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Spring 2020 Award Winners

The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that the winners of the first Betty Lee Sung Undergraduate Award and the annual Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant have been selected. The Betty Lee Sung Undergraduate Award has been awarded to Ireland...

AAS Announces Betty Sung Undergraduate Award

The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for a new departmental award. The Betty Lee Sung Undergraduate Award honors outstanding undergraduate majors or minors in Asian American Studies who have demonstrated excellent scholarship in Asian...

Department Awards

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Congratulations to our award winners for the 2025 Betty Lee Sung Undergraduate Award and the 2025 Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant!

Lisa Cacho receives the 2010 Outstanding Asian American Faculty-Staff Award!

Lisa Cacho, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Latina Latino Studies, received the 2010 Outstanding Asian American Faculty-Staff Award presented by the Asian American Cultural Center. Congratulations!

Martin Manalansan is recognized as a Conrad Humanities Scholar by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences!

The Conrad Humanities Scholar designation supports the work of exceptionally promising associate professors in humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Manalansan's designation is effective beginning 2010-11 academic year and continuing through 2014...

Constancio Arnaldo receives LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants

Constancio Arnaldo is the recipient of a 2011 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. Arnaldo is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology. He has served as a Teaching Assistant for AAS 100 Intro to Asian American Studies since Fall 2008.

Junaid Rana's new book "Terrifying Muslims" recognized in The Huffington Post

Junaid Rana's new book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, forthcoming May 2011) is recognized by The Huffington Post in its...

AAS Faculty and Graduate Assistants Recognized

Several Asian American Studies faculty and graduate students were recognized for their teaching, research, and service to the Asian American campus community at the 16th Annual Asian American Leadership Awards celebration held April 25, 2011. Professor Augusto Espiritu received the "Outstanding...

J.B. Capino's book "Dream Factories of a Former Colony" wins Association for Asian American Studies 2010 Book Award in Cultural Studies

Asian American Studies faculty affiliate J.B. Capino (Associate Professor, English) was awarded the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) 2010 Book Award in Cultural Studies for his monograph ...

Susan Koshy's article Minority Cosmopolitanism wins Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Honorable Mention

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