2023-11-16
- The Department of Asian American Studies (AAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks two postdoctoral research associates for the 2024-2025 academic year. This is a one-year appointment with a start date of August 16, 2024. Applicants must demonstrate promise for a tenure-track appointment at a research college or university, and their primary research focus must be in Asian...
2023-11-13 - Good news: the deadline for applying for this exciting opportunity has been extended until December 1, 2023. The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a Lecturer in Asian American Studies. We seek a theoretically sophisticated interdisciplinary scholar trained in ethnic studies or related fields to teach...
2023-11-01 - The Women's Resource Center is now accepting applications for the Verdell Frazier Young (VFY) Scholarship on a rolling basis. The VFY Scholarship provides scholarships to assist women and gender minorities who have had an interruption in pursuing a college degree. To learn more or apply, please visit: https://go.illinois.edu/VFY For questions...
2023-09-22 - The Department of Asian American Studies seeks an assistant, associate, or full professor with interdisciplinary expertise in Health Humanities and/or Environmental Justice. The general areas of specialization include poverty, inequality, housing discrimination; health disparities, medical racism, radical public health; environmental racism and new interdisciplinary approaches to policy-oriented...
2023-09-21 - The Asian American Studies department is celebrating its faculty member, Dr. Maryam Kashani, on her new book release. Prof. Kashani is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Well-known for her thought-provoking documentaries and visual publications, Medina by the Bay: Scenes of...- Congratulations to AAS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow Vivian Yan-Gonzalez for the publication of her new article in the Washington Post! Read the article on the Washington Post's website.
- The Department of Asian American Studies mourns the loss of Dr. Betty Lee Sung. Sung received bachelor's degrees in sociology and economics from the University of Illinois, and a PhD. from the CUNY Graduate Center. A key figure in the founding of Asian American Studies, Sung was an expert on Chinese Americans and the author of nine books. Throughout her life, Sung was committed to the flourishing...
Still need to fill that US Minority Cultures Gen Ed? Seats are currently open in AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies An interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Students will survey the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization, literature, arts, and politics. Lecture: M/W...- The Humanities Research Institute recently announced the selection of their second Interseminars Initiative project. The research project, entitled “Improvise and Intervene,” will be led by faculty members Junaid Rana (AAS), Maryam Kashani (AAS/GWS), and R. Elizabeth Velásquez...
- 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...
- 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 University this year with her dissertation entitled “A Spectrum Apart: Chinese and Japanese American...
- 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.
- 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 information about AAS courses. On Thursday, September 15, Interdisciplinary Studies and GWS will be hosting a...
- Organized by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Department of Asian American Studies, "Asian America Otherwise" is the culminating conference of the "In Plain Sight" Research Initiative funded by the University of Illinois Chancellor's Call to Action to Address Systemic Racism and Social Injustice Research Program. This conference is conceived in late pandemic time as a...
What started your interest in Asian American Studies? How long have you been a major? I took AAS 100 my freshman year and found the material really interesting. I was especially fascinated by the ways the course connected a lot of the historical events that my parents and grandparents lived through to current social problems that we are facing today. I declared my AAS major...