Author: Kent A. Ono
Title: Professor
Born: 2/18/64
Dates: 11/23/08
Bio: Kent A. Ono (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1992) conducts research on rhetoric and discourse, media and film, and race, ethnic, and cultural studies. Professor Ono has contributed essays to numerous journals and anthologies in communication, Asian American studies, and cultural studies. In addition to co-authoring Asian Americans and the Media (2008, Polity Press) and Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 (2002, Temple University Press), he has edited Asian American Studies after Critical Mass (2005, Blackwell) and A Companion to Asian American Studies (2005, Blackwell) and has co-edited Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek (1996, Westview Press). He is currently completing a book on films and videos about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, Forgetting to Remember: Representations of Japanese American Incarceration on Film and Video. Professor Ono was director of the Asian American Studies Program at Illinois from 2002-2007 and director of the Cultural Studies Program at UC Davis from (1999-2002). He founded the Asian American Cultural Politics Research Cluster at UC Davis in 1997 and was principal author of journal proposal for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. He helped propose and organize the Critical and Cultural Studies Division of NCA which he chaired 2000-2001; chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of NCA in 1996-1997; co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Caucus of the Society for Cinema Studies (1999-2001); and has planned several conferences. He is co-editor of the New York University Press book series: Critical Cultural Communication.