Cam Cannon (American Studies)
Cam Cannon is a scholar of U.S. trans, social, and medical history. Their current project, Standard: Trans Activism and the History of Gender Affirming Care in the U.S., considers the diverse political and social histories of trans activists concerned with improving and expanding gender-affirming care access from the 1960s onward. Cam received their PhD in American Studies at George Washington University in 2026. At CSUF, they are excited to teach and learn about social movement history, science and society, and gender in the U.S.
Asako Yonan (Asian American Studies)
Asako Yonan will be joining CSUF ASAM beginning Fall 2026. Asako Yonan is completing her PhD in Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and is a Dissertation Fellow with the American Association of University Women. She received her MA in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from San Diego State University. Her research focuses on how material objects racialized as “Asian” animate the political anxieties and desires of US empire, and the ways in which they forge connections with Asian diasporic subjects beyond Western frameworks of kinship. She is also a co-steward of Q[Ch]Asm, a research and art collective of graduate students and multimedia artists exploring queer Asian American art and the digital humanities.
Katy Maldonado Dominguez (Chicana/o Studies)
Katy Maldonado Dominguez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chican/o Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Katy received her B.A. in Chicana/o Studies and Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her work foregrounds belonging as fundamental to being human and framing its denial as dehumanization. Her work appears in the anthology We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States, where she examines how undocumented and queer parents create and navigate families as they resist the twin pressures of xenophobia and homophobia. Katy broadly examines (non)belonging among Central American students, undocumented queer parents, and undocumented scholars, revealing how (non)belonging is produced in political, educational, and social spheres. Simultaneously, she highlights how these communities create disruptive and flexible forms of belonging that demand more just worlds. Drawing from oral histories and social media posts, she is building a digital archive documenting Central American student organizing in the United States from 1990 to the present day.
Clement Damoah (Politics, Administration, and Justice)
Clement Mensah Damoah is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics, Administration, and Justice at California State University, Fullerton. He is a public administration scholar whose research focuses on digital governance, disability, civic engagement, and public policy. His work examines how digital technologies shape the social, civic, economic, and political participation of marginalized populations. Damoah earned a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from Arizona State University. His research has been published in journals including Information, Communication & Society, Review of Policy Research, Development in Practice and Research in Transportation Business & Management. His scholarship has also appeared in edited volumes published by Routledge, Sage, Springer, and Edward Elgar Publishing. He holds an M.Phil. in Public Administration and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Ghana. Damoah is a Founders' Fellow of the American Society for Public Administration and a Fellow of the Institute for Civically Engaged Research through the American Political Science Association.