Kornel S. Chang
Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies
Wood Hall
860 486. 4597
Kornel.Chang@uconn.edu
Kornel Chang is Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies. Professor Chang received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2007. His research and teaching interests include Modern U.S. History; Immigration (Asian American and Comparative); Race and Ethnicity; Migration and Transnationalism; Borderlands and Boundaries; and U.S. and the Pacific World.
His current project
is history of the U.S.-Canadian borderlands in the
Pacific World, examining the region's evolving connections to Asia and
the South
Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Selected Publications:
"Transpacific
Crossings and Borders: Asian Migration and the Formation of
the U.S.-Canadian boundary." American Quarterly. Forthcoming 2008.
"Impact of the
Great Depression on Asian Americans." The Encyclopedia of
the Great Depression, ed. Robert S. McElvaine (New York: MacMillan
Publishers, 2004).