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),...
- 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...