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Lisa Nakamura. Lisa Nakamura is an American professor of media and cinema studies, Asian American studies, and gender and women’s studies. [1] She teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, [2] [3] where she is also the Coordinator of Digital Studies and the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures.
As a result of the 1968 strike, a College of Ethnic Studies (the only U.S. university academic department of its kind at the time) was established at San Francisco State University with American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Africana Studies, and Latino/a Studies as its four units, and a new Department of Ethnic Studies was ...
Asian American art often explores, questions, and interrogates identity. Scholars have questioned the use of the term Asian American art or Asian American art history for its limitations in categorization, instead focusing on diaspora, which refers to transnational movement and displaced populations. [31]
Shamita Das Dasgupta a psychology professor at Rutgers University and one of the founders of Manavi, an organization for battered South Asian women based in New Jersey. Diane C. Fujino an Asian American Studies professor, and a founding member of the Political Organization Asian sisters for Ideas in Action Now.
The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) is a professional organization promoting teaching and research in Asian American studies. Its other goals including advocacy and representation on behalf of Asian-Americans and educating American society about the history of Asian American communities.
In 2010, the figure skating coach Frank Carroll, who has coached Asian American Olympians such as Michelle Kwan and Mirai Nagasu, said that skaters of Asian How the media has traditionally covered ...
Robert George Lee is an associate professor emeritus of American Studies at Brown University.He has authored key texts in Asian American Studies [1] and, nominated by his current and former students and his colleagues, was awarded the Association for Asian American Studies' Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.
She is the funding and inaugural book series editor Asian American Studies Today for Rutgers University Press, on the Editorial Board of Overseas Chinese History Study, the Overseas Chinese History Research Institution, Beijing, China, and served as the Executive Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS 2008-2012).