
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.
Read MoreAt 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.
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.
Read MoreThe Asian American Studies Program will hold a symposium with second director Gary Okihiro and other events this year.
Read MoreWorkers’ issues were always close to home for Yu An Chen ’22, the latest recipient of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award.
Read MoreThis year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.
Read MoreCurrently 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.
Read MoreCongratulations to our 2022 Asian American Studies graduates!
Read MoreGrowing 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...
Read MoreA number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
Read MoreThe 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