AAST Welcomed Five Affiliate Faculty into the Program
Since our last announcement in 2022, AAST welcomed five new affiliate faculty into the program! We look forward to their contributions and collaborations.
Michelle Magalong
Assistant Professor, Historic Preservation
Michelle G. Magalong, PhD is a scholar-activist committed to elevating the stories of underrepresented peoples and places through historic preservation, planning, and public policy.
Dr. Magalong is Assistant Professor in the Historic Preservation program at the University of Maryland's School of Architecture. Planning and Preservation, where she previously served as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow. She is affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies, Urban Studies and Planning, and American Studies. Dr. Magalong served as President for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP), a national nonprofit organization. She received her BA in Ethnic Studies and Urban Studies and Planning at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and MA and PhD in Urban Planning at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Madeline Hsu
Professor, History & Director, Center for Global Migration Studies
Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history at UMD College Park where she is director of the Center for Global Migration Studies and Affiliate Faculty with the Asian American Studies Program. She was born in Columbia, MO but grew up in Taiwan and Hong Kong between visits with her maternal grandparents at their store in Altheimer, AK. She received her undergraduate degree in History from Pomona College and MA and PhD from Yale University.
Angew Boge
Assistant Professor, Communication
Dr. Andrew Parayil Boge is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Media, & Culture in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa, with graduate certificates in the Public Digital Humanities and African American Studies. His interdisciplinary scholarship examines how racial ideologies are produced, maintained, and disrupted in public discourse. Informed by scholars of color in digital media and rhetorical studies, and intersectional race and ethnic studies, his work reckons with the real, situated violence of racism and the agential force of racialized peoples to disrupt such violence via discursive worldbuilding. Dr. Parayil Boge’s primary research project examines South Asian American racialization by theorizing the cultural and transnational logics of (anti-)brownness across racial projects. His scholarship can be found in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, Ethnic Studies Review, and Rhetoric Review.
Sehrish Shikarpurya
Assistant Professor, Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education
Sehrish Shikarpurya (She/Her) is an Assistant Professor of Special Education in the Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research takes a critical and comprehensive approach to understanding the multifaceted impact of intersectional and marginalized identities, such as race and disability, on the postsecondary transition outcomes of racially minoritized young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Chris Eng
Assistant Professor, English
Chris A. Eng is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research is primarily situated at the intersections of Asian American cultural studies and queer of color critique. His writings and teaching engage the fields of critical ethnic studies, performance studies, and post45 literatures alongside theorizations of affect, diaspora, and empire. At UMD, he has recently taught an undergraduate course on “Queer Youth” and the graduate course “Critical Ethnic Literary Studies.”