Asian American studies celebrates new endowment funding
"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”
"The endowment is a wonderful testament to the value of what we are teaching and the impact it’s having.”
EEB prof Michelle Smith joins in on A&S celebration: The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families. "The A&S reception provided an amazing opportunity to meet students and their friends and families, learn about their journeys and hear about how they want to contribute to the world going forward."
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...
The Society for the Humanities added to its grant offerings in 2021, awarding Humanities Impact Grants to humanities projects that “engage in broader public conversations with social impact in mind.”
The May 4 episode of All Things Equal featured Derek Chang, Cornell Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies. Chang discussed the context and history of the rise in anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias during the past year.
The May 4 episode of All Things Equal featured Derek Chang, Cornell Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies. Chang discussed the context and history of the rise in anti-Asian/Pacific Islander bias during the past year.All Things Equal airs Tuesdays at 8:30 a.m. on WHCU 870-AM. Amy Somchanhmavong, Ithaca Asian American...
Prinita Mukherjee is an anthropology major.
Asian American Studies Program students Kathie Jiang '20, Chris Kartawira '21, Miya Kuramoto '22, Nuri Yi '20, and Kevin Zong '21 sat down with our program director, Christine Bacareza Balance, to reflect on their course work, time spent in the AASP resource center, and what Asian American Studies means to them on a personal level.
The recent mass shooting in Atlanta, where six of the eight victims were Asian women, sparked national outcry and protests against increased violence toward Asian Americans. At Cornell, professors and students are joining the national conversation, demanding institutional change from the University regarding anti-Asian racism. Specifically,...
An April 1 webinar, “Critical Refugee Studies: Militarism, Migration, and Memory-work,” will bring together three leading scholars of refugee studies to explore those questions as they relate to a range of humanitarian efforts, refugee and migration policies, as well as artistic/cultural practices and performances that have formed in the wake of U.S. wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
Eight people were shot and killed Tuesday night at Atlanta-area massage parlors, six of whom were of Asian descent. Christine Bacareza Balance, director of the Asian American Studies Program and professor of performing & media arts at Cornell University, says such violent acts are a part of the white supremacist systemic violence against Black, indigenous, and all other communities of color.
A new initiative from the Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is inviting students and community members to engage in hands-on workshops and conversations with artists and arts/performance scholars. The next visit is Feb. 18.
Moderated by Kat Stafford, national investigative writer at The Associated Press, the webinar will feature five Cornell faculty experts.
<p> A new initiative from the <a href="http://pma.cornell.edu/">Department of Performing and Media Arts</a>, the <a href="https://asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu/">Asian American Studies Program</a>, and the <a href="https://latino.cornell.edu/">Latina/o Studies Program</a> is inviting students and community members to engage in hands-on workshops and conversations with artists and arts/performance scholars. The next visit is Thursday, Oct. 29.</p>
A new initiative from the Cornell University Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Asian American Studies Program, and the Latina/o Studies Program is enabling students to put into practice what they are reading, discussing, and learning in their classes. The series, “Critical Moves: Performance in Theory & Movement,” provides students...
AASP faculty members Derek Chang and Shelley Wong moderated an October 14 panel, "Anti-Racism, Activism and Institutional Change," sponsored by the Institute for Comparative Modernities and featuring both faculty and student activists. Please read The Cornell Daily Sun's article here.
<p> There isn’t one unified Asian American vision of California, argues <a href="https://as.cornell.edu/christine-bacareza-balance">Christine Bacareza Balance</a>, associate professor of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, in “California Dreaming: Movement and Place in the Asian American Imaginary,” a new multi-genre collection she co-edited.</p>
California Dreaming, co-edited by AASP Director Christine Bacareza Balance and published by the University of Hawai'i Press in August 2020, is a "new multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California, Exploring the places of 'Asian America' through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights...
The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.
<p> <em>Cornell President Martha E. Pollack <a href="https://statements.cornell.edu/2020/20200716-additional-actions.cfm">sent the following message</a> July 16:</em></p>