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Welcome to the Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College. We are proud to offer CUNY's largest undergraduate program in AAS, recently serving 1100 students. Please check out our many diverse course offerings. Fall 2022 Asian American Studies Program Schedule of Classes Summer 2022 Asian American Studies Program Schedule of Classes
June 2022
Congratulations to our graduating Asian American Studies minors & recent alums! Devashish Basnet has been named a 2022 Rhodes Scholar and is only the second student in the history of Hunter College to receive a Rhodes. Read more about Basnet's journey from Nepal to the United States and his amazing accomplishments here. Mahnoor Ali has been awarded the Hunter College Asian American Studies Scholarship. In addition to Ali's academic excellence, she has done leading work for the NYC chapter of the National Asian Pacific Women's Forum, helping to create its first Urdu/Bangla Outreach Team. The AAS Undergraduate Scholarship for AASP Minors has been made possible thanks to a generous gift from Dr. Robert E. Lee, Hunter College Class of 1965. Kudos to two recent alums: Rachel Tieu has been an invaluable asset to Asian American Studies and HCAP this semester. Shakila Khan published Visuality of Violence: An Examination of Images Depicting Racialized Political Violence in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal (p 63).
May 2022
It is AAPI Heritage Month, and we are seeking applicants for a Distinguished Lecturer faculty position in Asian American Studies at Hunter College!
May 31st (TUESDAY) @6:00PM EST Forging Allyship Beyond Corporate America: A Conversation between Researchers and Practitioners
Panel featuring Hunter Prof. Margaret M. Chin, Partner at Deloitte & Touche Sandeep Gupta, advocate Dr. Ngan Nguyen, and Roosevelt House board member and business leader Angie Tang. The panel discusses Margaret M. Chin's award winning book, Stuck: Why Asian Americans Don't Reach the Top of the Corporate Ladder. Recording Available! http://www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/forging-allyship-beyond-corporate-america-conversation-researchers-practitioners/#video_container
April 30th (SATURDAY) @ 1:00PM - 3:30PM EST AAWW At 30: The Village People
Featuring readings and reflections from poets, novelists, essayists, and memoirists in celebration of three decades of the Asian American Writers' Workshop. Recording Available!
In May, Hunter's AAS is proud to co sponsor Photographic Justice: A Tribute to Corky Lee, on view now at THE HON. CHARLES P. SIFTON GALLERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, NY 11201; and to celebrate Larry Lee, who was honored with the 2020 Major Award for Professional Achievement from the Alumni Association of Hunter College. Larry Lee (MA, MSW) is the founder and leader of several organizations providing resources to poor people of color across education, labor, mental health, and civic participation.
March 28th (MONDAY) @4:30PM EST The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
Mae Ngai, 2022 Bancroft Prize Winner and Columbia Historian, as she engages in an online discussion of her new book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
March 16th (WEDNESDAY) @5PM EST Beyond Representation: What the Image of Inclusion Conceals
Today, with more Asian Americans in the arts, does inclusion conceal the transformative work that still needs to be done? Panelists: Howie Chen, Curator/editor of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network 1990-2001, moderator; Kandice Chuh, Professor of English, American Studies, and Critical Social Psychology, the CUNY Graduate Center; Sowon Kwon, Artist/Faculty in Graduate Fine Arts, Parsons The New School; & Bakirathi Mani, Professor of English Literature, Swarthmore College. Recording Available!
February 15th (TUES) @6PM EST Confetti Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Film Screening of Confetti & Panel Discussion with writer/director Ann Hu and attorney Nelson Mar. Discussion on Asian Americans and Special Education moderated by Chris M. Kwok, Asian American Studies Adjunct Faculty at Hunter College. Audio Recording of Discussion Available!
November 17th (WED) @ 4 p.m. ET Why BTS and K-Pop Should Matter to Asian Americans
Exciting discussion with Yale Sociologist Grace Kao about how BTS' worldwide visibility - and public stands on BLM, racial solidarity, and gender identity -- affect images of Koreans and Asians, and the identities of Asian Americans. Recodring Available!
October 20th (WED) @ 5PM Arts & Activism: Reflections from Curtis Chin and Bino Realuyo
RSVP to join Hunter's Asian American Studies on Oct 20 (Wed) at 5 p.m. ET for an exciting discussion of Arts & Activism: Reflections from Curtis Chin, award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker, and acclaimed novelist Bino Realuyo. bit.ly/aas1020 For more details check out our flyer here!
November 16, 2021
In memory of Mary Li Hsu, alumnus of the Hunter Graduate School of Social Work. A leader in Asian American communities and in student affairs at Yale (Class of 1980), BMCC and Hunter College. She was a kind, inspiring and dedicated advocate, leader and mentor, especially to first generation college students. See tribute.
