Janelle Wong

Janelle Wong is a Professor in the Departments of American Studies and Government and Politics at the University of Maryland. Wong’s research is on race, immigration, and political mobilization. As a scholar and teacher, Wong has worked closely with social service, labor, civil rights, and media organizations that serve the Asian American population.

Wong is author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change, Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions, and co-author of two books on Asian American politics, including Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities, based on the first nationally representative survey of Asian Americans’ political attitudes and behavior. This study of Asian Americans was conducted in eight different languages with six different Asian national origin groups.

Wong has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, Irvine Foundation, and Carnegie Foundation.

Wong received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at Yale University. 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.