Jane Hong

Jane Hong is Associate Professor of History at Occidental College and the author of Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). A public-facing historian, she appears in the PBS docuseries, Asian Americans (2020) and has written for the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Time magazine. Hong’s forthcoming book explores how post-1965 Asian immigration changed U.S. evangelical institutions and politics (Oxford University Press). Her next project, Beyond Demographic Destiny: How Im/migrants of Color Are Changing American Conservatism and Race, uses Orange County, California, as a lens to chart the rise of conservatism and political polarization among im/migrant communities of color, with a focus on Asian American and Latine conservatives since the 1970s. Born in Brooklyn and raised in northern New Jersey, Hong currently lives in Los Angeles.