Dr. Anne S. Chao

Co-founder, Program Manager

Dr. Anne Chao received her M. A. and Ph.D. from Rice’s Department of History (2005 and 2009), under the direction of Prof. Richard J. Smith. Her research interests include using computational techniques to do network analysis, text-mining, and archival research on historical figures in the late Qing, early Republican China, as well as in the immigration history of Asian Americans to the south.

The Houston Asian American Archive was founded by Dr. Anne Chao in 2009. Aside, Dr. Chao has also taught courses and mentored students in the Program in Poverty, Justice and Human Capabilities, and in the Department of History.  

Dr. Chao is a College Associate and a Divisional Advisor to undeclared humanities students at Lovett College. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, the Chao Center for Asian Studies, the Kinder Institute, the Shepherd School of Music, and a member of the Patron Group of the Moody Center for the Arts. 

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Amanda Focke

Archivist, Houston Asian American Archive

Head of Special Collections, Woodson Research Center at Fondren Library

https://library.rice.edu/people/amanda-focke

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Ann Shi

Curatorial Consultant

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Katherine Shen

Volunteer and Friend of the Archive

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Our students are at the center of this Archive:

Senior Lead Interns

Kevin Chen, Senior ('24), Biosciences and Visual and Dramatic Arts

Emily Ma, Senior ('24), Biology and English 

Lead Intern

Hannah Son, Junior ('25), English and Sociology

Assistant Lead Intern

Ian Kim, Sophomore ('26), History and Economics

Interns

Rita Ajit, Junior ('25), English and Social Policy Analysis

Teresa Chin, Sophomore ('26)

Daniel Cho, Graduate student

Sophia Govea

Misha Gupta

Muyao Huang, Junior ('25), MathEcon and Social Policy Analysis

Caroline Huynh, Sophomore ('26), Biosciences

Karis Lai

Gina Matos, Senior ('24), English and Asian Studies

Karina Pan

Grace Park, Sophomore ('26), Neuroscience

Advika Rajeev, Sophomore ('26), Computer Science

Karen Siu, Fifth-year graduate student, English

Jessica Suh

Kihan Sung, Senior ('24), Biosciences

Muriel Taylor-Adair

Ruchi Tiwari, Sophomore ('26), MathEcon and Social Policy Analysis

Jocelyn Wang, Sophomore ('26), Political Science and Economics

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Past contributors:

Professor Tani Barlow, who helped conceive the project

Patricia Wong ('16), former intern

Priscilla Li ('20), former intern

Helen Pu ('22), former intern

Sarah Kong ('23), former intern