Dr. Janelle Wong is a professor in the Departments of Government and Politics and American Studies. Wong’s research interests are focused on race and politics, public opinion, immigration, and Asian American Studies. Wong is the author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change, Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions, and co-author of two books on Asian American politics, including Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and their Political Identities, based on the first national, multilingual, multiethnic survey of Asian Americans. She has also served as a co-principal investigator for the 2016 National Asian American Survey, a nationwide survey of Asian American political and social attitudes. 

Before joining Maryland, Wong was in the Departments of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys hanging out with her family and pets, snowboarding, and trying new foods.