Foreword : Identities Asian, female, scholar : critiques and celebrations of the North American Academy / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Introduction : Reconstructing culture and identity in the academy : Asian female scholars theorizing their experiences / Guofang Li, Gulbahar H. Beckett -- Asian Pacific American women and men in higher education : the contested spaces of their participation, persistence, and challenges as students, faculty, and administratiors / Shirley Hune -- Asian American gender gap in science and technology : tracking male versus female college students' paths toward academic careers / Jaekyung Lee -- Theorizing experiences of Asian women faculty in second- and foreign-language teacher education / Angel Lin ... [et al.] -- Professing in a nonnative tongue : narrative construction of realities and oppportunities / Xiaoping Liang -- Multiple mentors in my career as a university faculty / Keiko Komiya Samimy -- Navigating multiple roles and multiple discourses : a young Asian female scholar's reflection on within-race-and-gender interactions / Guofang Li -- Asian American women in the academy : overcoming stress and overturning denials in advancement / Chalsa M. Loo, Hsiu-Zu Ho -- Brown in black and white : on being a South Asian woman academic / Nina Asher -- Unmasking the self : struggling with the model minority stereotype and lotus blossom image / Eunai Kim Shrake -- Within the "safe haven" of women's studies : a Thai female faculty's reflection on identity and scholarship / Piya Pangsapa -- Between the worlds : searching for a competent voice / Yan Guo -- Moderation, modesty, creativity, and criticalness : a Chinese American medical professor speaks / Gulbahar H. Beckett, Jianhua Zhang -- The road less traveled : an Asian woman immigrant faculty's experience practicing global pedagogy in teacher education / Guichun Zong -- From mentorship to friendship, collaboration, and collegiality / Xue Lan Rong, Judith Preissle -- Building bridges, working for a better world / Jing Lin.