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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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-...
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...- 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...
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...- The Humanities Research Institute recently announced the selection of their second Interseminars Initiative project. The research project, entitled “Improvise and Intervene,” ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.