2024-02-14 - This spring's convocation ceremony will be held at 5:30 PM on Saturday, May 11 at the historic Virginia Theater in Champaign, IL. AAS Majors who are graduating this spring are encouraged to walk the stage and have their accomplishments formally recognized. Degree candidates from August and December 2023 are also invited to participate in convocation.  To register for convocation, please...

2024-02-12 - The Department of Asian American Studies is seeking: One or more teaching assistants at the 50% level to teach sections for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. Employment for both semesters is contingent on enrollment and fulfillment of position responsibilities. The rate of pay will be subject to the Graduate Employment Organization contract for a 50% appointment over a nine-month period. Those...

2024-02-02 - The Department of Asian American Studies celebrates Professor Maryam Kashani, who has been selected as one of four 2024 Conrad Humanities Scholars from the College of Liberal Arts. The Conrad Humanities Scholars Award recognizes promising mid-career scholars and provides financial support for continued achievement, research, and scholarship in humanities. The designation is for five years....

2024-02-01 - The Department of Asian American Studies is proud to present the Betty Lee Sung Memorial Scholarship Fund. This Fund supports travel scholarships for outstanding undergraduate majors or minors in Asian American Studies. For a student to receive this scholarship, they must demonstrate excellent scholarship in Asian American Studies and show leadership in promoting the understanding of Asian...

2024-01-23 - The first Interseminars event of 2024 kicks off next week with Joanne Barker's talk entitled "In Radical Relationality: Writing Against Climate and Gender Violence."  Joanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor of American Indian Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She serves on The Segorea Te Land Trust...

2024-01-19 - 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 core courses in Asian American Studies. Topics of instruction can include but is not limited to introduction to the field, race...

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...

2023-11-01 - 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...

2023-09-13 - AAS is proud to welcome our newest faculty member, Dr. Keva X. Bui! Dr. Bui has previously taught and worked at UCSD, Pomona College, and Pennsylvania State University.  Their work examines the entanglements of race and war as they shape everyday life under U.S. empire. Their research and teaching spans Asian American studies, feminist science and technology studies, and critical...

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),...