Faculty Awards

Dr. Maryam Kashani (AAS/GWS) has been named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. The award is granted to up to seven newly tenured faculty members and is based on excellence in research and teaching.

Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and...

Congratulations to these AAS faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2021 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Eman Ghanayem, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow | AAS 300 Akil Guruparan...

Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2019 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Simon Boonsripaisal (TA) - AAS 100 Fiona Ngo - AAS 120 A. Naomi Paik - AAS 200, AAS 370 Doo Jae...

  Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and TAs who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2019 semester! Maryam Kashani — AAS 365 Sang Lee (TA) — AAS 100 Fiona Ngo — AAS 315 Junaid Rana — AAS 300 Merin Thomas (TA) — AAS 100 These results were based on end-of...

  Congratulations to these AAS faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2018 semester! Naomi Paik — AAS 299, AAS 375 Junaid Rana — AAS 200 Lila Sharif — AAS 105 These results were based on end-of-semester ICES review forms.  

  Congratulations to these AAS teaching assistants and faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2018 semester! Ga Young Chung (T.A.) — AAS  100 Alex Lee (T.A.) — AAS 100 Jennifer Kelly — AAS 100 Naomi Paik — AAS 100 Junaid Rana...

Dr. Yoon Pak, Professor of Asian American Studies and Head of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership (EPOL) has been elected the 2019-2020 President of the History of Education Society.

The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded the 2019 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education.

AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded one of two Junior Research Fellowships by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory for her project "Medina by the Bay: An Islamic Ethics of Difference and Survival in the Bay Area." As a Junior Fellow, Professor Kashani will be...