February 3, 2018
STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
FOR THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGNIZATION
We, the faculty in the department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, write to express our support for the Graduate Employees’ Organization in their effort to bargain a fair contract with the University. Graduate employees at UIUC have...
Colonial Pasts and Conditional Futures Speaker: Dr. Lisa Lowe Professor of English and Humanities Director, Center for Humanities Tufts University Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:00pm, 180 Bevier Hall 905 S. Goodwin Ave, Urbana- 2017‐2018 marks 20 years of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. As part of the ongoing celebration of this milestone, we have invited three scholars to present in their own unique ways on the topic of Refugees, Race, and Resistance. 4:00 pm “water in/on my body, seeping through my bones” | Patricia Nguyen In this artist talk Patricia...
The annual Balgopal Lecture was established 10 years ago by a generous endowment from Pallassana R. Balgopal and Shyamala Balgopal in 2007. Over the ten years the department has been hosting this lecture series, many renowned scholars and activists have been welcomed to our campus to speak on the subject of human rights and Asian Americans. Professor Balgopal is a Professor...
Administered through the College of Letters and Arts, the goal of the Conrad Humanities Professional Scholar Award is to recognize exceptional achievement in humanists between the initial promotion to associate professor through the promotion to professor, with the aim of enhancing retention of our strongest scholarly leaders. These awards are designed to recognize tenured faculty members...
What does the rising popularity of the olive mean for global consumers, producers, and resisters? How do our intimate connections with food build memories and notions of place? In Episode 39 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach and guest Lila Sharif discuss the role of food in both transnational settler...- Congratulations to Asian American Studies Professor, Dr. Augusto Espiritu for winning this year's Association of American Studies Excellence in Mentoring Award!
The annual Balgopal Lecture on Human Rights and Asian Americans is held to bring a guest speaker to the Urbana-Champaign campus to draw attention to issues of marginality and oppression experienced within Asian American communities. In this year's lecture, Dr. Eric Tang from the University of Texas will explore how refugees in urban America conceive of the continuities between the past...- Asian American Studies and Latino/Latina Studies Professor Fiona Ngô has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for 2016-2021. The award recognizes mid-career scholars with the highest potential for continued achievement in the humanities fields.
Congratulations to Asian American Studies Professor, Dr. Martin Manalansan for winning this year's Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award! The American Studies Association Minority Scholars Committee awards the Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award to honor a scholar who, like Richard Yarborough, demonstrates dedication to and excellence in mentoring underrepresented faculty, postdoctoral...
Dr. Paik's new book, Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II, was published in April and the story has been covered by the Illinois News Bureau.
THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT 2.0 AND MULTI-ETHNIC ORGANIZING IN CHICAGO AND NATIONALLY: Initial Observations and Experiences from the Field Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Yang-Clayton Director of Policy and Programs at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Chicago Wednesday, October 21 at 4:00pm, Illini Union Rm 314A Reception to Follow Free and Open to the Public Between 2000 and 2010,...- Asian American Studies and Latino/Latina Studies Professor Lisa Cacho has been named a Conrad Humanities Scholar for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences for 2015-2020. The award recognizes mid-career scholars with the highest potential for continued achievement in the humanities fields.
Congratulations to Mary Ellerbe, "the heart of UIUC's Asian American Studies" honored with a 2015 Outstanding Asian American Faculty/Staff Award at the 2015 Asian American Leadership Awards.
The Department of Asian American Studies is honored to announce this year's recipients of the Jeffery S. Tanaka Research Grant. This research grant is named for Jeffrey S. Tanaka, a professor in the University of Illinois’ departments of Psychology and Educational Psychology until his untimely death in 1992. He was well known by his students for his generosity in mentoring graduate...