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
  • PSYC 153 Asian American Psychology
  • SOC 150 Contemporary Asian American Issues
  • THEA 001G Acting for Social Change
• Margo Okazawa Rey Summer Fellowship
• Peter Kiang Thesis Prize and Merle Woo Project Prize
• Activist/Artist-in-Residence
• Community projects: adult literacy in Monterey Park (LAMP), 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.