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Recognising the increasing importance of the transpacific as a word and concept, this anthology proposes a framework for transpacific studies that examines the flows of culture, capital, ideas, and labour across the Pacific. The introduction to the anthology considers the advantages and limitations of models found in Asian studies, American studies, and Asian American studies for dealing with these flows.
About the author
Janet Alison Hoskins (Editor) Janet Alison Hoskins is professor of anthropology and religion at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Her books include
The Divine Eye and the Diaspora: Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism (2015),
The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on History, Calendars and Exchange (1996 recipient of the Benda Prize in Southeast Asian Studies), and
Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of People's Lives(1998). She is the contributing editor of four books:
Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field (with Viet Thanh Nguyen, University of Hawai'i Press, 2014);
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia (1996);
A Space Between Oneself and Oneself: Anthropology as a Search for the Subject (1999); and
Fragments from Forests and Libraries (2001). She served as president of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion from 2011 to 2013, and has produced three ethnographic documentaries (distributed by www.DER.org), including "The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California" (2008). She has been a visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; the Anthropology Department, Oslo, Norway; the Southeast Asian Studies Center, Kyoto, Japan; and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor) Viet Thanh Nguyen is the Areol Arnold Chair of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His first novel
The Sympathizer won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as many other literary prizes. His nonfiction book
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (2016) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Award, and his collection of short stories,
The Refugees (2017), has received numerous accolades. He is a frequent contributor to
The New York Times and
The Los Angeles Times. 
