Faculty across UMBC along with community partners are collaborating to bring the Global Asias Initiative to fruition:
2024-2025 Advisory Board:
- Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Asian Studies Program
- Shin Yon Kim, Asian Studies Lecturer
- Ricky Blissett, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
- Kyung-Eun Yoon, Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Korean, Dept of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
- Sharon Tran, Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty in the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies
- Sameera Shukanta Nayak, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health
- Theo Gonzalves, former American Studies Chair and Professor, Curator of Asian-Pacific American History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
- Robbin Lee ’13, Visual Arts and Media and Communications Studies, Director of Partnerships and Mobilization at UpSurge Baltimore
Global Asias Faculty & Staff
Kimberly Moffitt, Global Asias Initiative Principal Investigator
Tamara Bhalla, Global Asias Initiative Co-Principal Investigator
Priya Bhayana, Global Asias Project Management Specialist
Mika Thornburg, Global Asias Post-Doctoral Fellow
Tahira Mahdi, Global Asias Program Evaluator