04/22/2019 - The Department of Asian American Studies is pleased to announce that AAS Assistant Professor Maryam Kashani has been awarded the 2019 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of...
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03/21/2019 - On March 4, 2019, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented AAS Admin Aide Christine Lyke with one of three Staff Awards in recognition of her hard work and commitment to the Department of...
02/04/2019 - Congratulations to these AAS faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Fall 2018 semester! Naomi Paik — AAS 299, AAS 375 Junaid Rana — AAS 200 Lila Sharif...
10/16/2018 - Congratulations to these AAS teaching assistants and faculty members who were ranked as excellent by their students in the Spring 2018 semester! Ga Young Chung (T.A.) — AAS 100 Alex Lee...
04/10/2018 - “I shall always remember the STUDENTS who continued to fight for Asian American Studies since 1974 all the way through the struggles of the early to mid-1990s, when the activists would...
03/13/2018 - The Department of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presents a multi-panel discussion highlighting the specific intellectual and pedagogical routes, new...
02/12/2018 - In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Department of Asian American Studies at Illinois, three scholarships of $1000 each are being made available to outstanding students in Asian American...
02/03/2018 - February 3, 2018 STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR THE GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGNIZATION We, the faculty in the department of Asian American Studies at the University of...
11/03/2017 - Colonial Pasts and Conditional Futures Speaker: Dr. Lisa Lowe Professor of English and Humanities Director, Center for Humanities Tufts...
10/23/2017 - 2017‐2018 marks 20 years of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. As part of the ongoing celebration of this milestone, we have invited three scholars to present in their own unique...
07/25/2017 - The annual Balgopal Lecture was established 10 years ago by a generous endowment from Pallassana R. Balgopal and Shyamala Balgopal in 2007. Over the ten years the department has been hosting this...
07/19/2017 - Administered through the College of Letters and Arts, the goal of the Conrad Humanities Professional Scholar Award is to recognize exceptional achievement in humanists between the initial...
05/31/2017 - What does the rising popularity of the olive mean for global consumers, producers, and resisters? How do our intimate connections with food build memories and notions of place? In...
05/17/2017 - Congratulations to Asian American Studies Professor, Dr. Augusto Espiritu for winning this year's Association of American Studies Excellence in Mentoring Award!
10/10/2016 - The annual Balgopal Lecture on Human Rights and Asian Americans is held to bring a guest speaker to the Urbana-Champaign campus to draw attention to issues of marginality and oppression...
