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UCLA has produced more scholars for the field of Asian American studies than any other university in the nation.

The Asian American Studies interdepartmental degree program was established in the UCLA College in fall 1976, although the center began offering classes in 1969. Departmentalization occurred in 2004, moving the program from it's previous interdepartmental program status to an officially recognized degree program within the Social Sciences division of UCLA's College of Letters & Science. The creati

on of a department of Asian American studies marks a significant step forward in the development of an academic discipline devoted to understanding an important segment of American society and culture. It also has developed the largest Asian American studies teaching program in the nation, which annually offers more than 70 courses and enrolls more than 3,000 students. The department offers courses for the UCLA undergraduate and graduate students majoring and minoring in Asian American studies. The department also includes a Master of Arts program and two concurrent Master's degree programs with the community health sciences and social welfare departments. The department also offers UCLA doctoral candidates an informal concentration to supplement their own field of study with an emphasis in Asian American Studies. For more information about the department and its programs, visit the department website at:
http://www.asianam.ucla.edu/index.html

12/15/2023

Congratulations to our Asian American Studies 186 students for completing their capstone projects! We had some truly remarkable, innovative, and fascinating topics this quarter. Thank you all for such amazing work!

09/18/2023

Looking to meet up with old friends from your Asian Am classes, or make new ones for the upcoming year? Stop by the Asian American Studies Department Open House between 12-2PM on Wed Sept. 27 (week 0) at Rolfe 3336!

We’ll have free food and drinks, and great conversation! See you there!🎉

07/27/2023

Congratulations on your successful MA thesis defense Catherine! You did some amazing work throughout the MA program, and from the faculty and staff, we are so proud of you!

Catherine’s thesis is titled “(De)familiarizing Southeast Asian Refugees’ Kinship across Resettlement, Racialization, and Deportation” and her committee included Professor Jolie Chea, Professor Lee Ann Wang, and Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, with Professor Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo as her committee chair.

07/24/2023

Can you believe it's been over a month since our graduates have walked the stage?

To the Class of 2023, the Asian American Studies Department offers our warmest congratulations! You have all learned so much and worked so hard throughout your years here at UCLA, and the Department wishes you all the best with your future endeavors. Cheers!🎉🥳

07/21/2023

Congratulations on your successful MA Thesis Defense David! 🥳🥳 The Asian American Studies Department thanks you for the amazing work you’ve done.

His thesis was titled “Haunting the Korean American Church: Cold War History and Evangelical Fundamentalism” and his committee members included Professor Grace Hong, Professor Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo and Professor Ju Hui Judy Han.

07/19/2023

Congratulations Emiko Okamura on your successful MA Capstone defense!🎉🎉

For her Capstone project, Emiko produced a collection of poetry titled Outside Talk. Her Capstone advisory committee included Professor Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and Professor Keith Camacho.

We are so proud of your hard work throughout the MA program, and we wish you the best!

05/26/2023

On Wednesday, Professor Natalie Masuoka led the last department meeting of the academic year! This wraps up her term as Chair of the Asian American Studies Department. We celebrate and thank Natalie for all her dedication and service in leading the department over the last three years!

05/23/2023

On Saturday, May 20th, students in AAS 176 (the Philippines and its Elsewheres) spent the day at the Pilipino Workers Center Historic Filipinotown, where they took a tour of HiFi led by Hannah DeCastro-Abinuman, worked with Professor Burns and artist Tala Mateo installing a timeline of Filipinx migration to the US on walls of the PWC offices in the Larry Itliong Village building, and went for a drive in a 1947 Jeepney model.

Thanks to the Asian American Studies Center and PWC for supporting this project. Congratulations to the spring quarter 2023 AAS 176 students for their fantastic work on this project!

05/22/2023

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Another Land in Sky show!

A special thank you to and for their beautiful performance, and another special thanks to for their work organizing this event!

05/16/2023

Please join UCLA AASD, and on MAY 20 10AM-4PM at the Pilipino Workers Center for Airing Histories: a timeline installation project!

RSVP through the link in our bio; the first 15 students to RSVP will receive a transportation stipend! Email [email protected] for any questions.

05/09/2023

Another Land in the Sky, May 15th, 5:00-7:00pm at the UCLA Northwest Campus Auditorium

Join us for a night of powerful art and community building with Jess X Snow and treya lam. Experience live poetry, music, and cinema that will take you on a journey through Asian American resistance and the healing of collective trauma. Food and drinks will be provided after the show!

