- 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.
- Congratulations to these AAS faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2018 semester! Naomi Paik — AAS 299, AAS 375 Junaid Rana — AAS 200 Lila Sharif — AAS 105 These results were based on end-of-semester ICES review forms.
- Congratulations to these AAS teaching assistants and faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2018 semester! Ga Young Chung (T.A.) — AAS 100 Alex Lee (T.A.) — AAS 100 Jennifer Kelly — AAS 100 Naomi Paik — AAS 100 Junaid Rana — AAS 561 These results were based on end-of-semester ICES review forms.
- Dr. Yoon Pak, Professor of Asian American Studies and Head of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership (EPOL) has been elected the 2019-2020 President of the History of Education Society.
- The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded the 2019 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education.
AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded one of two Junior Research Fellowships by the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory for her project "Medina by the Bay: An Islamic Ethics of Difference and Survival in the Bay Area." As a Junior Fellow, Professor Kashani will be provided with funds for conducting her research, as well as a manuscript workshop organized by the Unit...