Asian American Studies at Hunter College (Fall 2021)
We recognize that education is more important than ever. This is especially true during these challenging times of anti-Asian hate. We highlight the work of our director, faculty affiliates, and adjunct faculty in Asian American Studies at Hunter College along with our Hunter students and alumni. We are proud to have offered two community trainings in responding to Anti-Asian harassment. See some of our recorded events.
Director, Vivian Louie
Commentary
- @nycfuture report, recommendations to intergrate and expand ethnic studies educational programming & leverage the city's rich nonprofit sector to spur interracial/ethnic dialogue.
- Asian American studies, more vital than ever: Coronavirus is a moment we should be learning.
- Asian American Studies: Telling the Story of America
Research Article
- Asian Americans and COVID-19: What We Still Need to Know about Race and Racial Exclusion in America.
Quoted In
- From racial slurs to thrown rocks, Delaware's Asian community says hate exists here, too
- Critics pounce on Meghan McCain's comments about Asian representation on 'The View'
Featured in Podcasts and Webinars
- Asian American Life for CUNY TV. Election 2021 in NYC.
- The Thought Project -- To Stop Anti-Asian Racism, First Remedy Ignorance and Nationalism -- in conversation with Hunter colleagues Manu Bhagavan (History & Human Rights Program) and Tanya Domi (Human Rights Program)
- The Pandemic's Effect on Education
- The Discriminatory Impact of COVID-19
Faculty Affiliates in Education, Social Work, Urban Policy & Planning and Sociology
- The forgotten neighborhood: how New York's Chinatown survived 9/11 to face a new crisis featuring Margaret M. Chin, co author of The 'model minority' myth hurts Asian Americans - and even leads to violence
- Stigma Is Associated With Widening Health Inequities: Challenges From the Current COVID-19 Pandemic co written by Ming-Chin Yeh
- Stare Down the White Gaze: Demystifying the "Model Minority" Stereotype - commentary by Yang Hu
- Social Work's Call to Action Against Pandemic Othering & Anti-Asian Racism, co written by Keith Chan
- The Problem with Policing Massage Workers After the Atlanta Shooting, featuring John Chin
Adjunct Faculty
- Glenn Magpantay is a 2021 Soros Equality Fellow - he will survey the history of queer Asian organizing over the past 20 years to build a sustainable and robust queer Asian movement for racial justice. He also has been honored with the "Award for Excellence in Pre-Law Advising" from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Pre-Law Education & Admission to Law School.
- Linh An is recognized in City & State's inaugural Mental Health Power 50 list and interviewed in the Decolonizing Mental Health series.
- Chris Kwok has been named to Manhattan D.A. Elect Alvin Bragg's transition team, and is co author of A Rising Tide of Hate and Violence against Asian Americans in New York During COVID-19: Impact, Causes, Solutions
- Glenn Magpantay has been honored with the "Award for Excellence in Pre-Law Advising" from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Pre-Law Education & Admission to Law School and is author of TIGER: A Sustainable Model for Building LGBTQ AAPI Community.
- Chris Lin's artwork is featured at the Queens Museum's Wet Networks exhibit, alongside the Museum's long-term exhibition of The Relief Map of New York City's Water Supply System; and will be featured at Wave Hill in the Bronx, as part of its winter workspace exhibit.
- Fidelito Cortes was named an Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities Faculty Fellow at CUNY in Fall 2021.
Our Alumni
- Van Tran (Class of 2004) featured in @nycfuture report, writing about expanding benefits and extending local voting rights to immigrant communities and in New report finds 169 percent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes during the first quarter.
- New report finds 169 percent surge in anti-Asian hate crimes during the first quarter -- featuring Van Tran (Class of 2004)
Our Students
For more information, see our full list of Faculty and Affiliates.
Additional Work from our Faculty and Affiliates
Higher Education and Faculty of Color
Immigrant Labor
Seo, J. Y., Chao, Y.-Y., & Strauss, S. M. (2019). Work-related symptoms, safety concerns, and health service utilization among Korean and Chinese nail salon workers in the greater New York City area.Asian Pacific Journal of Public Health, 31(3), 199-209.
Seo, J. Y., Chao, Y.-Y., Yeung, K. M., & Strauss, S. M. (2019). Factors influencing health service utilization among Asian immigrant nail salon workers in the Greater New York City area.Journal of Community Health, 44(1), 1-11.
LGBTQ
Magpantay, Glenn. TIGER: A Sustainable Model for Building LGBTQ AAPI Community, 30 Asian Amer. Pol'y Rev. 5 (2020) (Harvard J.F.K. School of Government).
Arts
Exhibitions:
Earthly Delights, Good Naked Gallery, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
Hibernation, The Royal at the Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY, 2020
Choreography for an Unfamiliar Here, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2021