RSVP at tinyurl.com/2023alits

About the artists: Jess X. Snow (they/them/他) is a non-binary filmmaker, multi-disciplinary artist, poet and thesis candidate in the directing MFA program at NYU Tisch. Spanning community-informed murals, narrative films, childrens books and coming of age fiction—their body of work reimagines mental (un)wellness, intergenerational practices of care and kinship across cultures and species; and abolitionist futures. Their short films, centering the desires, disobediences and dreams of flawed Chinese migrant queers—have screened at festivals globally. Their stories have been supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the Sundance Institute, Make Me a World/Randomhouse and residencies at the NYU A/P/A Institute, Asian American Arts Alliance, MoCADA, amongst others. Currently they are working on a coming-of-age novel and debut narrative feature about an emo Chinese immigrant artist confronting the illegalized mystical force inside of her, and a narrative feature screenplay, with co-writer, Alán Pelaez Lopez, exploring Black/Asian intimacies and time travel in the 19th and 20th centuries.

treya lam is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who’s joyously complex identity informs but does not define their work, whether solo or when collaborating with a variety of multidisciplinary ensembles. their strident voice, politically charged songwriting and fluency on guitar, piano and looped viola recalls Nina Simone and Andrew Bird. treya’s debut Good News was created entirely by womxn and genderqueer collaborators and released via Kaki King’s label. lam is a OneBeat fellow, NYCLU Artist Ambassador and active member of the Resistance Revival Chorus. their song Dawn was featured on the RRC’s debut album This Joy - released on Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records. lam has performed original music at Lincoln Center, MASS MoCA, the Prospect Park Bandshell and the American Museum of Natural History and opened for Ani Difranco, Valerie June and Kaki King. they are currently developing otherland - an interdisciplinary grief ritual and chamber protest album that explores grief as a catalyst for radical empathy, intersectional solidarity and repairing our relationship to the earth.

05/09/2023

Join UCLA Center for Korean Studies on May 22 at 4PM in 10383 Bunche Hall to learn about how feminist, eco-peace movements are reshaping the politics of antimilitarist and anti-US base movements in Jeju Island (South Korea) and its connections with movements across the islands of the Pacific. Our speaker, Hyeayoung Choi, is a long-time feminist-peace activist and artist-scholar based in Jeju, currently finishing her PhD in Sociology at Jeju National University, and she will share her experiences organizing in the Jeju town of Gangjeong, a key site of militarization resistance of the Korean peninsula and the Asia Pacific region.

05/02/2023

The application for AASD's Undergraduate Leadership Committee is now open! We are looking for non-graduating AAS Majors/Minors and Pilipino Studies Minors to join us for the 2023-2024 academic year.

If you are looking to gain greater leadership skills, get to know faculty, and plan Department events, than make sure to apply by FRIDAY WEEK 6 (5/12) 11:59PM.

Please go to tinyurl.com/ApplyULC for more info and to access the application!!

05/01/2023

Thank you to everyone who came out to Spring Check-in 🌸🌸!! We hope you enjoyed the food, conversation, and to our lucky winners, the raffle prizes!

We'll see you at the next AASD event!!

04/25/2023

Please join us May 18th for a workshop for Nguyễn Thị Minh, regarding her work entitled "Women's Love in Antigone by Sophocles and The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du."

The paper will be circulated one week in advance, on May 11, and food will be provided!

Please RSVP at tinyurl.com/Workshop051823 to receive a copy of the paper.

04/21/2023

Save the dates! Bring a friend or two to these Asian American Studies Department and Asian American Studies Center sponsored events.

Tuesday, May 9th, 12:30 p.m.: Spring Fling with poet Angela Peñaredondo. Celebrate their new poetry book--nature felt but never apprehended

Saturday, May 20th: Airing History: a timeline installation. Participate in an installation project at Pilipino Workers Center in Historic Filipinotown

Tuesday, June 6th: Launch of Never Forget, an online exhibition of archival posters and oral histories from the transnational movement against martial law in the Philippines. This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Visit calhum.org

04/18/2023

Want to know what you can do with your major or minor in Asian American Studies? Then please join us on April 26th 6-7:30PM on zoom for our Alumni Career Panel! You will have the opportunity to learn about the different career pathways that Asian American Studies alumni have taken themselves and be entered for a chance to win one of three Squishmallows we are raffling off.

RSVP now at tinyurl.com/AASDAlumniPanel

04/18/2023

AASD invites you to our Spring Undergraduate Check-in!!

We will be catering yummy food from Rutt's Hawaiian Café🍗, hosting fun activities🤸‍♀️(such as scrapbooking, coloring, and mahjong), and raffling off a squishmallow😍 and The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen📚!

RSVP at tinyurl.com/AASDSpring2023 as soon as you can, and we'll see you there! Last day to RSVP is 4/26 at 11:59PM.

04/17/2023

Please join us May 10th for this book talk of “Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the American Dream.” Thank you to for sponsoring this event!

