Advisory Board, Staff & Faculty

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