Janelle Wong received her PhD from the Dep artment of Political Science at Yale University. She is Professor of Ameri can Studies at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the University of Maryland in 2012\, she was at the University of Southern California in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity. Wong is author of Immigrants\, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demo graphic Change (2018\, Russell Sage Foundation Press)\, Democracy&rsquo\;s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006\, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics. Th e most recent is Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constitu ents and their Political Identities (2011\, Russell Sage Foundation)\, bas ed on the first nationally representative survey of Asian Americans&rsquo\ ; political attitudes and behavior. This groundbreaking study of Asian Ame ricans was conducted in eight different languages with six different Asian national origin groups. Wong has received research funding from the Natio nal Science Foundation\, Russell Sage Foundation\, Irvine Foundation\, and Carnegie Foundation. She was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, Washington\, DC\, in 2006-2007.
\nWong&rsquo\ ;s research is on race\, immigration\, and political mobilization. As a sc holar and teacher\, Wong has worked closely with social service\, labor\, civil rights\, and media organizations that serve the Asian American popul ation.
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