Asian/American Scholars of Education

Nicholas D. Hartlep (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) is the Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education at Berea College where he Chairs the Department of Education Studies. Dr. Hartlep has published 23 books, the most recent being Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education (2020). His book The Neoliberal Agenda and the Student Debt Crisis in U.S. Higher Education (2017), with Lucille L. T. Eckrich and Brandon O. Hensley, was named an Outstanding Book by the Society of Professors of Education. In 2020 he received three national awards: (1) Diverse: Issues in Higher Education named him an Emerging Scholar, (2) the American Association for Access, Equity & Diversity (AAAED) granted him the first Emerging Scholar Award, and (3) the Global Forum for Education and Learning (GFEL) named him a “Top 100 Leaders in Education.” In 2018, the Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) granted Dr. Hartlep the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement Award. Daisy Ball (Ph.D., Virginia Tech) is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program in the Department of Public Affairs at Roanoke College (Salem, VA). Her research focuses on the intersection of race and the criminal justice system, with an emphasis on the criminal justice contact of Asian Americans. Recent publications have appeared in Sociological Spectrum and Deviant Behavior. Kevin E. Wells (Ph.D., Baylor University) is Assistant Professor of Research and Educational Foundations at The University of Southern Mississippi. His research focuses on quantitative research methodology with emphases in structural equation modeling and non-linear longitudinal growth. He has recently authored or coauthored a series of articles dealing with temporal psychology that have appeared in a variety of journals, including, Psychological Assessment, Psychiatry Research, Journal of Adolescence, and International Journal of Behavioral Development. He is currently teaching courses in research methodology, educational statistics, and missing data.

• Nicholas D. Hartlep, Daisy Ball and Kevin E. Wells: Introduction – Crystal Chen Lee: A Critical Case for Making the Invisible Known: The Mentorship, Scholarship, and Leadership of Professor A. Lin Goodwin – Timothy Bolin, Charlotte Achieng- Evensen and Kevin Stockbridge: Scholarship as Meditation: Lessons Calling Us to Theory and Action – Brian C. Kim: Kioh Kim: No Failure Is Too Great to Overcome – David Wesley Lausch: “Then and Now”: Chasing Academic Goals and Living American Dreams, the Dual Narrative of an Asian/ American Endowed Professor – Laura Kern, Kate Dooley, Brandi Simonsen, Jennifer Freeman and Ed Kame’enui: George Sugai: The Shaping of Success – Rita Poimbeauf: Rice Paddy Resiliency: The Transformation of a Chinese American, Scholar, and Endowed Professor for Global Leadership Studies – Yurou Wang: The Scholar with Entrepreneurial Spirit: Professor Yong Zhao’s Success through Passion, Strength, and Value – Bach Mai Dolly Nguyen and Cynthia Maribel Alcantar: Analogies of a BlackBerry: The Foundation and Impact of the Inaugural Morgan and Helen Chu Endowed Chair in Asian American Studies at UCLA – Sheetal Sood and Amy E. Lein: The Development of a Legacy: Paying It Forward – Xinye Hu and Yanli Ma: From Dreaming of Being a Biologist to Becoming an Endowed Professor in Higher Education: When Passion and Diligence Meet Opportunity – Gaowei Chen: Lucky to Be Alive: Ming Ming Chiu’s Persistent, Creative Path Via Computer Science, Education, and Statistics – Chanjin Zheng: Journey to Excellence: Professor Hua- Hua Chang’s Success through Passion and Education – Brandon O. Hensley: A Wandering Moon and the (Summer) Class That Changed My Life – Bethany D. Merillat: Transformative Vision: A 21st Century American Dream – Sheng- Lun Cheng and Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn: Adaptability, Collaboration, Mentorship, and Impact: Lessons Learned by a Leading Asian American Scholar – Kongji Qin: Bridging East and West: Dr. Guofang Li’s Success as a Transnational Scholar in Language and Literacy Education in North America – Christian D. Chan: Linking the Crossroads of Our Liberation: A Reflection of Joy in Academia, Mentorship, and Collective Action – Author Index – Subject Index.

“Hartlep, Ball, and Wells present an incredible array of essays written by the world’s most foremost scholars on what it means to be Asian American and hold distinguished faculty appointments. These collected works will do much to raise much needed consciousness on the trials, tribulations, and hopes of a racial group that has experienced tragic experiences of exclusion and xenophobia.”—Dr. René Antrop-González, Dean and Professor of Education, SUNY at New Paltz