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David L. Eng (he/him) is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Faculty Director of the Program in Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in psychoanalysis, critical race theory, queer theory, and Asian American studies, Eng is the author of four monographs, the most recent of which, Reparations and the Human (Duke, forthcoming 2025), investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. In 2016, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York City. In 2021, he was awarded the Kessler Prize, which is given to a scholar or activist who has produced a body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies.
Shinhee Han, PhD (she/her) is a senior psychotherapist in Counseling Services at The New School and in
private practice in New York City. She is the co-author (with David L. Eng) of Racial Melancholia,
Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke, 2019). Han is also a founding member of the Asian Women Giving Circle in New York City, a philanthropic organization that funds Asian women artists creating social activism and change. Previously, she was a therapist at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Barnard College, and Columbia University.
Andrew Asibong, PhD (he/him) is an intercultural psychodynamic psychotherapist and film theorist, whose recent publications include Post-Traumatic Attachments to the Eerily Moving Image: Something to Watch Over Me (Routledge, 2022) and “Walking on Thin Ice: Discussion of Kris Yi’s ‘Asian-American Experience: The Illusion of Inclusion and the Model Minority’”(Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2023).
Sandra Park, MD (she/her) is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center
for Psychoanalytic Research and Training, and a voluntary faculty member at the Weill Cornell Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry. She teaches courses on the psychodynamics of race at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Weill Cornell Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry. She was a co-author of the book Psychodynamic Formulation: An
Expanded Approach (2022), which integrated the sociocultural context into the psychodynamic understanding of patients. A recipient of several teaching awards at both Cornell and Columbia, her work explores the topics of race and racial identity. She is in full-time private practice in Manhattan.
Michelle Ann Stephens PhD, LP (she/her), is a graduate of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis & Psychology and a practicing psychoanalyst. She is also Professor of English and Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University and the Founding and Executive Director of Rutgers’ Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ). She is the author of Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis and The Black Male Performer (Duke University Press, 2014); and recent articles on the intersections of race and psychoanalysis in JAPA, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society.
Mary Kim Brewster, Ph.D (she/her) is the guest editor of the special edition of Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 25(4): “On Being Asian in America,” and an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a clinical psychologist, a faculty member of The Asian American Center for Psychoanalysis and the Director of the Serious Mental Illness and the Family Project at the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York. Kim Brewster supervises in the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York and has a private practice in New York.