Lok Siu

Candidate statement

Lok Siu is Chair of the Asian American Research Center, Coordinator of the AAADS program, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. I am a cultural anthropologist with expertise in Asians in the Americas, Chinese diaspora, ethnography, migration, cultural politics of belonging, and food studies. Her publications include Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (2005) and three coedited volumes: Asian Diasporas: New Formations, New Conceptions (2007); Gendered Citizenships: Transnational Perspectives on knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture (2009); and Chinese Diaspora: Its Development in Global Perspective (2021). My articles appear in various book anthologies and journals, including Anthropological Quarterly, Amerasia, the Journal for Asian American Studies, and Social Text. My book, Worlding Chino Latino: Cultural Intimacies in Food, Art, and Politics, is forthcoming with Duke University Press, and I am currently editing a special issue in the Journal for the Study of Chinese Overseas. As a public scholar, I have appeared in various media outlets, including CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CBS, WNYC, and VOX. I look forward to bringing my scholarly and administrative expertise to support the work of AAAS.