The Department of Asian American Studies offers a minor for graduate and undergraduate students. This spring we have 1 graduate and 3 undergraduates completing their degrees and a minor in Asian American Studies.
Debbie Kim, BA LAS, History of Art
Brian Oh, BS Finance
Hannah Park, BA LAS, History
Constancio Arnaldo, PHD Anthropology
Our graduating minors were recognized on...
- Dr. Nancy Abelmann was awarded the Humanities Council Teaching Excellence Award. Dr. Fiona Ngo was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
- Congratulations AAS Professor Mimi Nguyen for being selected as one of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Fellows for 2015-2016.
It is our distinct honor to announce that AAS faculty member, Prof. Fiona Ngo has won the LAS Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Nominations were evaluated in terms of achievement according to established criteria that included sustained excellence in undergraduate teaching, positive impact on undergraduate student learning, innovative approaches...- On Wednesday, August 27, 2014, the faculty of the Department of Asian American Studies cast a vote of no confidence in UIUC Chancellor Phyllis Wise and the Board of Trustees. In response to the firing of Professor Steven Salaita by the Chancellor, an act that undermined shared governance and unit autonomy, and the recent suggestions reported in the media of external pressures from donors and...
- The Department of Asian American Studies (AAS) believes in free speech and the respectful exchange of ideas. A vital research institution such as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign cannot flourish without such a commitment. This is the foundation of our work both inside and outside of the classroom. And this is why the January 27 and 28 events were so disturbing for our...
- The 2014 Illinois Student Senate Teaching Excellence Award is a student-nominated and student-selected award from across the University. Congratulations to AAS Professor Fiona Ngo.
- 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...