04/11/2023

Looking for an event for later today? Come join the editors and authors of the book “First-Generation Faculty of Color: Reflections on Research, Teaching, and Service”! Learn more about being a first gen student of color in higher education.
RSVP with the QR code!
Where: UCLA Career Center 200
Time: 5-7pm
Date: April 11th, 2023

04/06/2023

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Nour Joudah at the next event in our research talks series! 🥳🥳

When: April 14th, 2-3:30PM
Where: Rolfe Hall Rm 2125

Please refer to the flyer for more details and we hope to see you there!

03/24/2023

Interested in Filipinx American Studies? Attend this AAAS roundtable talk, Never Forget: Filipinx Americans and the Anti-Martial Law Movement, featuring our very own Karen Umemoto and Lucy Burns, along with other amazing scholars and thinkers within the field. Visit our website via link in bio to register.

Event Description: Throughout Ferdinand Marcos’s 21-year reign over the Philippines, resistance movements took shape, continued, and developed alongside and against the regime. While these movements formed in opposition to the brutality of Marcos’s rule (tortures, disappearances, and killings; political corruption and crony capitalism; censorship of the press; support for and advancement of imperialist programs), they also functioned as a network of political organizing that struggled against the long legacy of colonialism and racial capitalism.

This roundtable focuses on understanding the anti-martial law movements to discuss historical revisionism, knowledge formation, and Filipinx American political organizing. This session also introduces an upcoming online exhibit of rare posters from the transnational movement against Marcos's martial law, part of the ongoing archival process led by the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. The collection of posters and materials were collected throughout the 1970s and 1980s as part of anti-martial law political work in Los Angeles and California and transnationally in the Philippines.

Roundtable members include Xenia Tupas (Human rights activist and Migrante Los Angeles), Cathy Miraballes (Migrante Los Angeles), Joy Sales (Cal State LA, Malaya Movement Los Angeles), Josen Diaz (University of San Diego), with Karen Umemoto (Asian American Studies Center, UCLA). Moderated by Lucy Burns (UCLA).

03/20/2023

This Friday! The UCLA Asian American Studies Department will be hosting our second Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk by Dr. Alfred Flores, an Assistant Professor in the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies at Harvey Mudd College.

When: March 24th, 2023 🗓
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125 📍
Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM ⏰

03/20/2023

Join us this Friday, March 24th, for our next Pacific Islander Studies Research Talk, featuring Professor Alfred Flores!

When: March 24th, 2023
Where: Rolfe Hall 2125
Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PM

03/15/2023

Please join us for the virtual UCLA Book Launch for The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives! The 38 chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects, a mix of geographical and historical contexts, and a variety of storytelling modalities. This book launch will feature presentations from 8 of the volume's authors.

Check out the QR codes on the flyer for the Zoom registration info and open-access volume link!

This event is sponsored by the Asian American Studies Department, the Asian American Studies Center, the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of International Migration, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, the Asia Pacific Center, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Culture. Thank you to all of our sponsors!

02/27/2023

02/23/2023

Have space in your schedule for one more course or even 1 more unit? 🤔 Enroll in ASIA AM 88S - Oceanic Filipinx Studies: Currents of Anticolonial and Abolitionist Future in Hawai’i (Wednesdays 12-12:50pm in Kaufman Hall 153) for Spring 2023! ☀️🌊

This 1-unit, Pass/No Pass that meets once a week will dive into Filipinx-American history and culture in settler occupied Hawai’i, particularly focusing on issues of US empire and colonization in the Philippines and in diaspora through an oceanic approach. Read more about the class in the flyer above and in the Class Planner on MyUCLA.

If you have any questions about enrollment, please schedule an appointment with our Interim Academic Advisor Dean Dacumos. If you have any questions about the course content, please do not hesitate to reach out to the instructor Sean Sugai

02/22/2023

If you're interested in learning about the reclamation of foodways as a form of empowerment, identity, and community building for Asian Americans, enroll in AAS187B for Spring 2023!

For AAS Minors, this course will count towards either the Diversity or Multidisciplinary Approaches Upper Div requirements. If you have questions about enrollment or class planning, schedule an appointment with our academic advisor today!

02/22/2023

All smiles at this grad check in! 😁🥳 Thank you for coming and enjoying the food!! 🍽️

Stay tuned for more👀

02/15/2023

Interested in Asian American and Pacific Islander Labor Issues? Take Asian Am M119 in Spring 2023! Students will have the opportunity to get hands-on learning experience working with labor and community orgs in Los Angeles.

Enroll through MyUCLA today! If you have any questions about enrollment or class planning, please schedule an appointment with our Academic Advisor. More information is available on our website.

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