American Studies and Ethnicity

2020 Graduate Student Symposium With Keynote Speaker Dr. Padoongpatt

In Conversation With ASE Graduate Students:

Huan He(Moderator), Teraya Paramehta, Avvirin Gray and Cathleen Calderon

MARK PADOONGPATT is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  He received his Ph.D. in American Studies & Ethnicity at USC in 2011.  His resesarch is on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the twentieth-century United States, with a focus on empire, migration, race, and urban and suburban cultures.  His first book, Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America (University of California Press, 2017), explores how and why Thai food shapted the contours of Thai American community and identity since World War II.  The book stands as the first historial examination of Thai Americans.

Padoongpatt is current at work on a book on the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Las Vegas

Moderated By Dr. Sarah Gualtieri

Co-sponsored by USC Department of History, Department of Sociology, the Center for Visual Anthropology, the Center for Transpacific Studies, and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Intergration