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Sandhya Shukla ’88, a professor of English and American Studies at the University of Virginia, presented her ideas of “Cross-Culturalism” on Thursday afternoon in Goldwin Smith Hall. In the talk, she examined Harlem, New York and other heterogeneous communities to study how different cultures interact.
“Strangers in the Land,” the recently published book by New Yorker Editor Michael Luo, chronicles the journey of Chinese immigrants to the American West, and then eastward across the country. Perhaps inevitably, it is also an account of the violence and bigotry directed against them, which only became more intense as the boom years of the Western Gold Rush gave way to the economic downturn that followed the Civil War. Christian clergy cast their own shadow over Luo’s narrative. Faith leaders — almost all of them white Protestants — were instrumental in shaping, not only the experience of the immigrant, but also the communities that sometimes welcomed, sometimes attacked them.
Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press.
Congratulations to our Class of 2025 Asian American Studies graduates!
Ameya Kamani is a government major.
Alexis Boyce, Asian American Studies Program manager and co-chair of the Staff Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Committee, discusses the group’s ongoing efforts to address staff concerns and drive meaningful change.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Adhy Kim, Literatures in English, Asian American Studies
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
Alexis Boyce, program manager for the Asian American Studies Program, has been honored with the Employee Assembly's Award for Staff Inclusion and Integrity.
Congratulations to our Class of 2024 Asian American Studies graduates!
In January, Cornell graduate student Kaitlin Findlay ran a workshop on community engaged curation and representing histories of loss at the Nikkei National Museum near Vancouver, Canada. The purpose of the workshop, which was partially funded by the Asian American Studies Program through its support for graduate student professional development, was to reflect on the curatorial process for the Broken Promises exhibition (September 2020-June 27, 2021), which told the story of the forced dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Kelly Su is a biology & society major with minors in global health and Asian American studies.
AASP's Derek Chang is one of thirteen Cornell faculty members have received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. The awards, given annually to one person from each of the university’s colleges and schools, recognize faculty who have recently developed community-engaged learning, leadership or research activities that create curricular and co-curricular opportunities for students.
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”
The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.
Shirley Lim's ’90 research into Hollywood icon Anna May Wong is receiving lots of attention as Wong is pictured on a new set of U.S. quarters.
The cinema's fall schedule includes "Rocky Horror Picture Show," as well as some of the British Film Institute’s top movies of all time.
In an ongoing effort, Cornellians are being asked to recall their student days for an oral history.
Nexus Scholars spent eight weeks this summer working with researchers on campus on projects in the humanities, social sciences and physical sciences.
Two faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences are the recipients of the 2023 Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching and Service through Diversity.
Balance, Nicholson honored for research, teaching and service
Congratulations to our Class of 2023 Asian American Studies graduates!
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.
Alexandria Kim is a government and Asian American studies major.
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.
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.
The program matches undergraduate students with summer opportunities to work side by side with faculty from across the College.
The Asian American Studies Program will hold a symposium with second director Gary Okihiro and other events this year.
Workers’ issues were always close to home for Yu An Chen ’22, the latest recipient of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award.
This year’s anniversary of Philippine martial law is momentous, says professor Christine Bacareza Balance.
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.
Congratulations to our 2022 Asian American Studies graduates!
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 remembers. “The original production starred [...
A number of special events are planned in the College of Arts & Sciences to celebrate Reunion 2022.
On Cornell’s eighth Giving Day, held March 16, 15,905 alumni, students, faculty, staff, parents and friends from more than 80 countries made gifts totaling a record-breaking $12,268,629.
Gifts allow the College to fulfill its mission: preparing students to do the greatest good in the world.
This interview was conducted by Alyssa Kamath '23 and Juhwan Seo, PhD student in sociology, with Diane Wong '18, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, Newark. The Asian American Studies Program hosted Dr. Wong for a virtual talk, "Research Justice and Stretching the Contours of Asian American Politics," on April 13, 2021...
A $5 million alumni gift will help to support doctoral students in humanities fields within the College of Arts & Sciences.
The program connects undergraduates in A&S with opportunities to work side by side on research with Cornell faculty from across the College.
The Nexus Scholars program will leverage the student-to-faculty ratio and the vibrant research enterprise in A&S to expand opportunities for students, while also enhancing the culture of collaborative scholarship at Cornell.
Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising.
As an Asian American growing up in Alaska, Juliana Hu Pegues was often told stories of Asian immigrants, by family and friends, even teachers, that never made it into the history books about her home state.Visit the Cornell Chronicle of the rest of the article.
Read Cornell Chronicle article here: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/08/grad-student-breath-fresh-air-c2c-filtration-project
Juliana Hu Pegues, Literatures in English
(left to right) Betty Wang, Minyoung Jung, Helena Jungyun Kim, Kathie Jiang, Kumar Nandanampati, Sarah Xu, Eunnuri Yi, Jia Ning Xie, and Naomi Li Congratulations to our 2020 Asian American Studies graduates!Curtis Ho – Fine Arts, College of Architecture, Art, and PlanningKathie Jiang – Art History, College of Arts and SciencesMinyoung...
Congratulations to our 2021 Asian American Studies graduates!Michelle Abramowitz – American Studies, College of Arts and SciencesJane Vivian Fu Jackson – Architecture, College of Architecture...