Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Department of Asian American Studies
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a full-time tenure stream faculty position as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor. We seek an...
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- Dr. Augusto Espiritu has been named Associate Head of Asian American Studies for the 2022-2023 academic year. In addition to serving as Associate Head, Dr. Espiritu will also be the student advisor for AAS. More information is available on his faculty profile.
- The Department of Asian American Studies would like to extend a warm welcome to our two new postdoctoral fellows. Welcome to Drs. Vivian Yan-Gonzalez and Emi Sawada! Vivian Yan-Gonzalez Vivian Yan-Gonzalez is a historian of race and politics in the 20th C US. She completed her PhD at Stanford...
- Asian American Studies will be participating in several exciting events next month! On Thursday, September 1, stop by Asiantation at the AACC! Our building will be open, and we will have snacks and beverages along with...
Calendar
AAS 100Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Surveys the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization, literature, arts, and politics.
AAS 200Invites students to examine histories and narratives of U.S. race and empire, drawing upon multiple theoretical and methodological works in Asian American studies and related fields.
AAS 215Examines the racial, gendered, and sexualized aspects of US citizenship historically and comparatively. Interdisciplinary course taught from a humanities perspective. Readings draw from critical legal studies, history, literature, literary criticism, and ethnography.
AAS 300Explores theories for performing interdisciplinary, intersectional and comparative studies within the field of Asian American studies. Follows multiple genealogies of critical work in ethnic and American studies.
