Timothy Fong

Timothy P. Fong Is Professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Sacramento. He is also the Project Director and Principal Investigator for the Full Circle Project (FCP) a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Timothy has written and edited several books including The Contemporary Asian American Experience: Beyond the Model Minority (1998, 2002, 2008, and forthcoming), and Ethnic Studies Research: Approaches and Perspectives (2008). He was the editor of the Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans Series published by AltaMira Press. Timothy received his doctorate in Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. His research specialty areas include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration history, politics and public policy, community studies, higher education equity and student engagement, and qualitative methodology (ethnography and oral history)..