About

A snapshot of our department:

• Started in 1998
• Undergraduate major/minor
• Over 21 core faculty members from 11 disciplines and interdisciplinary fields
• Sample courses:
  • AMST 110 Migrant Memoir
  • ASAM 082 Racial Politics of Teaching
  • ASAM 125 Intro to Asian American History, 1850-Present
  • ASAM 143 Race and Policing
  • ASAM 161 The Care Work of Asian Women
  • ASAM 175 Asian American Comics: Racial Politics
  • ENGL 161 The Futures of Asian/America
  • GWS 162 Decolonizing Gender and Sexuality in Asian America
  • MS 100 Asian Americans in Media
  • MUS 126 Music in East Asia and Its American Diasporas
  • PSYC 153 Asian American Psychology
  • SOC 150 Contemporary Asian American Issues
  • THEA 001G Acting for Social Change
• Peter Kiang Thesis Prize and Merle Woo Project Prize
• Activist/Artist-in-Residence
• Community projects: API Equality, API Forward Movement, API RISE, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Chinatown Community for Equitable Development, Filipino American National Historical Society, Southeast Asian Community Alliance, and Vigilant Love.