Nayan Shah
- Professor American Studies and Ethnicity
- Professor of History
- USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Expertise
- Hunger strikes
- Immigrant and refugee detention
- Public health, race, gender and sexuality
- LGBT history and politics
- Asian American immigration, history and politics
- Law and human rights
- South Asian immigrants
- California and inequality
- Asian diaspora art and installation
Additional Information
Media experience with radio, TV and documentary films:
- Radio show interview and discussion, Odyssey program, Chicago Public Radio, NPR Nationwide network, on the theme of “Hygiene, Culture and History,” September 29, 2003
- Radio show interview “SARS: The History of Asian Health Panics,” Asia Pacific Forum, WBAI, April 29, 2003
- Documentary interview, “Rats, Bats and Bugs,” History Channel, aired October 2003
- Interview subject for Dirty Laundry , Richard Fung, director, (Canada, 30 minutes, 1996 video distributed by Video Databank, NAATA and V-Tape)