Soo Ah Kwon and Nancy Abelmann, two AAS core faculty members, as well as their co-principal investigators Adrienne Lo and Tim Liao have just been notified that their proposal for “The American University Meets the Pacific Century (AUPC)," has been chosen for funding by the Spencer Foundation. The project examines how the escalating number of degree-seeking international undergraduates is...
- It is our distinct pleasure to announce that Lisa Cacho has won the 2013 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best book in American Studies. The complete announcement is in the following website: http://www.fromthesquare.org/?p=5673 Please join us in congratulating Lisa!
- Building on recent collaborative, international conversations about the conditions and possibilities for interdisciplinarity under current and emerging structures and strategies of the public university, this symposium hopes to contribute to this critical discussion by identifying and crafting new questions for reimagining (and reclaiming, if necessary) interdisciplinarity. Our keynote...
- Asian American Studies is happy to announce that Fiona Ngo, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Gender and Women's Studies, has been awarded one of the highly competitive Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fellowship for 2013-2014. The IPRH grants fellowships to Illinois faculty who spend the year engaged in research and writing. Faculty Fellows are provided with one...
- The Conrad Humanities Scholar designation supports the work of exceptionally promising associate professors in humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Rana's designation is effective beginning 2012-13 academic year and continuing through 2016-17 academic year.
- Starting June of 2012 the Asian American Studies program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has been officially recognized as an academic department by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Thank you to all of our supporters, with particular thanks to our Asian American student organizations who lobbied for this change.
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- Asian American Studies faculty affiliate J.B. Capino (Associate Professor, English) was awarded the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) 2010 Book Award in Cultural Studies for his monograph Dream Factories of a Former Colony: American Fantasies, Philippine Cinema (University of...
- Several Asian American Studies faculty and graduate students were recognized for their teaching, research, and service to the Asian American campus community at the 16th Annual Asian American Leadership Awards celebration held April 25, 2011. Professor Augusto Espiritu received the "Outstanding Asian American Faculty/Staff Award." Professor Kent Ono was awarded the "Asian American Studies Award...
- Professor Mimi Thi Nguyen is featured in "The San Francisco Chronicle." This article highlights Professor Nguyen's research interests in politics, aesthetics, histories, theories, cultures and subcultures that go by the names fashion and beauty, as well as her blog "...
- Professor Lisa Nakamura is featured in "The Chronicle of Higher Education." The Chronicle interview with Professor Nakamura is based on her presentation about online racism at the "SXSW Interactive," on Sunday, March 13, 2011.
- Professor Martin Manalansan was elected as the Mid-West Representative to the Association for Asian American Studies Executive Board, for 2011-2013. Anna Gonzalez, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affaris was re-elected Secretary/Treasurer of AAAS.
- Constancio Arnaldo is the recipient of a 2011 LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by Graduate Teaching Assistants. Arnaldo is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology. He has served as a Teaching Assistant for AAS 100 Intro to Asian American Studies since Fall 2008.
- The Conrad Humanities Scholar designation supports the work of exceptionally promising associate professors in humanities within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Professor Manalansan's designation is effective beginning 2010-11 academic year and continuing through 2014-15 academic year.
- Susan Koshy, Associate Professor in Asian American Studies and English, will be an Associate in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for 2010-2011 academic year.