Kornel Chang

Assistant Professor

Office: Wood Hall 314
Phone: (860) 486-4597
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email: kornel.chang@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

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

Current Research Interests

Transpacific Borderlands and Boundaries

Biography

Kornel Chang received his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 2007. 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, 2000).