With heavy hearts, the Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Asian American Studies send strength and love to the eight victims, including six Asian women, murdered at three massage parlors and spas outside Atlanta, Georgia, and to their loved ones near and far. We also send the same to all Asians and Asian Americans who have experienced gendered racial violence and racialized sexual...

The Women's Resources Center will be offering confidential advising services to students and staff. Our students need us now more than ever as we continue to navigate the multiple, ongoing pandemics that impact our communities. Isolation, worries over physical and mental health, and real concerns over safety on campus have a profound impact on individuals’ overall health and wellbeing. With the...

AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies Leland Tabares • MW 1:00 – 1:50 pm • CRN 30106 • Online Lecture (Friday Online Discussion Sections) Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Surveys the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization, literature, arts, and politics. This course satisfies the US...

AAS Associate Professor A. Naomi Paik was featured last week in a News-Gazette article discussing the future of US immigration policy under the Biden administration and the damage done by the current administration. ...

AAS 100: Intro to Asian American Studies Leland Tabares • MW 1:00 – 1:50 pm • CRN 30106 • Online Lecture (Friday Online Discussion Sections) Interdisciplinary introduction to the basic concepts and approaches in Asian American Studies. Surveys the various dimensions of Asian American experiences including history, social organization,...

Lila Sharif, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joins host Lee Artz, Ph.D. to discuss Palestine’s struggle to be recognized and how exporting olive oil is one way to keep the history of the region in the minds of Americans. The Roundtable Perspective airs Friday nights at 8:30 PM on Lakeshore PBS....

Are you interested in topics related to diversity and social justice? Do you have experience leading or facilitating difficult conversations? I-Connect Facilitators are university students who lead discussions about diversity on campus through the I-Connect Workshop program. Facilitators are hired and trained in the Fall for positions in the Spring semester.  I-Connect Diversity...

Leland Tabares is AAS's new visiting assistant professor, who is teaching AAS 120 and 200 this semester. In order to get to know him a little better, I conducted a brief virtual interview with Dr. Tabares to ask him about his teaching, research, and why he is at Illinois.   Let’s start with an introduction – who are you, and what classes are you teaching this...

Dr. A. Naomi Paik's new book, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary, was published this year and is available for purchase from the University of California Press. Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids....

AAS Associate Professor A Naomi Paik has been featured in the most recent edition of the LAS Experts column. Check it out to learn about her research, recent book, and how she believes we can move forward into a more just and hopeful future. LINK TO ARTICLE

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Statement from our friends and colleagues in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies. We join them in mourning the loss of Dr. Viruell-Fuentes. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   Dear Latina/o Studies Family and Friends,  It with great sadness that we write to tell you that our...

Each year, the Department of Asian American Studies awards a research grant, the Jeffrey S. Tanaka Asian American Studies Grant, to a graduate or PhD student whose work centers around Asian Americans. This year, our winner was Jacqueline Yi, a PhD candidate in Clinical-Community Psychology. Jacqueline Yi’s dissertation study is an in-depth, qualitative examination of activism among Asian...

  Federal government rescinds new rule regarding international students July 14, 2020 5:48 PM To our students, faculty and staff: We are pleased to inform you that the federal government on Tuesday rescinded the recent directive from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that placed new restrictions on visas for international students...

In line with Dr. A. Naomi Paik's ongoing research and work surrounding abolition, the most recent edition of Radical History Review, Policing, Justice, and the Radical Imagination, questions the necessity of a police force that enforces order through violence and envisions a world that moves...