Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students
This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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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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'I researched the disproportionately low voting rates of Asian Americans'
Alexandria Kim is a government and Asian American studies major.
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Students can sign up for minor in public history
Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.
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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 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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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