Kyunghee Pyun is Associate Professor of History of Art at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her scholarship focuses on history of collecting, reception of Asian art, diaspora of Asian artists, dress history and material culture, and Asian American visual culture.
Jean Amato is Professor in the English and Communication Studies Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York. Her research concentrations are theories of nationalism, diasporic studies, gender and the ancestral home and homeland in twentieth century Chinese and Chinese American literature and film.