edward D. Vargas and Janelle Wong. 2018. “Best practices in collecting online data with Asian, Black, Latino, and White respondents: evidence from the 2016 Collaborative Multiracial Post-election Survey,”Politics, Groups, and Identities, 6:1, 171-180, DOI: 10.1080/21565503.2017.1419433.

Strolovitch, D. Z., Wong, J. S., & Proctor, A. 2017. A possessive investment in white heteropatriarchy? The 2016 election and the politics of race, gender, and sexuality. Politics, Groups, and Identities, 5(2), 353–363.

Wong, Janelle. 2015. The Role of Born-Again Identity on the Political Attitudes of White, Blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans. Politics and Religion. 8(4): 641-658 Wong, Janelle. 2015. “Politics” In Linda Vo and Cathy Schlund-Vials (eds.), Key Words for Asian American Studies. New York: NYU Press. 189-195.

Iwamura, Jane, Khyati Joshi, Sharon Suh, and Janelle Wong. 2014. “Reflections on the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life’s Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths Data and Report,” Amerasia Journal. 40(1): 1-16.

Wong, Janelle. 2013. “Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born versus Native-Born Distinction.” In Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones Correa (eds.), Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bedolla, Lisa García, Katherine Tate, and Janelle Wong. 2013 “Indelible Effects: The Impact of Women of Color in the U.S. Congress.” In Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox (eds.) Women and Elective Office Past, Present and Future (3rd Edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Junn, Jane, Taeku Lee, Karthick Ramakrishnan and Janelle Wong. 2011. “Asian American Public Opinion.” In Robert Shapiro (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ramakrishnan, Karthick, Jane Junn, Taeku Lee and Janelle Wong. 2011. “Bringing Asian American Voices to Policy Debates: Findings from the 2008 National Asian American Survey.” AAPI Nexus: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy Practice and Community. 9 (1&2): 11-21.

Ramarkrishnan, Karthick, Janelle Wong, Jane Junn and Taeku Lee. 2009. “Race-based considerations and the Obama Vote.” DuBois Review. 6:219-238

Lien, Pei-te and Janelle Wong. 2009. “Like Latinos? Explaining the Transnational Political Behavior of Asian Americans.” In Pei-te Lien and Christian Collet (eds.), Transnational Politics of Asian Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Wong, Janelle and Vivian Tseng. 2007. “Political Socialisation within Immigrant Families: Challenging Parental Socialisation Models.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 34(1): 151- 168.

Courses

  • AAST200 Introduction to Asian American Studies

  • AAST388 Asian American Studies Experiential Learning

  • AAST443 Asian American Politics

  • AAST498V Asian American Religions and Spirituality