Welcome to Asian American Studies!

Greetings
from the Chair

The Department of Asian American Studies (ASAM) welcomes you to our community filled with curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and compassion. We currently have six  tenure-track faculty, twenty part-time lecturers, two staff members, and over 50 students minoring or majoring in Asian American Studies.  We offer over 25 different classes including history, cultural studies, civic engagement, and psychology.  We also offer spaces to learn more about specific communities such as Filipina/o Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, and Vietnamese Americans.  After graduation, several of our students continue onward to graduate school, or become leaders in community-based organizations, doctors, therapists, IT specialists, cyber security consultants, librarians, and small business owners.  The focus of our work is the historical, lived, and imagined experiences of individuals and communities with dynamic links to friends, family, and communities in Asia and the Pacific Islands. 
These are tremendously challenging times of possibility. I welcome you to our Department as we meet these challenges by fostering a community of intellectual and creative curiosity, and importantly, a sense of belonging. 
On behalf of the ASAM community, I invite you to explore and imagine community with us. 

Tu-Uyen Nguyen, Ph.D., M.P.H

Chair and Associate Professor, Asian American Studies Department