James Zarsadiaz, University of San Francisco

James Zarsadiaz is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program and a contributor to The Conversation. He specializes in urban and suburban history, Asian American history, and the twentieth-century United States. Prof. Zarsadiaz was a fellow at both the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History and Asian Pacific American Center. He is the author of Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. (University of California Press, 2022).