Global Public Voices fellows to speak out on democratic threats
This year, 27 fellows, including three from Arts & Sciences, will engage with national and international news media to make their voices heard on several issues.
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Asian American Studies Program
At the time of its founding in 1987, the Asian American Studies Program at Cornell University was the first such program in the Ivy League. Today the program has faculty members in the humanities and social sciences in a variety of departments and colleges. With a minor in Asian American studies, you’ll examine the histories and experiences, identities, social and community formations, politics and contemporary concerns of people of Asian ancestry in the U.S. and other parts of the Americas.
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Asian American Studies celebrates 35th anniversary
The Asian American Studies Program will hold a symposium with second director Gary Okihiro and other events this year.
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AASP minor Yu An Chen ’22 receives Kheel Center research award
Workers’ issues were always close to home for Yu An Chen ’22, the latest recipient of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award.
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Martial law anniversary marked by ‘historical revisionism’
This year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.
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Alumni Reflections: Moon-Ho Jung '00
Currently a professor of history at the University of Washington, Moon Ho-Jung '00 returned to Cornell University to give a talk on his book, "Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State" on April 26, 2022 at 4:30 p.m.
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Student Spotlight: Class of 2022
Congratulations to our 2022 Asian American Studies graduates!
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Filipino Performance Culture
Growing up as the child of Filipino immigrants in California, Christine Bacareza Balance, Performing and Media Arts, had no idea that the world of performing arts held a place for someone like her. “And then in my sophomore year in high school, the musical Miss Saigon premiered on Broadway,” she rem...
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Reunion 2022 features host of A&S events
A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
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Faculty Publication Spotlight
- Christine Bacareza Balance Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America
- Derek Chang Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century
- Viranjini Munasinghe Callaloo or Tossed Salad? East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad
- Sunn Shelley Wong The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
The Asian American Studies Program has been an invaluable part of my Cornell experience. While I initially began taking Asian American Studies courses as a way to make more meaning of my own Asian American identity, the breadth of courses I’ve taken through the AAS minor has pushed me to engage and think critically about ideas that span not only identity but also literature, art, history, politics, education, philosophy, music, and film. The program has helped me grow intellectually in ways that my technical major could not.
— Charles Yu ‘19