Andrew Aoki, Augsburg College
Council 2004-06

Andrew L. Aoki is associate professor and chair of the political science department, and also a member of the urban studies program at Augsburg College (Minneapolis). He received his B.A. from the University of Oregon, and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

His current research focuses on the politics of immigration. He is working with three colleagues on a manuscript which examines the ways that the new immigration is transforming American racial politics, and also on an Asian American politics textbook. He has published works on Asian American politics, immigration, and multiculturalism, and is a co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics.

He is currently co-president of the APSA organized section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP), and has served as the REP co-program chair, and on the REP best book committee. He was a co-founder and one of the initial co-chairs of the Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC), an APSA related group, and is currently the APAC electronic discussion list moderator. He is also currently a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Asian Pacific Americans in the Profession.

As a council member, his interests would include seeing that APSA continues its efforts to respond to the full range of its diverse membership, including faculty at small teaching schools, who often seem to exist on the margins of APSA.