Jenny Banh

Jenny Banh is an associate professor in Asian American Studies and Anthropology at California State University, Fresno. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Riverside, and MA in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University and BA in anthropology from UCLA. Her research focuses on Asia, Asian American studies, cultural anthropology, and popular culture. Her current research is on restaurants, barriers/bridges to minorities college student success and a Hong Kong transnational corporation. She is the author of “I Have an Accent in Every Language I Speak!”: Shadow History of One Chinese Family’s Multigenerational Transnational Migrations." (Genealogy Journal) and “Workers’ View on Indigenization of Theme Park: A Case Study in Hong Kong” (International Journal of Business Anthropology). She has published in and co-edited Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting (Lexington, 2017) and American Chinese Restaurants: Society, Culture and Consumption (Routledge, 2019) and Fantasies of Hong Kong Disneyland (Rutgers University Press 2025).