Rick Bonus

• Associate Professor, Asian American Studies and Pacific Islander American Studies

• Adjunct Associate Professor, Communication

• Affiliate Faculty in the Center for Multicultural Education

• Core Faculty in the Southeast Asia Center

• Director for Curriculum Transformation Initiatives in the College of Arts & Sciences

• Director of the Diversity Minor Program

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1997

Selected Publications

Locating Filipino Americans: Ethnicity and the Cultural Politics of Space (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2000).

Co-editor with Linda Trinh Vo, Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2002).

Teaching and Research Interests

Contemporary American Cultures, Race and Ethnicity, Communication and Cultural Studies, Asian American Studies, Filipino American Studies, and Ethnography

He is currently working on a research project focusing on the politics of higher education for underrepresented students.

Courses

AES 151: Introduction to the Social Structures and Cultures of American Ethnic Groups

AAS 360: Filipino American History and Culture

AAS 385: Asian American Law and Immigration

AES 495: Senior Thesis

AES 496: Senior Thesis II