Lisa Cacho, Assistant Professor in Asian American Studies and Latina Latino Studies, received the 2010 Outstanding Asian American Faculty-Staff Award presented by the Asian American Cultural Center. Congratulations!
- Dr. Maryam Kashani (AAS/GWS) has been named a Helen Corley Petit Scholar for the 2024-25 academic year. The award is granted to up to seven newly tenured faculty members and is based on excellence in research and teaching.
- Election Day: Tuesday, November 8, 2022 Register to vote: illinois.turbovote.org Online voter registration deadline: October 23 In-person voter registration deadline: November...
- Congratulations to Susan Koshy for her recent receipt of a faculty fellowship with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation. From OVCRI: "Faculty Fellows inform OVCRI thinking and policy-making while simultaneously learning about campus-level research administration and research-related issues. It’s a strategic professional development opportunity to nurture new campus...
- AAS's Dr. Lila Sharif has participated in authoring a new book on critical refugee studies: Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies. The book is available now for pre-order from the University of California Press. From the publication announcement: "This book makes a compelling case for the...
- Congratulations to these AAS faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2021 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Eman Ghanayem, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow | AAS 300 Akil Guruparan, Teaching Assistant | AAS 100 Tina Horton, Teaching Assistant | AAS 100 Maryam Kashani, Assistant...
- Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and teaching assistants who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2019 semester! Results are based off of end-of-semester ICES reviews. Simon Boonsripaisal (TA) - AAS 100 Fiona Ngo - AAS 120 A. Naomi Paik - AAS 200, AAS 370 Doo Jae Park (TA) - AAS 100 Michael Uhall (TA) - AAS 100
- Professor Kent Ono and Professor Emeritus Pallassana Balgopal shared their personal experiences as Asian Americans and discussed the impact of the Asian American community on campus and Urbana-Champaign community, in a radio documentary produced by the Urbana University Laboratory High School students. "From East to West: Journeying through the Lives of Asian-Americans in Champaign-...
- Junaid Rana's new book Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke University Press, forthcoming May 2011) is recognized by The Huffington Post in its list of...
- The Asian American Studies Department has the distinct pleasure of announcing that our colleague and Associate Head, Junaid Rana, has been named the recipient of the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS) Book Award for the Social Sciences 2011. He will officially receive his award at the AAAS Dinner on Saturday night of the AAAS Annual Conference...
- Asian American Studies is happy to announce the recent publication Uncivil Youth: Race, Activism, and Affirmative Governmentality by our very own Professor Soo Ah Kwon. Click here to get your copy today!
- Monday, November 4, 2013 3:30-5:00pm Asian American Cultural Center 1210 W Nevada Urbana OPEN TO THE PUBLIC This talk engages discourses of Asian American racial difference in the post–civil rights period, by examining its relationship to the rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology since the mid-1960s. Jun argues that Asian American cultural production is uniquely situated to...
APRIL 23, 2015 — On Earth Day, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) announced award winners for its 2014-15 Certified Green Office Program. Twenty-four participating offices all agreed to the five basic commitments to become a Certified Green Office: appoint a Sustainability Ambassador; adopt a sustainable travel policy; use 30% recycled-content and FSC-...- Congratulations to these AAS faculty members and TAs who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2019 semester! Maryam Kashani — AAS 365 Sang Lee (TA) — AAS 100 Fiona Ngo — AAS 315 Junaid Rana — AAS 300 Merin Thomas (TA) — AAS 100 These results were based on end-of-semester ICES review forms.